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Clan power, MALAYSIAN BUSINESS
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Malaysian Business
06-16-2001
CHINESE clan associations in Malaysia can be a powerful economic
force.
Numbering more than 5,000, they are said to control business and
assets amounting to billions of ringgit. They own vast tracts of prime
land in Kuala Lumpur and other cities such as Johor Bahru, Penang, Ipoh
and Kuching. Some of these associations are virtually sitting on gold mines.
As these bodies are fragmented and spread throughout t...
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