Syed Mokhtar Albukhary — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Syed Mokhtar Albukhary, the Malaysian tycoon and philanthropist; it gives his birth on 12 December 1951 at Alor Setar, Kedah, his family's roots in Hadramawt, his rise from the rice trade to the MMC and DRB-HICOM groups and Bernas, and his founding of the Albukhary Foundation in 1996 on Islamic values and of the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia in 1998.

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