IOI Group’s Tan Sri Lee Shin Cheng is bullish on palm oil’s propects.


By LI WONG

IOI Group’s executive chairman Tan Sri Lee Shin Cheng — LOW BOON TAT/The Star

IOI Group’s executive chairman Tan Sri Lee Shin Cheng talks about his personal journey as an industry veteran and shares some insight into the palm oil sector.

HE calls the oil palm trees his “girlfriends”, bought over the company that had earlier rejected his job application and knows the plantation business inside out.

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