DATUK Seri Cheah Cheng Hye’s (pic) rise from a former financial journalist to one of Asia’s prominent asset management pundits serves as a role model for those in his former profession aspiring for a stake in entrepreneurship.
He started off as a newspaper folder for the Malaysian newspaper The Star, where its editor later gave Cheah a reporter’s job, putting him on crime beat, which involved throwing him into the “not illegal” practice of tuning in to the police radio and trying to get to a crime scene faster than the police themselves.
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