Oei Hong Leong

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Oei Hong Leong
Born21 March 1948 [1] [2]
Other namesPeter Oei
CitizenshipSingaporean
Occupation(s)Businessman, real estate developer
Children4
Parent Eka Tjipta Widjaja
Relatives Fuganto Widjaja (nephew)

Oei Hong Leong (born 21 March 1948), also known as Peter Oei, is a Singaporean billionaire businessman.

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Early life

Oei Hong Leong is a son of Indonesian Eka Tjipta Widjaja, who died in 2019. [2] He was educated in China, having moved there as a teenager, and lived there in the 1960s and 1970s. [3]

Career

According to Forbes , "the bulk of his wealth is derived from a corporate bond portfolio and real estate assets". [2]

Oei owns "prime property" in Vancouver, Canada, including the waterfront Plaza of Nations site, that he bought from Li Ka-shing in 1989 for CAN$40 million. [2] [3] The site has been renamed Expo Gardens and there are plans to build 1.4 million sq ft of residential property and 700,000 sq ft of commercial and retail property. [3]

In 2017, he founded One Belt One Net, a data centre company in Singapore, with a SIN$6.7 billion investment. [4]

Oei is the chairman of Chip Lian Investments, the Oei Hong Leong Foundation, and the Nei Xue Tang Museum. [4]

Personal life

Oei is married, with four children, and lives in Singapore. [2] He collects Buddhist art, and owns the private Nei Xue Tang Museum in Singapore, which has more than 50,000 pieces. [2] [4] [5]

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