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Leong Fee is the Hakka name for Liang Pi Joo ( 1857  1912 ), a worker from Guangdong Province in ___MASK75___ who emigrated to Malaya in 1876 . He arrived in Penang and , half a year later , moved to Perak where he began to make his fortune in tin . He was a tin miner , businessman , a visiting Justice for Kinta ( 1892 ), the first Chinese Member of the Federal Legislative Council ( 1909 ) a Penang state senator , a member of the Perak State Council , a Chinese Vice - Consul to Penang ( 1902 to 1908 ) and a philanthropist . He married the daughter of millionaire - philanthropist Hsieh Yung - kuan , the Chinese Vice - Consul to Penang before him . He was a member of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts , Manufactures and Commerce . The United East Indian Company ( or Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie in modern spelling ; VOC ), referred to by the ___MASK31___ as the Dutch East India Company , was originally established as a chartered company in 1602 , when the Dutch government granted it a 21 - year monopoly on the Dutch spice trade . It is often considered to have been the first multinational corporation in the world , and it was the first company to issue stock . The largest and most valuable corporation in history , it possessed quasi - governmental powers , including the ability to wage war , imprison and execute convicts , negotiate treaties , strike its own coins , and establish colonies . Cheong Fatt Tze or Tjong Tjen Hsoen ( 1840  1916 ) was a Chinese businessman and ___MASK79___ . He was a powerful Nanyang industrialist and a first - class Mandarin in the Manchu government ; he was made Consul - General in Singapore and economic advisor to the Empress Dowager . The Penang Chinese Town Hall was established in 1881 . Chung Keng Quee was the single largest individual donor towards the founding of the town hall and was a prominent president serving from 1881 to 1883 . ___MASK46___ ( or ; Indonesian : ), officially the Republic of ___MASK46___ , is a unitary sovereign state and transcontinental country located mainly in Southeast Asia with some territories in Oceania . Situated between the Indian and Pacific oceans , it is the world ' s largest island country , with more than seventeen thousand islands . At , ___MASK46___ is the world ' s 14th - largest country in terms of land area and world ' s 7th - largest country in terms of combined sea and land area . It has an estimated population of over 260 million people and is the world ' s fourth most populous country , the most populous Austronesian nation , as well as the most populous Muslim - majority country . The world ' s most populous island of Java contains more than half of the country ' s population . The Deli Bank was the first Chinese bank in ___MASK46___ . It was founded in Medan , ___MASK46___ , in 1907 by the Tjong brothers , Tjong A Fie , ( 1860 - 1921 ) and Tjong Yong Hian ( 1850 - 1911 ), Mandarin capitalists from Mei Hsien , Guangdong , ___MASK75___ , who had come over originally to recruit and supply Chinese coolies for plantation workers . Also involved at this time were Cheong Fatt Tze who had entered the region from ___MASK75___ , through ___MASK46___ where he built his fortune but who was by that time , Vice - Consul for ___MASK75___ , in Penang . Hsieh Yung - kuan was the fourth founding director of the bank . The ___MASK84___ ( or ___MASK71___ East Indies ; ) was a Dutch colony . It was formed from the nationalised colonies of the Dutch East India Company , which came under the administration of the Dutch government in 1800 . Cheah Meng Chi (  ) or Cheah Choon Seng or Tjia Tjoen Sen (  ) or Hsie Yung Kuang (  ) , a Hakka from Meixian , Guangdong , ___MASK75___ , was Chinese Vice Consul in Penang from 1895 -- 1903 and from 1906 - 1907 . He was a founding director of the Deli Bank in Medan , Indonesia . Born in 1848 in Pontianak , Dutch East Indies . He was a contractor of provisions and foodstuffs to the Dutch Government for eight years before moving to Kota Raja or Banda Acheh on the east coast of Sumatra where , in addition to those existing contracts he obtained fresh contracts for the construction of railroads and for opium and other revenue farms . He was appointed Lieutenant ___MASK75___ , which he held for twenty - one years after which he was made Captain ___MASK75___ . The Dutch Government conferred on him the Gold Star for `` Trouw en Verdienste '' and with a gold medal for outstanding contributions to them . Around 1898 he relinquished management of his business interests there , handing them over to the management of his attorney , Mr . Leong Mok On , and moved to Penang where he lived at No . 8 , Leith Street . He was appointed Chinese Vice - Consul to Penang , a position that was taken up by his son - in - law , Mr . Leong Fee , upon his resignation . He had interests in the Tambun mines in Perak and the Bentong mines near Kuala Lumpur . He was a member of the Penang Chinese Town Hall committee . He married the daughter of the Mayor of Pontianak , Mr . Chong Hi . Together with Cheong Fatt Tze , Leong Fee (  , Zhang Yao Xuan (  , and Foo Choo Choon (  ) , he founded the Chung Hua School (  or  , the first modern Chinese school in Malaya teaching in Mandarin . Cheah Choon Seng died on 4 February 1916 . Capitan ___MASK75___ Chung Keng Quee ( 182113 December1901 ) was the founder and administrator of modern Taiping in Perak , ___MASK12___ . Appointed " Capitan ___MASK75___ " by the British in 1877 , he was a millionaire philanthropist and known as an innovator in the mining of tin . He was involved in many other industries including farming , pawnbroking and logging . He was respected by both Chinese and European communities in the early colonial settlement . His survival in the chaotic era owes much to his standing as leader of the Hai San , a Chinese secret society in British Malaya during the time of the Larut Wars ( 1862  73 ). a position he is said to have held till early 1884 although in all probability he continued to remain a leading member . The old fort at Teluk Batu was built by him to safeguard the mine that he opened there . He was a member of the Commission for the Pacification of Larut and sat as one of six members of the Advisory Perak State Council appointed by the British . Commenting on the role of the Perak Council , Richard James Wilkinson wrote , " It is for the reader , in the light of subsequent events , to judge how far the Councillors were right or wrong , and to see for himself who really did the pioneer work of building up the prosperity of Perak . In the published accounts of British rule in Malaya , sufficient prominence has not always been given to the efforts of these early pioneers ; the reaper , intent on his own work , is apt to forget the man who sowed . These Council Minutes are the record of the work of the sowers . A study of that record will show how much the State owes to Sir Hugh Low and to his fellow - Councillors , especially Raja Dris ( the present Sultan ), Sir William Maxwell , and the Chinese towkays , " Ah Kwi " [ Chung Keng Quee ] and Ah Yam ." Early history . Third among his father ' s five sons , Chung Keng Quee was born into a peasant Hakka family in Xin Cun (  ) village , Cheng Sheng ( Zengcheng  ) county of Guangdong province , ___MASK75___ . At the time of his death the Perak Pioneer & Native States Advertiser VOL VIII Taiping Saturday 14 December 1901 reports : "" Precise information as to the date of his arrival in Perak is difficult to obtain but it is apparently certain that he has passed over forty - five years in the State before he retired to Penang ."" It is believed that in 1841 , he journeyed from ___MASK75___ to British Malaya in a junk , sent by his mother , Madam Lai , to look for his father , Chung , Hsing Fah ( Chung , Xingfa  ; Hakka : Chang Hin Fatt ). He had left his wife ( Madam Lin ) in ___MASK75___ to look after his elderly mother . He is thought to have been 20 years of age at that time . Chung Hsing Fa , had come to Malaya as an indentured labourer during a time of great turbulence in ___MASK75___ to make a living and support his family in ___MASK75___ ( see First and Second Opium Wars and Taiping Rebellion ). After some time when Madam Lai received no news from her husband she sent Chung Keng Seng (  /  ), her second son . Still receiving no news , she then sent Keng Quee . When Keng Quee arrived in Perak , he discovered that both his father Hsing Fa and his brother Keng Seng were by that time well established in business . In fact , Keng Seng was so popular he was known as Lui Kong Seng ( literally Thunder God Seng ). His father , Hsing Fa was one of the early leaders of the Tseng Lung association on King Street . Keng Quee entered the mining business which his father and brother were engaged in . By 1860 he controlled the Penang - based Hai San Secret Society as well as the Larut tin - fields the Hai San were associated with . Information about his career before that time is generally unknown . ___MASK72___ , officially the Republic of ___MASK72___ , and often referred to as the " Lion City " or the " Little Red Dot ", is a sovereign city - state in Southeast Asia , and the world ' s only island city - state . It lies one degree ( 137 km ) north of the equator , south of the southernmost tip of continental Asia and peninsular ___MASK12___ , with Indonesia ' s Riau Islands to the south . ___MASK72___ ' s territory consists of a diamond - shaped main island along with 62 other islets . Since independence , extensive land reclamation has increased its total size by 23 % ( 130 km ), and its greening policy has covered the densely populated island with tropical flora , parks and gardens . Penang is a Malaysian state located on the northwest coast of Peninsular ___MASK12___ , by the Strait of Malacca . It has two parts : Penang Island , where the capital city , George Town , is located , and Seberang Perai ( formerly " Province Wellesley "), on the Malay Peninsula . Penang is bordered by Kedah to the north and the east and Perak to the south . Perak ( Jawi :  ; chinese :  ) also known by its honorific , Darul Ridzuan , or " Abode of Grace ", one of the 13 states of ___MASK12___ , is the fourth largest state in the country . It borders Kedah at the north ; Thai Yala Province to the northeast ; Penang to the northwest ; Kelantan and Pahang to the east ; Selangor to the south , and the Straits of Malacca to the west .