婚姻存摺

I think, this is a very warm article to share...:D

我的'婚姻存摺'是出嫁那天，媽媽遞到我手上的， 當時,我以為會是一大筆錢，打開一看發現只有1000元，

我用失望的眼神看著媽媽，媽媽卻笑著說:'這是我特意為你們辦理的'婚姻存摺'，
'以後每逢值得紀念的日子，都可以存一筆錢，等到老的時候,裡面除了錢,還有無限的幸福…'。

當時,我對母親這份心思不以為然,倒是丈夫記在了心上。

婚後沒多久!，他就先後存了兩個500元，一個是因為他升職了，第二個是因為我手術治愈出院。當時我嘴上笑他無聊，其實心裡甜蜜無比， 畢竟他把我的健康也當作一件讓他感到幸福的事。

沒過多久,我懷孕了,這一次,我足足往裡面存了2000元。

但很快，我們開始有了爭吵和冷漠﹔ 孩子出生帶來的快樂是短暫的，洗不完的尿布、喂不完的奶， 進一步加劇了我們感情的惡化而那本婚姻存摺像被遺忘了,寂寞地躺在抽屜角落，上面的數字久未見漲。

我們鬧離婚的時候，媽媽說:你們先把存摺上面的錢花光了再離吧， 雖然錢不多，但是你們共同的財產。於是，我第一次取了1000元，然後拎著幾件心儀已久的衣服離開商場時， 我又回去對售貨小姐說: ' 對不起,我不買了!請你退回我剛才付給你的錢。'

也許當時的局面窘迫極了， 但我腦海裡想到的是那1000元婚姻積蓄的來源: 他是個害羞的男人，但曾在街頭大聲地對我說'我愛你'，我為此存下100元， 他記得我的生日、鞋號、密碼及最怕的事，我為此在生日那天存下300元，他對女人有風度,也有距離，不給暗戀他的女下屬任何機會，我為此存下500元...> 啊，這1000元裡就有這麼多的幸福積累， 再看看婚姻存摺上的兩萬多元，我的眼睛忽然就有些濕潤起來。

晚上回到家，我把存摺交給他，說:'趕緊花吧，花光了好離婚。 第二天晚上，他把存摺遞到我手上，我打開一看，發現反而多了1000元。 他說:'那上面的每一元錢都記錄著我們走過的歷程。'

我第一次發覺原來是這樣的愛你，索性又存進了1000元，我們從此又和好如初了。

還是媽媽說得對，以愛情的名義為婚姻開個戶口， 把夫妻間所有快樂的、幸福的、浪漫的事，通通存進銀行！有了這本日積月累的婚姻存摺，即使是再貧窮的婚姻，也決不害怕透支。

這一生，你可能會遇到許多喜歡你的人。但是，你可能永遠都遇不到一個你真正愛的人。所以，一但遇到了，一定要好好的把握。

很多事情，錯過了就沒有了，錯過了就是會變的，緣份也是。:D

GUYS, Be This Perfect Boyfriend

When she walks away from you madly => Follow her
When she stares at your mouth =>smile...then kiss her
When she pushes you or hit's you =>hug her tight

When she starts cursing at you => say i love you
When she's quiet => hold her hand and ask what's wrong
When she ignores you =>act cute so she'll notice you

When she pulls away => Pull her back
When you see her at her worst => tell her you love her and she still looks amazing
When you see her start crying =>hold her...ask her what's wrong

When you see her walking => approach her..give a kiss on the cheek.
When she's scared => assure her you're not goin to leave her
When she lays her head on your shoulder =>tilt your head too..and hold her hand

When she steals your favorite hat =>let her keep it
When she teases you =>Tease her back and make her laugh
When she doesnt answer for a long time =>reassure her that everything is okay

When she looks at you with doubt =>Back yourself up
When she says that she likes you => she really does more than you could understand
When she grabs at your hands => Hold hers and play with her fingers

When she bumps into you =>bump into her back and make her laugh
When she tells you a secret =>keep it safe and untold
When she looks at you in your eyes =>dont look away until she does

When she misses you => she's hurting inside
When you break her heart =>the pain never really goes away

When she says its over =>she still wants you to be hers
When she repost this bulletin =>she wants you to read it

> - Stay on the phone with her even if shes not saying anything.
> - When she's mad hug her tight and don't let go
> - When she says she's ok dont believe it, talk with her

Because 20 yrs later she'll remember you:
> - Call her at 12:00am on her birthday to tell her you love her
> - Call her before you sleep and after you wake up
> - Treat her like she's all that matters to you.
> - Tease her and let her tease you back.
> - Stay up all night with her when she's sick.
> - Watch her favorite movie with her or her favorite show even if you think its stupid.
> - Give her the world.
> - Let her wear your clothes.
> - When she's bored and sad, hang out with her.
> - Let her know she's important.
> - Kiss her in the pouring rain.

> - When she runs up at you crying, the first thing you say is:
"Whose ass am I kicking babe?"

A Sacrifice of The Highest Degree

I do not know whether this is true story, but it earns my tears, that's y I share it in my blog.

卖一次淫，可以帮助一名失学儿童；当一回二奶，可以拯救一所希望小学… 别笑，看过你就不会笑了 看完这个帖子，无语了。我不知道该说什么，是社会错了，还是怎么了？

殷彩霞死了，死前她是一名妓女，更确切的说，她是一名老师。是当今中国当之无愧的老师。她用自己肮脏的身体，纯洁了孩子的心灵。 一个妓女死了，所有的孩子哭着参加了她的追悼会，学校的国旗为她降了一半! 这名年仅21岁的美女教师的追悼会上，校长翻开殷彩霞的日记，当着孩子们的面老泪纵横地朗读起来，她这样写道：卖一次淫，可以帮助一名失学儿童；当一回二奶，可以拯救一所希望小学…

殷彩霞出生在甘肃省某县的农村，在那个贫困的地方，村里的其他姑娘，无论美丑，早就到南方沿海城市去打工挣钱了，每到春节，她们都会打扮得花枝招展，大包小包的提回来。而殷彩霞高中毕业后没这么做，很多人都不理解，毕竟她的长相在村里是数一数二的。为此，她的父亲经常骂自己的女儿没出息。 听说当地一所民办小学缺老师，她主动跟学校要求免费代课。因为她中学成绩就很好，顺利的通过了学校的文化考核，成为一名真正的民办教师。

当殷彩霞第一次走进课堂的时候，孩子门哗然了，他们从未见过如此漂亮的女老师。从此，教室里常常洋溢着孩子们的欢声笑语。说是教室，其实也就一遮风挡雨的茅草棚，树杆埋成的墙，石板搭起的课桌，砖头码起的讲台，最值钱的就是那块用青砖砌起之后经打磨又刷了黑漆的黑板了，粉笔不够用，常以石灰与泥巴代替。就是在这样条件下，殷彩霞教会孩子们认识了几千个汉字，也教会了他们很多做人的道理.

一天夜里刮大风，茅草棚盖的学校屋顶被掀翻，黑板也被刮倒。第2天孩子们上学的时候各个不知道所措。校长去找县教育局长要钱结果无功而返。老校长晚上回来对殷彩霞说，局长说要你去才给。从来没有出过远门、也没有见过世面的殷彩霞怕把事情搞杂了，胆怯的步行10几公里去了县里。局长的办公室装修很豪华，墙上挂着很多锦旗，办公桌黑里透红，可以照见人影，上面立着一面小国旗，椅子是皮的，好象擦了鞋油一样光亮，比他的脑袋还要亮。局长见到殷彩霞，色咪咪聊了很多不着边际的话。直到天黑了，校长指着另外一扇门对她说，跟我过来拿钱。当殷彩霞走进去的时候，她只看到了一张床，也就是在那张床上，她失去了她的第一次，确切地说，是局长夺走了她的第一次。 床单上留下了处子的血，那血，比挂在局长办公室墙上的国旗还要红。 殷彩霞没有哭，因为，在眼前浮现的是孩子们没有教室上课而可怜的望着她的眼神！ 她连夜步行回到家里，没有跟任何人说起她的屈辱。

第二天，村民们自发来到学校，买了些材料把简陋的教室重新搭建起来了。可遇到刮风下雨的日子，依然上不了课。殷彩霞几次跟孩子们说，县里不久将会来人给他们买砖头盖一所牢固的教室，在这半年里，校长去县城找了局长十几趟，一分钱没拿到。只有他知道局长对殷彩霞做了些什么，但他却无能为力。新学期开始了，很少人交得起学费，能够坚持来校上课的孩子越来越少了，他们都跟着父母放羊去了。殷彩霞内心感到了疼痛，为这些失学儿童而疼痛。 当殷彩霞知道孩子们的希望已经化为泡影的时候，她脱光了自己的衣服，对着镜子暗暗发誓将用自己的身体去实现孩子们的上学梦。在家乡她知道那些花枝招展回来过年的姐妹们都是在外做批肉生意的。她明白那是一条赚钱的捷径。她洗了个澡，告别了校长、告别的父亲，告别了那间千疮百孔的茅草棚，扎着两条麻花辫走向了繁华的大都市。临走的时候，父亲笑了，校长哭了...

繁华都市的五颜六色并没有给殷彩霞带来一丝兴奋，她眼里始终浮现的是那间低矮茅草棚搭建的教室和孩子们渴望的目光。她走进了一家发廊，躺在了肮脏的床上，经受了人生的第二次蹂躏。那天，她在日记本上写着：局长连个嫖客都不如。殷彩霞是那帮姐妹里最节俭的女孩。她从来不化妆，也从来不穿那些性感的衣服，她总爱扎着麻花辫，但她的生意却总是最好的，她总是抢了其他妓女的饭碗，她也经常为此遭到妓女们的群殴。鼻青脸肿之后，她会走向另一家发廊，似乎只有在那粉色的灯光下她才可以看到希望。看着嫖客们一张张邪恶的嘴脸，她似乎看到了孩子们天真的笑容，但她从来就不曾因此而流泪，因为，她是个老师。

她将自己的收入除去生活费之后，全部寄给了校长。校长按照殷彩霞的意思将她寄回的一笔笔嫖资全都用于改善小学的教学条件上。有人问起那笔钱的来源，校长就说那是社会捐助的善款。 世上没有不透风的墙，有一天终于从邮局传来消息说那些钱是殷老师寄来的。

当地媒体得知这一消息后纷纷试图采访殷彩霞，但都被她婉言谢绝了，因为，她是个妓女。

有钱了，学校变了，第一个月，买了黑板，修了屋顶。第二个月，有了木制的课桌与板凳。第三个月，所有的孩子都有了课本。第四个月，所有的孩子都有了红领巾。第五个月，已经没有孩子光着脚丫上课了。 第六个月，殷彩霞回来了。当孩子们看到她的时候，争先恐后地叫她'殷老师……殷老师回来了……殷老师好漂亮啊……'。看到孩子们激动的笑脸，殷彩霞哭了，这半年里，多少的委屈和泪水，在她眼里都那么的有价值。

在家呆了几天，殷老师又踏上了南下的路。 第七个月，有了操场。 第八个月，有了篮球。第九个月，有了新铅笔。第十个月，学校有了自己的国旗，孩子们每天都能够在操场上看到国旗冉冉升起在第十一个月，一个房地产商坚持不用套，结果让殷老师意外怀孕了，打完胎后，殷老师成了房地产商的二奶。可那位包养她半年的房产商因为因近段时间深圳房价陡降而抛弃了她，一分钱没付。 殷彩霞终于疲倦了，她想回家，她想回到孩子们的身边，可她最大的梦想是为孩子们盖上一间砖砌的教室，再为孩子们买上两台电脑，因为这个梦想还没实现，所以她只能回头去苦苦哀求那位房产商。房产商说没钱，但可以为她介绍一笔大生意，一老外，愿意出三千美元买她一夜。想到几年前的那阵大风，殷彩霞拖着疲惫的身躯爬上了老外的床。她发誓，过了那个晚上她就回到她久别的家乡，回到她久别的课堂。

可就在那个晚上，殷老师被三个外国人强奸致死。死前她才刚过完自己21岁的生日。 殷老师死了，她没能完成她最后的夙愿，那就是给孩子们盖上一间砖砌的教室，再为孩子们买上两台电脑 一个妓女死了，悄无声息。深圳的天空还是那么蓝，官员们在豪华宴席上高谈阔论，道路上行驶的高级轿车散发着耀眼的光芒。兴奋的人们滔滔不绝地谈论着股票、房价和车市，还有电影、音乐和爱情。路边亲亲我我恋爱的小青年们为了一点小事要死要活。

可在此时，甘肃那个人们已经忘记了的小山村，正在举行只有学生、老师和数百位沉痛的村民的追悼会。 追悼会上，人们看到殷彩霞的一张黑白照片，照片里，她扎着两个麻花辫，笑得如此单纯。校长翻开殷彩霞的日记，当着孩子们的面老泪纵横地朗读起来，她这样写道：卖一次淫，可以帮助一名失学儿童；当一回二奶，可以拯救一所希望小学. 国旗降了一半, 或许，这是中国历史上，第一个为一个伟大的妓女而降的国旗。

中国人 VS 马来西亚华人

中国人 ：今晚你有空吗？我没空！
马来西亚华人 ：今晚你得不得空？我不得空

中国人 ：饼干受潮了…。
马来西亚华人 ：饼干'漏风'了…。

中国人 ：从上海去苏州要多少个小时？
马来西亚华人：从上海去苏州要几粒钟？

中国人 ：难道他不可以来吗？
马来西亚华人：你不给他不来啊？

中国人 ：周杰伦不喜欢穿内裤。
马来西亚华人：周杰伦不喜欢穿底裤。

中国人 ：我一向都是这样的
马来西亚人：我一路来都是这样的啦

中国人 ：我的手机掉进沟渠了。
马来西亚华人：我的手机掉进龙沟了。

中国人 ：这样你不是很不值得吗？
马来西亚华人：这样你'马'很不 '歹'？

中国人 ：你真是聪明！
马来西亚华人：你真是pan nai！(源自马来语pandai，聪明的意思)

中国人 ：你安静！
马来西亚华人：你diam diam！(源自马来语diam，安静的意思)

中国人 ：我要去银行取款。
马来西亚华人：我要去银行'按钱'。

中国人 ：为什么？
马来西亚华人：做么？

中国人 ：你很强~
马来西亚华人：你很够力~

中国人 ：明天也叫他一起去吧！
马来西亚华人：明天叫'埋'他一起去！

中国人 ：我很郁闷~~~
马来西亚华人：我很'显'（sien）啊~~~~（'显'比郁闷的境界更高）

中国人 ：你再说我就打你！
马来西亚华人：你再说我就hood你！（有点粗俗的）

中国人 ：你在说什么？
马来西亚华人：你在说sommok？

中国人 ：你不要令我丢脸~
马来西亚华人：你不要'下水'我~

中国人 ：真被你气到…。
马来西亚华人：被你炸到…。<----Mother of all words !!!

中国人 ：你别乱来~
马来西亚华人：你表乱乱来~

中国人 ：你很无聊
马来西亚华人：你很废

中国人 ：XX你
马来西亚华人：Kanasai（意思是像大便一样，骂人的话）

中国人 ：迫切
马来西亚华人：bek chek

中国人 ：我们一起吃这碗面~
马来西亚华人：我们'公司'吃这碗面~（源自马来语的kongsi，就是一起分享的意思）

中国人 ：我们结婚吧！
马来西亚华人：我们结'分'吧！（'婚'字受粤语影响，所以音不标准）

中国人 ：今天的天气很热~
马来西亚华人：今天的天气热到。。。。。。。。。。。。。('到'字要拉长，然后没有下文了）

中国人 ：哇!
马来西亚华人：哇捞weh!!!!

中国人 ：我受不了他！
马来西亚华人：我behtahan他！

My Salary Increment VS Petrol Price Surge

I started to work in May 2004, the same month and year the story of Malaysia's petrol price hike started. Now is about 4years since I started my job, here is some comparison of my salary VS petrol price :

Salary increment / 4years = 30.5%
Petrol Price increment /4years = 97.0%

Sad......

What Happens if U stay in the wrong company for 10years.

Where do u stand now ? I am STUPID !!! (if it is a wrong company that I am with now...)

When Security Guards become Mechanics.

This could be unluckiest day for her and I happened to be the 1st witness, it was abit frustrated to start with but it ended with laughters and sweats...:P

Here is the story :

530pm - I was enjoying air-cond while waiting to see one of the most cheerful customer of mine, together with me were 2 of my dear coleagues, I received a call from a even dearer coleague, a stress call for help, the story was about some car keys stucked in the car booth and can't open bla bla bla....

Out of curiosity (partly out of sincerity too), I Gave Up the urgency to meet this customer and walk down the stair case to the basement carpark to find out what was wrong with the key and booth thing...

To my surprise, I didn't see any key stucked in the car booth key hole, but a lady trying to be incredible hulk attempted to open a car booth with her Strong arms.... hey....the car shaked.... I actually wanted to laugh but I certainly didn't want to have those arms shaking my neck....

Then I finally been notified that the booth opener at the driver seat is faulty and she was using the car key to open the booth, but, this was the turning point, she ACCIDENTALLY (better put it this way) slammed the booth while the car keys were still relaxing inside it.... so, erm, there was no way to open the booth ....

I tried the handle at the driver seat again ( I know it was faulty, just trying my luck...), then I tried with my car key ( I know it won't work, my luck again....), both way failed, then, Might Chin's face crossed my mind, so I called him. (while she continued to shake the poor car....)

Mighty Chin is mighty, he gave some good technical phone support, we finally knew the alternative way to access the booth : Through the passenger seats!!! ( I know U pandai, u would have figured out 10minutes ago...)

With 1hand on the phone and 1 free hand, I removed the Seat part of the passenger seat, there came the 2nd challenge : to remove the the Back part of it, it was screwed with 2 nuts.... which I knew I don't have the right tool.... But then again, I tried my luck again with my booth, OK, confirmed I didn't have it with me ( see, I actually got, I just don't have it in my car....).

6pm - We finally gave up and decided to deliver the stuff that she was supposed to, 30minutes ago.

Our savier of the day was Ms. Audrey, she contacted the security guards to give us a hand, 2 macho SG appeared shortly after her call (Does she always do this ?). At the same time, our Kepoh coleague, Mr.Lim, finally called to show his concern and agreed to came back to assist us. WTF.....he actually LEFT us and then called to tell us that the passenger seats can be easily removed with bare hands (he thought he is better than Mighty Chin when comes to car's anatomy...). Fine, we asked to meet up at the crime scene...

Here comes the Tulan part, after showing the SG about the nuts thingy, they turned around and walked towards a room (well, I never noticed the existance of that room, but I did notice a surveillance camera was right infront of her car). Erm, the room located, just exactly behind of her car, it could ( I say, COULD) mean, one of the SG must have seen us struggling just now either through the CCTV or saw us from the room, and did nothing about it....gosh.....

Fine ! They got the right tool and to my surprise, it took them (3 of them, one each unscrewed the nut from both side, one supervised, oh, Mr.Lim just kepoh...) almost 10minutes to remove 2 , nope, actually it was 4 nuts, that was ....FAST...

630pm - The long lost car keys were back into the strong arms.... Mr.Lim is flooded with sweats, tough job to supervise a 4nuts duty.

Did I tell u that while we were on our way to deliver stuff, the handle of her working bag, dropped in the lift !!! I can't explain how funny was it, but, it was funny. LOL !

I planned to buy the car plate number.

IMF: Oil, food prices may further dampen growth

Source: asiaone news

Date: 23/05/2008

THE International Monetary Fund said it is sticking to world economic forecasts for now, but cautioned that much higher global prices for oil and food could dampen growth.

'Despite increasing oil prices, the broad contours of the fund's assessment of the global outlook remain unchanged at this stage,' IMF spokesman David Hawley told reporters on Thursday.

'Significantly higher oil and commodity prices could have a dampening effect on growth if prices remain at elevated levels,' he added.

His comments came as crude oil rose to a record above US$135 (S$184) a barrel on Thursday and Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) oil ministers said they could do nothing to lower oil prices, calling the market 'crazy'. By the end of the day United States crude settled down US$2.36 to US$130.81.

Turning to global credit markets, Mr Hawley said the ability of banks to raise capital was 'reassuring' although a protracted adjustment in financial sector balance sheets is still likely.

The Washington-based IMF has twice cut its growth forecast for the world economy this year - in January and again in April. In its last outlook in April, it warned the United States was headed for recession this year and put world growth at 3.7 per cent in 2008.

That was down from a forecast in October of growth of 4.8 per cent and a forecast in January of 4.1 per cent, as it tried to account for the world's fast-spreading credit turmoil.

Mr Hawley said the IMF would update its forecast again in July. Meanwhile, a team of IMF economists was currently in Europe assessing the euro-area economy and 'and they will be concluding their work in the next few days', he said.

Authorities in the United States and Europe accused the IMF in April of being overly pessimistic in its April outlook.

First-quarter gross domestic product growth released on Thursday for the 15 countries using the euro topped expectations in an initial estimate by the European Union's statistics office at 0.7 per cent quarter-on-quarter and 2.2 per cent annually.

Mr Jean-Claude Juncker, the chairman of euro zone finance ministers, said he did not believe the worst of the financial market crisis was over and Europe will continue to be affected by the problems, which sprang from sloppy lending practices in the US housing market.

A spokesperson for the European Commission, however, acknowledged that high oil prices could reduce euro-zone economic growth below the 1.7 per cent forecast by the Commission for this year.

On Wednesday, the US Federal Reserve slashed its US economic growth forecast for 2008 to between 0.3 per cent and 1.2 per cent, down from a prior forecast of 1.3 per cent to 2 per cent three months ago. The IMF believes US economic growth will skid from a subpar 2.2. per cent in 2007 to 0.5 per cent this year and 0.6 per cent next year.

Malaysia up 4 spots to 19th in Competitiveness Ranking

Source: The Star Online

Date: 24/05/2008

Malaysia’s moving up the competitiveness rankings is the result of improvements in hard data rather than perception surveys.

Malaysia has moved up four spots to 19th place with a score of 73.2 points out of 100 in the World Competitiveness Yearbook 2008 published by International Institute for Management Development (IMD) based in Switzerland.

Last year, Malaysia was ranked 23rd with 74.1 points.

At a seminar on “Updates on Malaysia’s Competitiveness 2008” yesterday, Malaysia Productivity Corp (MPC) director general Datuk Nik Zainiah Nik Abd Rahman said: “The overall improved performance on Malaysia was attributed largely to the improvement in the rankings for statistical (or hard) data, where 46 out of 127 of the statistical data recorded improvements in ranking.”

However, she added that the MPC was also concerned with perception data, given that in today’s environment “perception was reality.”

The IMD ranking on perception data for Malaysia found that 43 out of 118 of recorded data showed an improvement. Perception data has a lower weightage in IMD’s yearbook rankings.

Going forward, MPC’s focus was on improving government efficiency in providing services to the public “especially to the private sector,” Nik Zainiah said.

MPC director Chan Kum Siew told the seminar said that in percentage terms Malaysia recorded a 35% improvement in statistical data rankings and also 35% improvement in perception data.“

Business efficiency showed the majority of improvement in rankings in the perception data,” she added.

Chan identified several challenges facing Malaysia, including achieving a customer-centric, innovative and proactive public service; nurturing innovative and resilient small and medium enterprises, and leveraging on public-private partnership to move the economy up the value chain.

Malaysia, she added, also needed to raise the innovative and creative capacity of human capital and enhance the scientific and technological infrastructure to meet the needs of a competitive economy

Robert Kuok Continues To Top Malaysia's Rich List

Source: Bernama.com

Date: 22/05/2008

Malaysian tycoon Tan Sri Robert Kuok continues to maintain his lead position as Malaysia's richest man in the latest Forbes Asia's rich list.

According to Forbes Asia, Kuok, 84, who has many businesses, including Hong Kong property and media interests, and most notably palm oil giant Wilmar, increased his net worth from US$2.4 billion last year to hit US$10 billion.

The latest ranking list also saw Berjaya Corp's Tan Sri Vincent Tan joining the billionaires' club, Forbes Asia said in a news release here.

There are 10 billionaires in the list this year, one more than last year.

Tan, who rose from 14th to ninth position, has a net worth of US$1.3 billion, up nearly US$1 billion from last year. Forbes Asia said Tans company, Berjaya Corporation, had bucked the trend with its stock price up nearly three-fold over the past 12 months.

Tan reigns over a vast US$4 billion -- combined sales -- network of enterprises spanning industries such as gaming, media, telecom, consumer products and retail as well as real estate.

Still in second place is Ananda Krishnan who heads telecom company Maxis. But his wealth dipped to US$7.2 billion, which is US$200 million less than last year.

The third richest in the list is IOI Corporation's group executive chairman Tan Sri Lee Shin Cheng who was ranked fourth last year but as the oil palm plantation giant soared in value, his wealth rose from US$1.6 billion to US$5.5 billion, Forbes Asia said.

The highest new entry is Puan Sri Lee Kim Hua, widow of renowned gaming tycoon Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong who was ranked third last year but died in October. She and her family are worth US$3.4 billion and ranked fifth, even as son Tan Sri Lim Kok Thay, who runs Genting, is listed on his own with US$345 million, putting him in 15th place.

Lee is one of three women on the list alongside Selangor Properties' chairman Puan Sri Chong Chook Yew, ranked 24th (US$245 million), and daughter of the Sultan of Perak, Raja Datuk Seri Eleena Raja Azlan Shah, ranked 35th (US$150 million).

Among the newcomers is Datuk Nazir Razak, group chief executive of CIMB Group and the youngest son of second Prime Minister, the late Tun Abdul Razak Hussein. Nazir managed to scrape into the 40th position as the last richest Malaysian in Forbes Asia's top 40 with a net worth of US$100 million. The collective wealth of the top 40 is US$46 billion, up US$3 billion from last year.

While 16 people managed to add to their wealth, 18 saw their net worth slipped, with seven of them losing at least a quarter of their worth.

Tan Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary, the richest Malay tycoon and a billionaire, dropped one position from seventh to eighth after his net worth was reduced by US$200 million to US$1.8 billion.

The Malaysia Rich List appears in the June 2nd issue of Forbes Asia.

The top 10 richest in Malaysia are:

1) Robert Kuok, US$10 billion.

2) Ananda Krishnan, US$7.2 billion.

3) Lee Shin Cheng, US$5.5 billion.

4) Teh Hong Piow, US$3.5 billion.

5) Lee Kim Hua & family, US$3.4 billion.

6) Quek Leng Chan, US$2.4 billion.

7) Yeoh Tiong Lay & family, US$2.1 billion.

8) Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary, US$1.8 billion.

9) Vincent Tan, US$1.3 billion.

10) Tiong Hiew King, US$1.1 billion.