Lee Kiang Chua

Lee Kiang Chua, also known as Lee Sing, Ho Bing Khai, Tan Choo Ngee and Khubinwa Nukhim is a Valroni businessman, who exports and sells rubber, gutta percha, spices, cocoa, tea, and coffee. He also sells bricks, leather, meat, timber, fruits, biscuits, soap, parboiled rice, and coconut oil in Valron. Lee has major shares in tin-mining, timber, cotton, shipchandlery, shipbuilding and building industries in Valron.

Early Life
Born as the sixth child out of sixty-three children in a timber shack in Kampung See Kio Hoe in Valron, Lee was born into a family which sold pigs and fowl for a living. Growing up, he witnessed thirty-seven of his siblings dying before 5, and about sixteen more dying before adulthood. Lee was arranged to be married at 13 and had nine children by the time he turned 18. Lee, inorder to support his growing family, got a job at the rubber plantation of Lim Takh Chor, a prominent businessman at the time.

About 3 years in, a strike has happened. Lee desperate to hold his job snitched on the rest, and became known as a lackey. Unfortunately the next year, Lim had killed himself because of the news that his son passed away. Lee managed to gain control of the company and extended to many other industries and became a millionaire. To boost his profits, he opened 3 provisions shops and got accepted to join the Yee Phing Hean Club, a social-cum-business millionaire's club located in Valron.