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On Succession

•   The Business Times, “Higher bar, talent crunch complicate Singapore SMEs’ succession plans,” by Therese Soh, April 28, 2026.

• Bloomberg, “Billionaire doctor in boardroom key to OCBC’s new CEO Tan Tech Long ambition,” by Chanyaporn Chanjaroen, Joyce Koh, and Anders Melin, February 5, 2026.

•  The Straits Times, "OCBC’s billionaire owners seen posing challenge for new CEO Tan Teck Long,” by Lianhe Zaobao, February 5, 2026.

• The Business Times, “South-east Asia’s family conglomerates at a turning point: New growth, fresh talent key to keeping their edge,” by Sharanya Pillai, November 28, 2025.

• CNA, "Built from sweat, stalled by succession: What happens when Singapore's SMEs have no one to take over the helm," by Amanda Yeap, November 21, 2025.

• The Straits Times, "When silence isn’t golden: Succession challenges loons for Asia’s wealthy families," by Chong Poh Kwan, November 16, 2025.

• The Straits Times, “Skipping a generation: Lessons from the late Nippon Paint tycoon’s inheritance play,” by Cheong Poh Kwan, October 25, 2025.

• The Business Times, “Skipping a generation: Lessons from the late Nippon Paint tycoon’s inheritance play,” by Cheong Poh Kwan, October 27, 2025 

• The Financial Times, The rise of the Asian entrepreneur, by Emma Boyde, May 8, 2015.

• The Economist, Asian Values: In the world’s most dynamic region, family companies occupy the commanding heights of capitalism, a special issue on the Power of Families & Dynasties, April 18, 2015.

• Campden Family Business, interviewed for the article on dealing with controlling parents, by Rashmi Kumar, May 2014.

• The Financial Times, Succession lessons sought for Asian family businesses, by Emma Boyde, June 2, 2013.

• The Financial Times, “Japan plutocrats succeed with sons-in-law” by Jonathan Soble, February 12, 2009.

• The Nation (Thailand), “Family Succession: Thai Marry for Money not Love,” by Pichaya Changsorn, January 21, 2009.

• The Financial Times, “A word if caution for ambitious westerners” by William Barners, March 5, 2009.

• The Straits Times (Singapore), “Success isn't always a 'family affair,'” March 7, 2011.

• The Straits Times, Money (Singapore), “Advice to Family Firms: Plan Your Succession Well,” May 5, 2011.

On Family Business Groups in Thailand

• Bloomberg, “Red Bull Family's Wealth Boom Tops All Asia Dynasties,” by Yoojung Lee and Pathom Sangwongwanich, March 28, 2023.

• Bloomberg, Meet the Billionaires of Thailand's Red Bull Fortune, by Sterling Wong, October 25, 2016.

• Bloomberg, Thai Brothers Emerge as Billionaires With CP Group Stakes, by Netty Ismail, June 13, 2014.

• Bloomberg, Cockfighting Thai Billionaire Makes Top Chinese Purchase, December 11, 2012, by Supunnabul Suwannakij and Sanat Vallikappen. 

On listed firms on Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX)

• The Business Times (Singapore), “Family firms 'need to have better governance’” by Joshua Tan, 21 March 2012.