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Article: Succeeding in it the hard way
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- July 22, 2002
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Shyla Sangaran
New Straits Times
07-22-2002
Succeeding in it the hard way
Byline: Shyla Sangaran
Edition: Computimes; 2*
Section: Outlook People
LOOKING rather contented in his spacious office in Petaling Jaya is Richard Cheah Kim Ming. As executive director of SCS Cable.NET Sdn Bhd, he has managed to make a steady climb in the competitive information and communications technology (ICT) industry.
But as Cheah admits, success did not come easy. It was partly due to his folly of not paying much attention to his studies. Upon leaving school, he found his first job at a Japanese trading firm, processing bills and claims. Later in the early 1980s, he worked on his own doing sales most of time. It ...