Article: Mum set him on the right path

Sarban Singh
New Straits Times
08-11-2004
Mum set him on the right path
Byline: Sarban Singh
Edition: The City Advertiser; 2*
Section: People

THIS is the story of a small-town boy whose love for his mother made him the youngest Malaysian to sit on the board of a company listed on the Tokyo stock exchange. SARBAN SINGH writes.

MANIMARAN Anthony was on a bus heading home to Kuala Pilah when he saw his mother walking along the road, carrying a hot bucket of tar.
She was struggling to keep up with the instructions of the mandor (supervisor) and her emaciated frame was testimony to the years of toil she had suffered.

Somehow, Manimaran, then 16, had never noticed how weather- beaten his mother ...

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