Tan Sri Datuk Tiong resides in Sibu, a town in Sarawak, of Borneo island that is part of Malaysia.
As of March 2018[update], with a net worth of about US$1.1 billion,[1] Tiong is ranked by Forbes as the 1,999th richest person in the world.
[6] They also operate The National Daily in Papua New Guinea and Ming Pao Holdings Ltd in Hong Kong.
[8] In 2018, Tiong stepped down from the position of executive chairman of MCIL to take up a non-executive, non-independent directorship in the group.
[10] Following his knighting Environmental groups around the world called for him to be stripped of his title, claiming that his success was built on the destruction of tropical forests by his company, Rimbunan Hijau.