PETALING JAYA: Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong, founder and honorary life president of Genting Group, passed away at 11.20am Tuesday at the Subang Jaya Medical Centre.

The tycoon, who turned 90 in April this year, was renowned for his vision in transforming Genting Highlands from an unexplored hilltop to one of the world's most successful casino resorts.

The fifth child in a family of seven children, Lim migrated from China's Fujian province in 1937 at the age of 19 with only a small suitcase and US$175.

The idea of a hill resort was chanced upon by Lim amidst the crisp air of Cameron Highlands in 1964. Lim was then working on a hydro-electric power project at the popular hill resort, patronised mostly by British colonials seeking cool refuge from the tropical heat, when he foresaw a prosperous Malaysia of the future desiring a cool mountain holiday resort within the reach of all Malaysians.

To date, Genting Highlands Resort has five hotels and two apartment blocks at the hilltop and Awana Genting Highlands Golf and Country Resort.

The company, founded in 1965, has since expanded and diversified from its initial hotel and resort activities to plantations, properties, paper manufacturing, power generation, oil and gas, electronic commerce and information technology development under Genting Group.

According to Forbes Asia, the Genting Group founder was third richest in the country with a net worth of US$4.3bil (RM14.6bil).

Lim is survived by wife Puan Sri Lee Kim Hua, and their six children and 19 grandchildren.

The 200th anniversary of the arrival in China of the first Protestant missionary, Robert Morrison, who contributed much to western knowledge of Chinese, is being marked by a display in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Robert Morrison (1782–1834, right in photo), from Northumbria in northern England, arrived in the port of Canton on 7 September 1807, commissioned by the new London Missionary Society first to learn Chinese, and then to make a Chinese translation of the Bible.

Despite Qing law preventing foreigners from learning Chinese, the East India Company policy excluding missionaries, and opposition from Portuguese Catholics who were already working in the country, Morrison mastered the language with help from faithful Chinese assistants. In 1809 he became official interpreter for the East India Company alongside his mentor, Sir George Staunton (1781–1859), the only other Englishman who knew Chinese at the time. Though often critical of the Company and of British government policy (especially its attitude towards the opium trade), Morrison was for 25 years central to Sino-British relations.

Morrison saw few results from his missionary endeavours. However, he completed a Chinese Bible (with William Milne) in November 1819, founded the Anglo-Chinese College in Malacca, Java, in 1818 (the basis of the later University of Hong Kong), and published the first Chinese–English dictionary in 1823. Morrison died in Canton on 1 August 1834 and was buried in the Old Protestant Cemetery in Macao.

The display in the Bodleian Library Exhibition Room includes Morrison’s Chinese New Testament (published in separate parts), his Chinese-English Dictionary, and one of the many tracts (on theological or social topics) which he printed and distributed.

Robert Morrison: pioneer of Chinese Protestantism and British sinology, a display in the Bodleian Library, continues until 11 August 2007. Open Monday to Friday 9 am to 5 pm, Saturday 9 am-4.30 pm. Admission free. The display occupies one case in a larger exhibition, Italy’s Three Crowns: Dante, Boccaccio and Petrarch; see www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/2007_june_27/2007_june_19.

Picture: The Rev Robert Morrison, DD [right], and his assistants in the translation of the Bible into Chinese: engraving by W. Holl from a painting by G.G. Chinnery, 1888.

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