KUCHING, Jan. 20 -- The founding managing director of KTS Group Datuk SeriLau Hui Kang was remembered as a pioneering entrepreneur whose vision and integrity helped shape Sarawak's plantation industry and economic development.

Tan Sri Datuk Amar Hamid Bugo, who first met Lau in 1984, recalled him as the first businessman to respond to the government's call to invest in rural plantation development.

"He was the very first person to participate in developing oil palm plantations, and the success of the sector today is due in large part to his pioneering spirit," Hamid said when delivering his remembrance speech at the 20th Memorial Anniversary of the late Datuk Seri Dr Lau Hui Kang, held at KTS Garden here on Monday.

He described Lau as ...