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The property baron also donated generations,” she says. “The only
$5.6 million last year to fund the motivation we need is being part
expansion of a high school in of humanity.”
Shanwei. He previously gave $35
million to build a new campus for ● SUNSHINE lICHAUCo dE lEoN
his alma mater, Jiazi High School,
which opened in 2012
Wu Yuanxi, 61
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Chairman, Green City Group
Angel Locsin, Wu Yuangang
34 Chairman, hanking Group

Actor ChINA
PhIlIPPINes The Wu brothers, both property
tycoons, gave $49 million in June
After earthquakes hit Mindanao 2018 to build new campuses for
island in october, locsin donated two existing high schools in their
1 million pesos ($19,000) and hometown of Shanwei, in
distributed truckloads of relief Guangdong province. one of the
supplies to affected residents. schools, which opened in
locsin, whose mother was September, dates back to a
adopted by a family from the Chinese classics academy from
island, has long helped the region, the 18th century. Elder brother
which has been riven by sectarian Yuanxi previously helped build
strife for decades. during the seven other schools in the city,
2017 battle between the and in 2008 established the
Philippine army and Islamist Wu Yuanxi Charity Foundation,
rebels in Marawi, she joined the
suh Kyung-bae which has supported over 1,000
rural Missionaries of the poor students pursuing college
Philippines, donating and education
distributing food packets and 63
reforms. The bulk of their science was integral to school supplies to tens of ● JANE Ho
interests are now in property and innovation. Since 2017, the thousands of displaced victims.
golf courses. Since 2009 when he foundation has awarded 14 “These are urgent times when we
set up a scholarship fund, Kiem scientists grants of between 1.5 have to act as fast as we can to courteSy: heXaWare technoLoGieS
has given $900,000 in billion and 2.5 billion won. Suh save lives and rebuild
scholarships for students to pledged in 2016 to donate communities, and we don’t even Atul Nishar
attend his alma mater, Hanoi’s whatever was needed to bring the have to think why,” she says.
Thuy loi University. The duo has foundation’s total funding up to 1 locsin is best known for playing
given more than $20 million over trillion won. With those funds, the superhero darna in a 2005 TV
the past ten years toward causes foundation plans in 2021 to series and for her role in 2012’s
not only in laos and Vietnam, but increase the number of scientists one More Try, which earned her
also in Cambodia and Japan. who receive its grants to 25 a “best actress” in the 2013 Film
year; it aims to mark its 20th Academy of the Philippines
● JolIE TrAN
anniversary in 2036 by giving Awards. In 2017, she once
grants to 100 scientists. blogged: “You don’t need to wear
a costume to be a superhero.”
Suh ● JIHYUN PArK over the past decade, locsin has
donated as much as 15 million
Kyung-bae, 56 pesos to causes such as
Ceo, Amorepacific Group Gong Junlong, educational scholarships for
students, supporting the
souTh KoreA economic and political rights of
50 indigenous people, and ending
The Suh Kyung-bae Science Co-founder and vice violence against women and
Foundation in September awarded chairman, long Thanh Golf children. Her donations have also
10 billion won ($9 million), to be Investment and Trading helped roughly 500 families hit by
allocated over five years, to four some of the country’s largest Atul Nishar, 64
South Korean scientists for Joint-stock Company disasters: Tropical Storm ondoy in
research in neuroscience and ChINA 2009, Typhoon Habagat in 2012 Founder and chairman,
genetics. Suh established the and Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, one hexaware Technologies
foundation in 2016 with a Gong pledged $50 million in June of the deadliest storms on record, INDIA
personal endowment of 300 2018 to build the lufeng No 2 leaving 6,300 dead. locsin has
billion won. The head of South People’s Hospital in his hometown also inspired many of her millions
Korea’s largest cosmetics of Shanwei, Guangdong. The of social media followers to give After selling his stake in software
company, Suh inherited hospital, with 14 floors and a total back. “It’s like taking little steps services firm Hexaware
Amorepacific from his father Suh area of 57,000 square metres, will towards substantive, holistic Technologies in 2013 to Barings
Sung-hwan, who believed that house 500 beds when it opens. change for the future of the next Private Equity Asia for $200

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