IPOH – THE CITY OF MILLIONAIRES Ir Loh Ban Ho with a family photo of the first two generations of...

He came up the Kinta River in 1892 and started in a tin-mine kitchen. A shipwreck, a fortune teller and a brother's death later, Ipoh named a road after him.

He arrived in 1899 and started out as someone else's clerk. He ended up planning names for great-grandchildren he would never meet. One of them would carry an Oscar home to Ipoh.

His family sold Hondas on Kampar Road for half a century. He steered the business through a crash that wiped out most of Malaysia's Honda dealers. Then he found a book his grandfather's brother had written, and built a museum. This is where YLCO Families begins.

Sir Hugh Low spent nearly thirty years on Labuan, passed over for the top job. In 1877 he became British Resident of Perak, and the first rubber trees in Malaysia grew in his garden at Kuala Kangsar. For almost twenty years nobody wanted them. Then rubber changed Malaya, and Ipoh named Hugh Low Street after him.