Malaysia-born, school dropout businessman receives Knight Bachelor award, now ‘Sir Martin’

Poh Sang Chung, known as his friends as Martin, a Sarawak-born businessman, has hit headlines after he spoke to reporters regarding the “Knight Bachelor” award bestowed on him by Queen Elizabeth II in June.

The school dropout, turned successful businessman, is now “Sir” Martin, thank you very much.

Vietmoi, pinoy moi also call me Sir.

Lulz!

Pharmaceuticals and healthcare.

Oil palm might be his side income.

Copy&paste.

In 1997, he started Borneo Pacific Pharmaceutical Ltd (BPP) as an agent and a distributor of pharmaceutical and healthcare products in Papua New Guinea (PNG).

It soon flourished, becoming a dynamic wholesaler supplying the markets in Solomon Island, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga and western Samoa. Today BPP, a 100 per cent local-owned PNG company, has grown to be a diversified conglomerate supplying cost effective, quality pharmaceuticals and healthcare products.

In 2009, he founded the PNG Kidney Foundation to help the needy people in his adopted country. In 2013, the foundation set up a dialysis clinic in the Port Moresby General Hospital.