Download e-book for iPad: Dare to be Different:The Albert Hong Story by Albert Hong

In this booklet, Dr Albert Hong tells his personal story.

Today, he's in demand in his box, as chairman of RSP Architects Planners and Engineers (Pte) Ltd. His lifestyles all started eighty years in the past, in a humble clinical health center in Neil street, Singapore. within the years among, he has completed luck in company in accordance with labor and excessive aspirations. Albert Hong and RSP have grown as Singapore has grown, overcoming a few of the demanding situations linked to a tender, fast-developing nation.

Albert Hong's early years have been overshadowed by means of battle and career. yet he proved that adversity could be a springboard for success. His mom stored adequate to finance his schooling on the prestigious Raffles establishment, after which extra schooling within the united kingdom, the place he knowledgeable as an architect.

In 1964 Albert Hong joined Raglan Squire & companions as an affiliate. He confirmed himself in a occupation formerly ruled by way of expatriates, fought confirmed notions of what an architectural perform may possibly do, and verified the price of an entrepreneurial spirit. Over the following 50 years, he remodeled the enterprise. RSP has turn into one of many greatest, so much winning and Most worthy architectural agencies in Southeast Asia.

Among his specific achievements is to set up the company outdoor Singapore. significantly, he made up our minds to go into the India marketplace, in defiance of traditional knowledge and the recommendation of so much of his colleagues. occasions have proved him correct. For RSP, India is a giant luck story.

For Dr Hong, luck brings duties. He has donated time and clever assistance to varied public our bodies. Like Singapore, he believes that each person merits an opportunity to understand his or her abilities and talents. between many charitable contributions, he has consistently given beneficiant aid to academic associations and deserving individuals.

This is a really human good fortune tale, more likely to encourage readers making plans their careers. it truly is bound to curiosity all these attracted to the actual improvement of Singapore, and the contributions of architects, planners, financiers, builders and different professionals.