This story has been updated with input from her children.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 15): Lim Siew Kim, daughter of the late Genting Group’s patriarch Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong, passed away on Thursday (July 14), aged 73. At the time of her passing, she held the non-executive chairman post of London-listed plantation company, Anglo Eastern Plantations PLC.

Born in 1948, Siew Kim was the third child of Goh Tong and his wife Puan Sri Lee Kim Hwa @ Lee Ah Sang. Goh Tong died in October 2007, aged 89, while Kim Hwa passed on about a decade later in August 2017, at 88.

The couple had six children, with the three eldest being daughters Lim Siew Lay, Lim Siew Lian, and Siew Kim, while the three youngest were sons Datuk Lim Tee Keong (died a bankrupt in April 2014), Tan Sri Lim Kok Thay (currently runs the Genting group), and Datuk Lim Chee Wah.

Siew Kim was married to the late Dick Chan Teik Huat, who passed away in 2019, aged 82. Teik Huat was the older brother of the late Chan Guan Seng, a veteran stockbroker and founder of Apex Equity Holdings Bhd, in which Siew Kim herself was known to have a substantial stake.

She met the Teluk Intan-born Teik Huat in 1968 when he was auditing the books of the then three-year-old Genting group. Teik Huat, a chartered accountant, was part of Kassim Chan & Co — subsequently Deloitte Kassim Chan — which he founded with the late Kassim Sulong in 1968. At the time, Siew Kim was helping to establish the first Genting Hotel complex.

The two married in the 1970s and founded Metroplex Bhd, and developed and built Wisma Central and Wisma Equity. The latter is known for its unique inverted pyramid architectural structure designed by the iconic architect Hiijas Kasturi.

The couple also developed and built The Mall and Putra Place — the first integrated shopping mall, office and hotel tower in Malaysia at the edge of the infamous Chow Kit area in 1987. Considered the largest shopping mall in Malaysia at the time, Siew Kim invited the legendary German-Canadian architect Eberhard Zeidler to design the complex.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, they established many housing estates and built affordable link, terrace houses and apartment complexes on scale. They also operated a casino in Subic Bay in the 1990s.

The couple was not only active in business; their philanthropy was also notable as they believed in charitable giving.

In 1983, the couple established the Dikim Foundation, which funded education scholarships and provided support and aid to those who needed them most, with the aim of creating a better life for the poor and less privileged, especially in the areas of skills acquisition, family relief support, and the empowerment of SME business.

During the recent pandemic, Siew Kim also donated the use of the Grand Seasons Hotel on Jalan Pahang to the Malaysian government in support of Covid-19 relief efforts.

The couple is survived by four children, namely, Chan Jau Chwen, Chan Tshiao Li, Chan Tshiao Miin, and Chan Tshiao Yunn.

Her funeral service will be held next Monday (July 18), at 10am, at the Xiao En Centre on Jalan Kuari Cheras, Kuala Lumpur.