ON SOME days when Lee Hee Hang looks out of his 32nd floor office, which has a close-up view of the Empire State Building, he wonders how a small town boy from Raub could rise to become a partner in one of the biggest accounting and management firms in the world.
Lee, 41, a partner of Ernst & Young, which has over 5,000 employees in its New York Headquarters, still remembers the days when he used to help his parents tap rubber in their smallholding farm. Their house had no indoor plumbing, and they used carbide lamps at night.