Lotus Group boss honoured

KUALA LUMPUR: In primary school, he had fun selling pencils, rubbers and sharpeners to his classmates, indicating clearly that business was in R. Doraisingam Pillai’s blood. 

When he was 15 and studying at St Xavier’s Institution, he took the RM500 that he had saved from the profits he had made over six years, bought a fishing boat and hired a fisherman to catch fish. When the boat came in, he sold the catch along the shores of Penang in the evening.