A generation ago, a young Malaysian-Chinese journalist joined the staff of The Far Eastern Economic Review. His editor, Anthony Rowley, remembers Cheah Cheng Hye as “a very self-effacing and pleasant young man.” Today, Cheah is a hedge fund pioneer in China, the dutiful young employee of the early 1980s long since supplanted by an entrepreneurial financier and value investor who relishes his nickname — the Warren Buffett of Asia.
Cheah,
