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The son of one of Malaysia’s wealthiest tycoons has finished selling the $360-million Trump Tower and is now preparing rezoning applications for the rest of his family’s Vancouver landholdings.

After being chosen by his dad, Tony Tiah Thee Kian, to invest hundreds of millions in B.C. property, 36-year-old Joo Kim Tiah automatically became one of Vancouver’s key development players as head of the Vancouver property development firm, the Holborn Group.

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While working from Asia, the young developer responded to emailed questions from The Province about his vision for important Vancouver sites, how much foreign wealth will pour into Trump Tower condos and his understanding of the criminal probe his father faced years ago in Malaysia.

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In January, Joo Kim was named CEO of TA Global Bhd, the property arm of TA Enterprise Bhd, the company his father built. It was the culmination of a plan announced in 2009 — according to an article posted onTA Enterprise’s website— when Tony Tiah re-emerged years after his conviction in a stock-fraud probe to pass the torch to his descendants.