LABUAN: Labuan\u2019s prominent businessman Datuk Seri Peter Kong, the founder of the Ro-Ro ferry service died early this afternoon at the Labuan Nucleus Hospital. He was 65.\u00a0
\nHis sister Rozi Kong said Peter died of an infection at 12.4opm. He has three sons, including a doctor. Peter\u2019s sister Angela Kong said her brother\u2019s remains would arrive at his son\u2019s house in\u00a0Taman Fulliwa tomorrow afternoon and after funeral services, would be buried at the Buddhist cemetery near\u00a0Taman Fulliwa on Wednesday (Feb 1)\u00a0at 2 pm.
\nPeter was a prominent tycoon in this duty-free-island, having pioneered the most important Labuan\u2019s sea transport of roll on-roll off (ro-ro) ferry service that served the Labuan-Menumbok-Labuan route for over a decade via Labuan Ferry Sdn Bhd.
\nHe was one of the pioneers of MCA in Labuan and later became Labuan MCA youth leader (in the 1990s), and later joined Sabah-based party UPKO as Labuan UPKO advisor (2017), before moving\u00a0to Parti Harapan Rakyat Sabah (as deputy president [Chinese quota], and he was known to have been vocal for many public issues.
\nPeter bought the oldest hotel in Labuan,\u00a0Waterfront Hotel (formerly owned by Prominent businessman Tan Sri Chua Ma Yu\u2019s family), and later named the hotel as Billion Waterfront Resort.
\nTo journalists in Labuan and Sabah, he was the friendliest businessman and normally entertained\u00a0newsmen whenever they had\u00a0news coverage assignments on the\u00a0island.
\n–BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LABUAN: Labuan\u2019s prominent businessman Datuk Seri Peter Kong, the founder of the Ro-Ro ferry service died early this afternoon at the Labuan Nucleus Hospital. He was 65.\u00a0 His sister Rozi Kong said Peter died of an infection at 12.4opm. He has three sons, including a doctor. Peter\u2019s sister Angela Kong said her brother\u2019s remains would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":18226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18227,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18225\/revisions\/18227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}