Unless you live under a rock, you’d have probably heard of Paul Lim, the Malaysian property agent under fire for belittling food delivery riders and private-hire drivers in a livestream video.
Many people were triggered at him because the offensive video came from his Facebook account, but if you’ve watched the video, the main culprit was actually his guest, entrepreneur Maggie Fong.
Here’s the snippet of the video that has caused an uproar:
You might know that Paul has been suspended by his company and promised to be a food delivery rider to “experience their hardship”, but how about Maggie?
Well.
Who is Maggie Fong?
Maggie Fong is an entrepreneur who supposedly run various businesses, one of which is Wekah Berhad, a platform that helps other entrepreneurs succeed, and another a Hakka-themed homestay in Penang.
Wekah Berhad’s website is now “under maintenance”, but according to Wayback Machine (a platform that automatically save snapshots of websites in the past), it was still live on 4 November 2021.
In the website, it stated that Maggie started her first business at 23 years old, and has coached over 1,000 entrepreneurs.
What’s interesting is that she uses the title “Dr” / “Prof” instead of “Ms”, and according to her name prefix, it’s because she’s a Doctorate holder (博士) and not because she’s a medical doctor or a dentist. However, there’s no indication of her education in her profile.
It also turned out that this incident wasn’t the first time she mocked and belittled the poor; in another livestream of her own, she said that poor people who became firefighters did that to feel “heroic” due to their insecurities.
Ouch.
You can watch that here:
Maggie Fong is Stepping Down from All Her Companies
In a press conference that was conducted earlier than Paul Lim’s press conference, she did almost exactly what Paul did.
She claimed that she came from a poor family and singlehandedly built her success, and she has never looked down on anyone, blaming the incident to the way she handled the delivery of her message.
She then apologised repeatedly, and said that she would be leaving Facebook for a while.
She also said that she would be stepping down from all her positions in the various companies and associations she is in, even in the companies she founded.
She then did a Kenneth Leck: She claimed that she’ll be giving up the shares in her company, and even had her lawyers present.
Here’s the video:
If you’re watched it, you’d know that firefighters didn’t feel that her apology was sincere.
In the meantime, both have remained silent since the incident blew up.
I guess now, we’ve another beef with Malaysia: whose saga is more exciting, the NOC Saga or the Paul & Maggie Saga?
