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VietNamNet Bridge – From zero to having assets worth hundreds of millions US dollar and joining the billionaire club of New Zealand in the near future, that’s the story of a Vietnamese real estate trader in Manukau, New Zealand.
This Vietnamese New Zealand man, 38, earns money from real estate and horseracing and he was recently named on the list of the richest men in New Zealand by National Business Review magazine.
The man, Don Ha, left Vietnam at the age of nine after the Vietnam War. His family went to Hong Kong before settling in New Zealand in 1980.
Don Ha’s family opened a bakery, which became a chain of bakeries in the southern part of Auckland several years later. However, Don Ha didn’t work at his parents’ bakery but became an importer of shoes and belts from Asian countries.
In 1994, he began to get involved in real estate business. So far, he has sold real estate works worth more than $200 million in the southern part of Auckland.
“I want to create a model and I hope any person who is hard-working like me will gain the same results. I want to achieve success of 10, 20 and 100 times more than what I have now,” Don Ha said.
He has recently become involved in horseracing business. At a national auction held in January 2007, he surprised the horseracing circle in New Zealand by buying a young racing horse at a price of $2 million.
Don Ha is developing a horse training establishment in Pukehole. “My ambition is entering the nation’s top ten businessmen in the horseracing business,” he said.
Don Ha is expected to enter the billionaire club of New Zealand very soon, which currently has five individual members only.
“We consider him a billionaire because he currently has around $800 million and other reports say that he is even richer,” said Brett Thompson of National Business Review magazine.
This Vietnamese New Zealand man, 38, earns money from real estate and horseracing and he was recently named on the list of the richest men in New Zealand by National Business Review magazine.
The man, Don Ha, left Vietnam at the age of nine after the Vietnam War. His family went to Hong Kong before settling in New Zealand in 1980.
Don Ha’s family opened a bakery, which became a chain of bakeries in the southern part of Auckland several years later. However, Don Ha didn’t work at his parents’ bakery but became an importer of shoes and belts from Asian countries.
In 1994, he began to get involved in real estate business. So far, he has sold real estate works worth more than $200 million in the southern part of Auckland.
“I want to create a model and I hope any person who is hard-working like me will gain the same results. I want to achieve success of 10, 20 and 100 times more than what I have now,” Don Ha said.
He has recently become involved in horseracing business. At a national auction held in January 2007, he surprised the horseracing circle in New Zealand by buying a young racing horse at a price of $2 million.
Don Ha is developing a horse training establishment in Pukehole. “My ambition is entering the nation’s top ten businessmen in the horseracing business,” he said.
Don Ha is expected to enter the billionaire club of New Zealand very soon, which currently has five individual members only.
“We consider him a billionaire because he currently has around $800 million and other reports say that he is even richer,” said Brett Thompson of National Business Review magazine.
