THE FILIPINO business community has lost one of its strongest pillars with the demise on Saturday of property and banking taipan Henry Sy Sr., patriarch of the SM group.

Sy's life is a true rags-to-riches story, a Chinese immigrant who saw vast opportunity in a foreign land, transforming in the process the Philippine economy and providing livelihoods to countless Filipinos.

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