sia yong tee, an ethnic chinese, is also a second-generation son of settlers. ( conversing in malay ) translated ): could i ask you what tay's pri is for palm oil? ( translated ): two hundred-plus ringgit per ton. how much do you think is here? more than a ton and a half, i'd say. narrator: sia became an oil palm broker he and his family handle 30d 400 to of oil palm a m. narrator: sithe family income is nowker he aconsiderably moredle than that of the average malay farming household. twice a day, in the morning and in the evening, sia lights incense for the spirits of his ancestors. his late father came here from china in the middle 1920s. sia says his roots run deep in this village. ( speaking malay ) translator: i hope that my sons will continue with the family business. i think that oil palm cultivation will increase, and i hope that they will stay with it for a long time. narrator: in 1969, the capital, kuala lumpur, erupted in race riots after an election. malays were pitted against ethnic chinese as rural malays expressed their resentment over the rising economic might of the u