Ong Soo Hin
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Ong Soo Hin is a Malaysian Chinese
businessman and head of a salvaging company in south-east Asia.
In 1996, Ong Soo Hin teamed up with Oxford University archaeologist Mensun Bound
to work with Vietnam's National History Museum
in excavating the Hoi An Wreck
site off the coast of Hoi An
, Vietnam
. The project took four years and costed an estimated $14 million. Over 250,000 intact examples of Vietnamese ceramic were recovered.
Malaysian Chinese
Malaysian Chinese is a Malaysian of Chinese origin. Most are descendants of Chinese who arrived between the fifteenth and the mid-twentieth centuries. Within Malaysia, they are usually simply referred to as "Chinese" in all languages. The term Chinese Malaysian is also sometimes used to refer to...
businessman and head of a salvaging company in south-east Asia.
In 1996, Ong Soo Hin teamed up with Oxford University archaeologist Mensun Bound
Mensun Bound
Mensun Bound is a British marine archaeologist, based in Oxford. He is Triton Senior Research Fellow in Marine Archaeology at Oxford University and a Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford....
to work with Vietnam's National History Museum
National History Museum
The National History Museum or Muzium Sejarah Nasional was the second national museum in Malaysia after the National Museum. It was located opposite Dataran Merdeka in Kuala Lumpur. As of November 2007 it is closed and the collection has been moved to the National Museum.-History:This building was...
in excavating the Hoi An Wreck
Hoi An Wreck
The Hội An Wreck lies 22 miles off the coast of central Vietnam in the South China Sea. Discovered by fishermen in the early 1990s, the Vietnamese government made several attempts to organise an investigation of the site but were confounded by the water depth - 230 feet.The ship was carrying a...
site off the coast of Hoi An
Hoi An
Hội An , or rarely Faifo, is a city of Vietnam, on the coast of the South China Sea in the South Central Coast of Vietnam. It is located in Quang Nam province and is home to approximately 120,000 inhabitants...
, Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
. The project took four years and costed an estimated $14 million. Over 250,000 intact examples of Vietnamese ceramic were recovered.