Sally Aw
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Sally Aw Sian, OBE. DStJ, JP
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businesswoman and adopted daughter of Chinese
entrepreneur Aw Boon Haw
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In 1931, Aw Boon Haw and the second of his four wives adopted the five-year-old daughter of a distant relative from Burma, changing the girl's name from She Moi to Sian. Aw Boon Haw's eldest son was killed in a plane crash in 1951 and after Aw Boon Haw's death in 1954, Aw Sian inherited her late adopted father's assets.
Aw was known foremost as a media mogul, proprietor of the English language
business newspaper The Standard
and the Chinese language
news group Sing Tao News Corporation
, including Sing Tao Daily
founded by Aw Boon Haw in 1938 and tabloid Tin Tin Daily founded by Sally Aw in 1959.
Due to the Asian financial crisis and a corruption scandal in 1998, Aw was forced to sell her stocks in her media assets.
Aw had been a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
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Justice of the Peace
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Cantonese
Cantonese is a dialect spoken primarily in south China.Cantonese may also refer to:* Yue Chinese, the Chinese language that includes Cantonese* Cantonese cuisine, the cuisine of Guangdong province...
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
businesswoman and adopted daughter of Chinese
Chinese people
The term Chinese people may refer to any of the following:*People with Han Chinese ethnicity ....
entrepreneur Aw Boon Haw
Aw Boon Haw
Aw Boon Haw, OBE was a Burmese Chinese entrepreneur and philanthropist best known for introducing Tiger Balm. He was the son of Hakka herbalist Aw Chu Kin, with his ancestral home in Yongding County, Fujian Province, China.-Biography:-Business:...
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In 1931, Aw Boon Haw and the second of his four wives adopted the five-year-old daughter of a distant relative from Burma, changing the girl's name from She Moi to Sian. Aw Boon Haw's eldest son was killed in a plane crash in 1951 and after Aw Boon Haw's death in 1954, Aw Sian inherited her late adopted father's assets.
Aw was known foremost as a media mogul, proprietor of the English language
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
business newspaper The Standard
The Standard
The Standard is an English free newspaper of Hong Kong with a daily circulation of 231,018. It was called the Hong Kong Standard and changed to HKiMail during the Internet boom, but it changed back to The Standard in 2001....
and the Chinese language
Chinese language
The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...
news group Sing Tao News Corporation
Sing Tao News Corporation
Sing Tao News Corporation Limited is a Hong Kong listed company. It is mainly focused on the business of Media Ownership & Services, Human Capital Management, as well as Broadband Content & Distribution. It was formerly called Global China Group Holdings Limited...
, including Sing Tao Daily
Sing Tao Daily
The Sing Tao Daily is Hong Kong's second largest Chinese language newspaper. It is owned by Sing Tao News Corporation Limited, of which Charles Ho Tsu Kwok is the chairman. Its English language sister paper is The Standard...
founded by Aw Boon Haw in 1938 and tabloid Tin Tin Daily founded by Sally Aw in 1959.
Due to the Asian financial crisis and a corruption scandal in 1998, Aw was forced to sell her stocks in her media assets.
Aw had been a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference [], shortened as 人民政协, Rénmín Zhèngxié, i.e. "People's PCC"; or just 政协, Zhèngxié, i.e. "The PCC"), abbreviated CPPCC, is a political advisory body in the People's Republic of China...
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