Summary
Aw Sian also known as Sally Aw, OBE, DStJ, JP, (born 1932)[1] is a Hong Kong businesswoman and daughter of the Burmese-born entrepreneur and newspaper proprietor Aw Boon-haw. Sally Aw was nicknamed Tiger Balm Lady as well as Chinese Howard Hughes.[2]
Sally Aw | |
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| Born | 1932 (age 91–92) |
| Occupation | entrepreneur |
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| Chinese | 胡仙 | ||||||||||||
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Early life edit
Sally Aw was born in Rangoon in 1932 during the British Raj. At age 5, Sally was adopted by fellow relative Aw Boon Haw.[3]
Aw Boon-haw's third son Aw Hoe was killed in a plane crash in 1951 and after his own death in 1954, Aw Sian, then 22, inherited the newspaper empire of Hong Kong.[1]
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 Holdings, including Sing Tao Daily and Sing Tao Wan Pao, founded by her father in 1938, as well as Express News (Chinese: 快報) she founded in 1963[4] and Tin Tin Daily News she owned via Sing Tao Holdings' listed subsidiary Culturecom Holdings (better known as its Hong Kong subsidiary Jademan Holdings)
Due to the Asian financial crisis and a corruption case in which she was named co-conspirator in 1998,[5]: 132 Aw was forced to sell her media interests.
In 1997, Aw was appointed to be a delegate to the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.[1]
Industry recognition edit
In 1988, she won the Carr Van Anda Award from the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University.[1] The award, named after the former managing editor of the New York Times, is awarded yearly for journalism contributions. Aw was given the award for building Sing Tao into an international Chinese-language newspaper.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e Lee, Lily Xiao Hong (8 July 2016). Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: v. 2: Twentieth Century. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-315-49924-6.
- ^ Lee, Alan (31 May 1985). Written at Sydney. "Tiger Balm lady remains a puzzle". Business Times. Singapore. Retrieved 6 October 2017 – via Singapore National Library.
- ^ King, Sam (1992), Tiger Balm king : the life and times of Aw Boon Haw. Singapore : Times Books International, 1992.
- ^ Wang Gengwu (王賡武, ed. (2017). 香港史新編(增訂版) (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Vol. 2 (1 ed.). Hong Kong: Joint Publishing. p. 596. ISBN 978-962-04-3885-1. Retrieved 14 October 2017 – via Google Books preview.
- ^ Sinclair, Kevin (December 2007). Tell Me a Story: Forty Years Newspapering in Hong Kong and China. SCMP Book Publishing Ltd. ISBN 9789621794000.
Further reading edit
- Dealing With the Dragon: A Year in the New Hong Kong
External links edit
- Entry in offshore leaks database