Sally Aw

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In this Chinese name, the family name is Aw (胡).

Sally Aw in c. 1969
Aw Sian
Chinese胡仙

Aw Sian also known as Sally Aw, OBE, DStJ, JP, (born 1932)[1] is a Hong Kong businesswoman and daughter of the Burmese-Hakka Chinese entrepreneur and newspaper proprietor Aw Boon-haw. Sally Aw was nicknamed Tiger Balm Lady as well as Chinese Howard Hughes.[2]

Aw Boon-haw's third son Aw Hoe (Chinese: 胡好) 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] while other relatives inherited the empire in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.

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  [zh] (Chinese: 快報) she founded in 1963[3] and Tin Tin Daily News she owned via Sing Tao Holdings' listed subsidiary  [zh] (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,[4]: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[]

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[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Wang Gengwu (王賡武, ed. (2017). 香港史新編(增訂版) (in Chinese). 2 (1 ed.). Hong Kong: Joint Publishing. p. 596. ISBN 978-962-04-3885-1. Retrieved 14 October 2017 – via Google Book preview.
  4. ^ Sinclair, Kevin (December 2007). Tell Me a Story: Forty Years Newspapering in Hong Kong and China. SCMP Book Publishing Ltd. ISBN 9789621794000.

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External links[]

  • Entry in offshore leaks database


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