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Sally Aw
Aw Sian also known as Sally Aw, OBE, DStJ, JP, (born 1932) is a Hong Kong businesswoman and daughter of the British Raj Burma-born entrepreneur and newspaper proprietor Aw Boon-haw. Sally Aw was nicknamed ''Tiger Balm Lady'' as well as ''Chinese Howard Hughes''. Early life Sally Aw was born in 1932 during the British Raj. At age 5, Sally was adopted by fellow relative Aw Boon Haw. 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. 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 ' () she founded in 1963 and '' Tin Tin Daily News'' she owned via Sing Tao Holdings' listed subsidiary (better known as its Hong Kong subsidiary Jademan Holdings) Due to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hu (surname)
Hu ( 胡) is a Chinese surname. In 2006, it was the 15th most common surname in China. In 2013, it was the 13th most common in China, with 13.7 million Chinese sharing this surname. In 2019, Hu was the fifteenth most common surname in Mainland China. Some other, less common surnames pronounced Hu include 瓠, 護, 戶, 扈, 虎, 呼, 忽, 斛 and 壶. In Cantonese, “胡” is also pronounced as "Wu" or "Woo" or "Ow". Meaning In Classical Chinese, ''hú'' 胡 meant: " dewlap; wattle" and was a variant Chinese character for "how; why; what" (''he'' 何), "long-lasting; far-reaching" (''xia'' 遐), "part of a dagger-axe", ''hu-'' in "butterfly" (''hudie'' 蝴蝶), or possibly "Northern Barbarians". History According to tradition, the Hu (胡) surname has several historical origins. First, Hu could derive from the family of Duke Hu of Chen. King Wu of Zhou (r. 1046-043 BCE) enfeoffed his son-in-law Gui Man 媯滿 (supposedly a descendant of the legendary sage king E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
