Aw Sian also known as Sally Aw, OBE, DStJ, JP, (born 1932) is a

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businesswoman and daughter of the British Raj Burma-born entrepreneur and newspaper proprietor

Aw Boon-haw Aw Boon-Haw (; 1882 in Rangoon, British Raj – 1954 in Hawaii), OBE, was a Chinese entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as founder of Tiger Balm. He was a son of Hakka herbalist Aw Chu-Kin, with his ancestral home in Yongding Coun ...

. Sally Aw was nicknamed ''Tiger Balm Lady'' as well as ''Chinese Howard Hughes''.

Early life

Sally Aw was born in 1932 during the

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. 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

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business newspaper '' The Standard'' and the

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news group

Sing Tao Holdings Sing Tao Holdings Limited was a Bermuda-incorporated company, but headquartered in Hong Kong. The company was listed in The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. The company was a media and property conglomerate until it was dismantled in 2002. After s ...

, including ''

Sing Tao Daily The ''Sing Tao Daily'' () (also known as ''Sing Tao Jih Pao'') is Hong Kong's oldest and second-largest Chinese language newspaper. It is owned by Sing Tao News Corporation, of which Kwok Ying-shing () is chairman. Its English language sister p ...

'' and ''Sing Tao Wan Pao'', founded by her father in 1938, as well as ' () she founded in 1963 and ''

Tin Tin Daily News ''Tin Tin Daily News'' also known as ''Tin Tin Yat Pao'' was a newspaper in Hong Kong, published between 1960 and 2000. In later years it took a pro-Beijing editorial stand. It was founded by the Wai Kee-shun family, who made their fortune in phar ...

'' she owned via

' listed subsidiary (better known as its Hong Kong subsidiary Jademan Holdings) Due to the

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and a corruption case in which she was named co-conspirator in 1998, Aw was forced to sell her media interests. In 1997, Aw was appointed to be a delegate to the

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from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Industry recognition

In 1988, she won the Carr Van Anda Award from the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University. 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.

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in offshore leaks database 1932 births Living people Aw family Hong Kong newspaper people Hong Kong people of Hakka descent Burmese people of Chinese descent People from Yongding District, Longyan Hong Kong women in business Officers of the Order of the British Empire Members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Hong Kong politicians Sing Tao News Corporation {{HongKong-bio-stub

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