Sally Aw
Female, Person
1926 –
Who is Sally Aw?
Sally Aw Sian, OBE, DStJ, JP, is a Hong Kong businesswoman and adopted daughter of the Burmese Chinese entrepreneur Aw Boon-Haw.
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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