| 词条 | Sally Aw |
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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.{{citation needed|date=October 2017}} Aw Boon-haw's third son Aw Hoe ({{zh|t=胡好}}) was killed in a plane crash in 1951 and after his own death in 1954, Aw Sian, then 23, inherited the newspaper empire of Hong Kong, 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 foster father in 1938, as well as {{ill|Express News (Hong Kong)|zh|快報 (香港)|lt=Express News}} ({{zh|t=快報}}) she founded in 1963[2] and Tin Tin Daily News she owned via Sing Tao Holdings' listed subsidiary {{ill|Culturecom Holdings|zh|文化傳信}} (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,[3]{{rp|132}} Aw was forced to sell her media interests. Aw had been a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Industry recognitionIn 1988, she won the Carr Van Anda Award from the University of Ohio. The award, named for the former managing editor of the New York Times, is awarded yearly for journalism contributions. References1. ^{{cite news|url=http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/biztimes19850531-1.2.23.2|title=Tiger Balm lady remains a puzzle|work=Business Times|location=Sydney|publication-place=Singapore|date=31 May 1985|access-date=6 October 2017|first=Alan|last=Lee|via=Singapore National Library}} 2. ^{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=1uCnDgAAQBAJ |script-title=zh:香港史新編(增訂版)|volume=2|page=596|editor=Wang Gengwu ({{lang|zh-hant|王賡武}} |edition=1|date=2017|ISBN=978-962-04-3885-1|publisher=Joint Publishing|publication-place=Hong Kong|language=zh-hk|via=Google Book preview|access-date=14 October 2017}} 3. ^{{cite book|last=Sinclair|first=Kevin|title=Tell Me a Story: Forty Years Newspapering in Hong Kong and China|date=December 2007|isbn=9789621794000|publisher=SCMP Book Publishing Ltd}} Further reading
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12 : 1926 births|Living people|Aw family|Hong Kong newspaper people|Hong Kong people of Hakka descent|Burmese people of Hakka 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 |
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