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Hong Leong Bank began its operations in 1905 in Kuching, Sarawak, under the name of Kwong Lee Mortgage & Remittance Company. [ 2] The original company was founded by Cantonese brothers Lam Tee Chew (林子昭) and Lam Song Khee (林崧祺). [ 3] The company granted loans against the security of export commodities such as pepper, rubber and ...
Abdul Taib Mahmud – 7th Governor of Sarawak and 4th Chief Minister of Sarawak, born in Miri. Adenan Satem – 5th Chief Minister of Sarawak, born in Kuching. Ahmad Lai Bujang – member of parliament for Sibuti. Ahmad Zaidi Adruce – 5th Governor of Sarawak, born in Sibu. Aidil Mohamad – footballer, born in Mukah.
Founded. 1965; 59 years ago. ( 1965) in Sausalito, California, U.S. Founder. Haddon Salt. H. Salt Esq. Fish & Chips is a restaurant chain specializing in British-style fish and chips, founded by Haddon Salt in Sausalito, California, in 1965. Salt followed his father and grandfather in becoming a master fish cook and entrepreneur.
Tan Chong Motor Holdings Berhad ( MYX: 4405 ), also known as the TCMH Group or simply Tan Chong Motor (TCM) is a Malaysia -based multinational corporation that is active in automobile assembly, manufacturing, distribution and sales, but is best known as the franchise holder of Nissan vehicles in Malaysia. The company was founded in 1957 by two ...
Oregonian novelist H. L. Davis, best known for his 1935 Pulitzer Prize–winning Honey in the Horn, wrote a 1949 novel called Beulah Land about the travails and westward travels of a Cherokee family from the Southeastern United States. A coffee shop and bar called Beulahland (one word) in Portland, Oregon, is possibly named after Davis' novel.
Liberty Hyde Bailey (March 15, 1858 – December 25, 1954) was an American horticulturist and reformer of rural life. He was cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science. [ 1]: 10–15 As an energetic reformer during the Progressive Era, he was instrumental in starting agricultural extension services, the 4-H movement, the nature ...
H. L. Green sold its Canadian subsidiary Metropolitan Stores and some other assets at this time, reducing the number of stores in its system from 366 to 147. H. L. Green was the subject of an important copyright legal case in the 1960s, Shapiro, Bernstein and Co. v. H.L. Green Co., in which a vendor of records in an H. L. Green store sold ...
Map of area. Helike marked "Ελικη". A Hellenistic-era building, possibly used as a dye-works A coin from Helike. Helike was founded in the Early Bronze Age (c. 3000-2200 BC) as a proto-urban town with large rectilinear buildings and cobbled streets; walls and occupation layers rich in pottery of the Mycenaean period (c. 1750-1050 BC) were also found, [3] becoming the principal city of Achaea.