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Aw Boon-Haw (Chinese: 胡文虎; pinyin: Hú Wénhǔ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ô͘ Bûn-hó͘; 1882–1954), 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 County , Fujian , China.
Dato [1] [2] Aw Kow (Chinese: 胡蛟) D.K.L.P., B.B.M., adopted son of Aw Boon Haw; he was the managing director of Sin Chew Jit Poh and the owner of Eastern Sun; [3] [4] he was invited to the Fujian Provincial Assembly in 1947; [5] he married Tan (Chinese: 陳家裕, also known as Datin Aw Kow), daughter of a pastor from the Methodist church; she chaired Eastern Sun.
Haw Par Mansion, better known for its public gardens known as Tiger Balm Garden or Aw Boon Haw Garden, was a mansion and gardens located at 15, Tai Hang Road, Tai Hang, Wan Chai District, Hong Kong. The Tiger Balm Garden was demolished for redevelopment [1] in 2004. [2] The Haw Par Mansion and its private garden have been preserved. [3]
TIGER BALM GARDENS A Chinese Billionaire's Fantasy Environments, Judith Brandel & Tina Turbeville, 1998 Aw Boon Haw Foundation ISBN 962 672 052 2 This garden-related article is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it .
Singapore Standard was founded by millionaire Aw Boon Haw in 1950. Despite being born in Burma, he was ethnic Hakka Chinese.According to Joe Conceicao, a former member of parliament of Singapore, the newspaper reflected the Chinese entrepreneurial interests. [7]
The Aw family founded the Tiger Balm Gardens in Hong Kong in 1935, Singapore in 1937 and Fujian Province in 1946 [6] to promote the product. Boon Haw also established newspapers in China and Singapore; his daughter said that he spent so much money on advertising that "he thought it would be cheaper to just open a few newspapers". [7]
Although Aw wished to stay in Yangon, his brother who had settled in Singapore [3] in 1926 convinced him to immigrate, move the family business, and found the precursor of today's Haw Par Corporation. Boon-Haw moved to Hong Kong to manage the business from there, while Boon-Par stayed in Singapore to run the factory.
After the death of Aw Boon Haw in 1954, As of 1959, Aw Cheng Chye, eldest son of Aw Boon Haw's brother Aw Boon Par (b.1888, d.1944), was the general manager of Singapore-based Eng Aun Tong, the maker of Tiger Balm, [13] while Sally Aw, became the head of Sin Poh Amalgamated (H.K.) Limited, which she was the largest shareholder among the family ...