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Goh Cheng Liang was born in Singapore. [2] He is the son of Wu Songchang and Li Xiuying. [3] He grew up in poverty and sold fishnets and rubber tapper for income. After World War II, he began buying cheap paint from the British army which he turned into a local company. [4]
Lee Foundation is Singapore's largest private charitable foundation. [1] It was founded in 1952 by philanthropist and businessman Lee Kong Chian, and has since supported various educational causes, healthcare and medical endowments as well as disaster relief efforts. It is run by a board composed of Lee's descendants and non-family members.
Wu is married and has a son and a daughter. He lives in Bishan with his wife and his daughter in a rented house, two doors away from a four-bedroom bungalow (his mother, his son and a maid live there), where his family have been living since 1951. [1] Wu's mother is a cousin of Ong Teng Cheong, the fifth President of Singapore. [2]
Lee was a director of the family's Lee Group of Companies, a Singapore-based conglomerate of firms in industries that include pineapple and investments; Lee was among the 40 richest people in Singapore [3] primarily due to his stake in family businesses.
Wú is the pinyin transliteration of the Chinese surname 吳 (Simplified Chinese 吴), which is a common surname (family name) in Mainland China. Wú (吳) is the sixth name listed in the Song dynasty classic Hundred Family Surnames. [1] In 2019 Wu was the ninth most common surname in Mainland China. [2]
During the pandemic, ultra-wealthy individuals flocked to Singapore, attracted by its less strict controls and favorable tax policies. The number of single-family offices based in the city-state ...
[20] [21] After Wu was charged, her father and other family members travelled from China to Singapore to provide moral support for her. [22] [23] [24] The Chinese Embassy in Singapore also engaged Subhas Anandan, who was then the best criminal lawyer in Singapore, to defend Wu during her court proceedings for the murder of Tan Lead Sane.
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