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Tiger Balm Red Tiger Balm 1930s. A precursor to Tiger Balm called Ban Kin Yu (Chinese: 萬金油; lit.'Ten Thousand Golden Oil') was developed in the 1870s in Rangoon, Burma, during the British colonial era by the practising Chinese herbalist Aw Chu Kin, [1] son of Aw Leng Fan, a Chinese Hakka herbalist in Zhongchuan, Fujian Province, China. [2]
Aw Boon Par (Chinese: 胡文豹; pinyin: Hú Wénbào; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hô͘ Bûn-pà; 1888–1944) was an entrepreneur and philanthropist best known for introducing Tiger Balm. He was a son of Hakka herbalist Aw Chu-Kin. [1] [2] Aw was born during the British colonial rule.
Eng Aun Tong Building in Guangzhou, circa 1939. It was nationalized by the People's Republic of China in 1949. The predecessor of Haw Par Corporation, Eng Aun Tong, was founded by Aw Chu Kin, father of Aw Boon Haw and Boon Par brothers.
The building was designed in the Neoclassical style, featuring cornices, arches, columns and a hexagonal pavilion on the roof, which may be a reference to the Tiger Balm bottle. It previously featured a model of a tiger on its front. [1] The building is among the few pre-World War II structures in Singapore to feature a flat roof. [2]
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.
Infection rates dropped and stabilised throughout 2022 and 2023, leading to the end of COVID-19's classification as a severe transmissible disease in June 2023. [22] Although the pandemic has heavily disrupted the country's economy, [23] Vietnam's GDP growth rate has remained one of the highest in Asia-Pacific, at 2.91% in 2020. Due to the more ...
All three Tiger Balm Garden locations were built by the Aw family (Aw Boon Haw and Aw Boon Par). They were created to promote the Tiger Balm products produced by the family. The original garden was located in Hong Kong but is now closed. The second is in Singapore, and a third is in Fujian province of mainland China. The gardens contain statues ...
Aw Chu Kin (Chinese: 胡子钦 ? – 1908 in Rangoon, British Burma) was a Burmese Chinese herbalist.He is best known as the original inventor of Tiger Balm.. Aw's father was a Chinese herbology practitioner in Xiamen and a Hakka Chinese with ancestry in Yongding County.