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Chua Jim Neo (Chinese: 蔡認娘; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chhòa Jīn-niû; 1905 – 7 August 1980) was a Singaporean chef and cookbook writer best known for Mrs. Lee's Cookbook, which preserves the recipes of Peranakan cuisine.
Kwa Geok Choo, the wife of Lee Kuan Yew, is the daughter of Wee Yew Neo, [14] [15] who is in turn the sister of Helene Tan, wife of Tan Chin Tuan. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] The Tan's are another prominent family in Singapore, whose members include Tony Tan , the 7th President of Singapore , Tan Kim Seng , a Peranakan businessman, and Mr and Mrs Tan Eng ...
Lee was born on 16 September 1923, the first child of Lee Chin Koon, a Semarang-born Singaporean, [21] and Chua Jim Neo, at 92 Kampong Java Road in Singapore, then part of the British Empire. [22] Both of Lee's parents were English-educated third-generation Straits Chinese, [23] with his paternal side being of Hakka descent from Dabu County.
He married his wife Chua Jim Neo (1905–1980) on 20 May 1922 when he was 18 and she was 16 in a traditional Chinese arranged marriage by Chua's family. [5] Together they had 5 children including the first Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew. [6] In 1945, Lee and Chua bought a bungalow at 38 Oxley Road. [1]
On 17 March 1997, 26-year-old Jimmy Chua claimed trial to the charges of murder and attempted murder at the High Court.The presiding judge of the case was T. S. Sinnathuray, the same judge who passed the death sentence on notorious child killer Adrian Lim (and his two holy wives) back in 1983 and British serial killer John Martin Scripps back in 1995.
Current and past writing systems for Vietnamese in the Vietnamese alphabet and in chữ Hán Nôm. Spoken and written Vietnamese today uses the Latin script-based Vietnamese alphabet to represent native Vietnamese words (thuần Việt), Vietnamese words which are of Chinese origin (Hán-Việt, or Sino-Vietnamese), and other foreign loanwords.
[2] [3] The text gives not only a commentated history of historical figures, but also their roles as spirits in the afterlife according to the traditions developed in Vietnam's Mahayana Buddhism. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The text also cited from contributions of Tang dynasty author Zhao Chang ( fl. 791–802) and Zeng Gun (f. 866–897) who ruled the ...
The Institute of Hán-Nôm Studies (Vietnamese: Viện nghiên cứu Hán Nôm; Hán Nôm: 院研究漢喃), or Hán-Nôm Institute (Vietnamese: Viện Hán Nôm, Hán Nôm: 院漢喃) in Hanoi, Vietnam, is the main research centre, historical archival agency and reference library for the study of chữ Hán and chữ Nôm (together, Hán-Nôm) texts for Vietnamese language in Vietnam.