Aw family
The Aw family is the family of Aw Chu Kin and his descendants. Aw Chu Kin started his business in then Burma, which his two sons expanded into a multi-national conglomerate that ranged from Chinese medicines to newspapers, as well as banks, insurance and real estate.
Decline and takeovers
However, the family started to decline in the third generation, on the takeover of the family-owned listed company Haw Par Brothers International in Singapore in 1971, which saw Sin Poh (Star News) Amalgamated, Chung Khiaw Bank and Haw Par Brothers spin off from the listed company. Before the dismantling, the key position of the business empire was served by third-generation member and their spouse, who were removed after the takeover. However, Sally Aw, granddaughter of founder Aw Chu Kin, remained an influential media tycoon in Hong Kong in 1990s, until forced to sell her Sing Tao Holdings in 1999 due to financial difficulties.In 1985, the family owned Haw Par Villa was given to the government of Singapore.
Members
Note: starting from the fourth generation, not all member are listedFirst generation
Second generation
Aw Boon Leng eldest brother, died at young age- Aw Boon Haw, have 4 wives, 7 sons and 2 daughters
- Aw Boon Par
Third generation
- Dato Aw Kow 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; he was invited to the Fujian Provincial Assembly in 1947; he married Tan, daughter of a pastor from the Methodist church; she chaired Eastern Sun. He died on 1 March 1982Aw Swan : general manager of Sin Poh (Star News) Amalgamated of Singapore in 1971–72; removed from the position in Sin Poh Amalgamated (Hong Kong) in 1952; renounced by Aw Boon Haw as adopted son in 1952Aw Hoe : managing director of Singapore Tiger Standard, died in a plane crash in January 1951, adopted son of Aw Boon HawSally Aw O.B.E., adopted daughter of Aw Boon Haw, chairwoman of Sing Tao Holdings until 1999; she replaced Aw Swan to manage Sing Tao since 1952
- Dato Aw It Haw D.P.M.S., son of Aw Boon Haw, chairman of Haw Par Brothers Limited after the death of his cousin Aw Cheng Chye in August 1971, director of Sin Chew Jit Poh (Singapore) Limited and Chung Khiaw Bank; first person in the Malay Peninsula to fly a plane solo from England to Singapore in 1958; died in 1995Aw Jee Haw, son of Aw Boon Haw, killed during WW2 by Japanese bombs at young ageAw Sar Haw, son of Aw Boon Haw, died at young ageAw Sin Haw / Aw Si Haw / Aw See Haw, son of Aw Boon HawAw Seng, daughter of Aw Boon Haw
- Dato Aw Cheng Chye S.P.M.J., B.B.M., son of Aw Boon Par, chairman of Haw Par Brothers, Haw Par Brothers International, Sin Poh Amalgamated and director of Chung Khiaw Bank and many companies. Married to Tay Chwee Sian, director of Sin Chew Jit Poh Limited from 1975 to 1978Aw Cheng Taik, son of Aw Boon Par, managing director of Singapore Tiger Standard after the death of Aw Hoe; was general manager in 1950. Still served as a director of charity organization "Haw Par Music Foundation Limited", founded by Sally Aw as of 2017.Aw Cheng Hu, eldest daughter of Aw Boon Par, married to Dato Lee Chee Shan, first cousin once removed of Aw Boon Haw, the lifetime president of Chung Khiaw Bank until he was retired in July 1971, Lee died in 1986. Aw Cheng Hu was the vice-chairman of Singapore Sōgetsu-ryū Association. Both Lee and Aw Cheng Hu were said to be philanthropists. Aw Cheng Hu said to have died in a house of Housing and Development Board in 2010Aw Cheng Sin, daughter of Aw Boon Par, also known by her Thai name after naturalization, Suri Santipongchai, married to Lee Aik Sim, were the directors of Haw Par Brothers until resigning in 1972; owned and operated the Thai newspaper Sing Sian Yer Pao, published in Chinese, until 2010.
Fourth generation
Aw Toke Tone, son of Aw Hoe, managing director of Hongkong Tiger Standard, director and minority shareholder of Sing Tao after it became a listed companyAllan Aw, son of Aw Hoe, auditor of Arthur Andersen Hong Kong, member of the Council of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong from 1999 to ?Marcia Aw, daughter of Aw Hoe, executive director of Changing Young Lives Foundation----
- t=胡美一, daughter of Aw Swan, managing director of Sin Poh (Star News) Amalgamated Sendirian Berhad
----Aw Toke Soon, son of Aw Cheng Chye, director of Sin Chew Jit Poh (Singapore) Limited from 1975 to 1978, president of a surfing club in 1970s.Aw Toke Ghee, son of Aw Cheng Chye, businessman, born August 1952Aw Ai Sim, daughter of Aw Cheng Chye, a veterinarian.
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- t=李坤珊, daughter of Lee A. Santipongchai and Suri Santipongchai, managing director of Sing Sian Yer Pao in the 2000s.
Fifth generation
May Chu Harding née Lee, granddaughter of Lee Chee Shan co-author of autobiography Escape from Paradise.Businesses
Products
Newspapers
Aw Boon Haw, his son Aw Kow, his daughter Sally Aw and his nephew Aw Cheng Taik had founded several newspapers, but none of them are owned by the family at present.;Star NewspapersSing Tao Daily
- * Sing Tao Daily (Canada) Toronto and Vancouver
- * Sing Tao Daily
- * Sing Tao Wan Pao Sin Chew Jit Poh (Singapore)
- * Sin Chew Daily
- * Sin Pin Jit Poh Sin Chung Jit Poh Sing Sian Yer Pao
- * Sing Thai Wan Pao Sing Ming Jih Pao, Sing Wah Jih Pao Sing Kwong Jih Pao
;Chinese newspaper
- l=Tiger Newspaper Express News Shenxing Times, financial newspaper in collaboration with the Shenzhen Special Zone Daily, published between 1994 and 1999