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Apr 14, 2022 · Wee was the founder and chairman of Eastern Oxygen Industries Sdn Bhd, and a younger brother of Singaporean banker Wee Cho Yaw. The prominent businessman, who served for 12 years as president of the Kuching Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry until 1978, made significant financial contribution to Chinese education.
Wee Cho Yaw married Chuang Yong Eng and they have five sons and two daughters. Their children are Wee Wei Ling, Wee Ee Chong, Ee Lim Wee, Wee Wei Chi and Ee-chao Wee. Wee Wei Chi is Wee was Cho Yaw’s eldest daughter. Family of Wee. Father of Wee. Wee Kheng Chiang was born on 22nd July 1890 in Kuching, Malaysia and died in 1978, Kuching, Malaysia.
Wee was born in Kinmen, Fujian, China to Wee Kheng Chiang, a businessman, and Koh Geok Siew, of Jincheng, Kinmen. Koh was the second wife of Keng Chiang with the approval of his first wife. In 1937, Wee and his family fled to Kuching in Borneo to escape the Sino-Japanese War.
Apr 4, 2024 · SINGAPORE – The three sons of the late banking tycoon Wee Cho Yaw are newly minted billionaires, according to a Forbes’ list of global billionaires released on April 2. UOB chief executive...
Feb 29, 2024 · Cho Yaw’s father, Wee Kheng Chiang, founded UOB in 1935 and it is now worth more than US$35 billion, while the family’s UOL Group is one of Singapore’s biggest real estate developers.
Feb 7, 2024 · SINGAPORE – A successful banker, revered community leader and respected mentor – this is how family, colleagues and friends of Mr Wee Cho Yaw fondly remember him and his legacy after he died at the...
Feb 4, 2024 · Wee Cho Yaw, the billionaire who shaped Singapore’s financial landscape by amalgamating several old family-controlled banks, has died. He was 95. The former chairman of United Overseas Bank...
Feb 3, 2024 · Singapore billionaire banker and property developer Wee Cho Yaw died on Saturday morning at the age of 95, according to a statement from United Overseas Bank, in which he and his family...
Feb 3, 2024 · SINGAPORE – Billionaire Wee Cho Yaw, chairman emeritus and honorary adviser of UOB, has died at the age of 95. The bank announced Mr Wee’s death in a Feb 3 statement on Facebook.
Feb 3, 2024 · NTU joins the Wee family in mourning the loss of Dr Wee Cho Yaw. Those who have had the opportunity to interact with him remember him as a generous man who was always willing to hear out young people and give them his advice.
