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In 1937, Tan and five other leading Chinese businessmen – Lee Kong Chian, Chew Hean Swee, Lee Choon Seng, Yeo Kiat Tiow and Lee Chin Tian – acquired the Sun Yat Sen villa in Singapore. The villa was subsequently donated to the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce to be preserved as a historic site. 19
Jul 1, 2013 · In 1937, Tan Ean Kiam, together with five others, namely Lee Kong Chian, Lee Chin Tian, Lee Choon Seng, Chew Hean Swee and Yeo Kiat Tiow acquired the Sun Yat Sen villa that Dr Sun Yat Sen stayed while he was in Singapore.
Nov 15, 2013 · The fourth daughter, Miss Evelyn Lee Wai Chan married Mr. Tan Koen Tjoan (nephew of Mr and Mrs Tan Hoan Kie , managing director of Aurora Ltd. ) at a reception in the Victoria Memorial Hall on March 29, 1954.
To recognise the efforts that Tan Ean Kiam had contributed towards the formation of the bank, he was made its first joint managing director together with Yap Twee who later retired in 1933 leaving behind Tan as the sole managing director (1934–1941). 28
An anecdotal story has it that Tan Kah Kee and Lee Kong Chian met one rainy evening while both were dining at a streetside eatery. Lee loaned Tan an umbrella, and was to collect it back at Tan’s rubber factory. The following day, Lee visited the factory just when Tan was receiving his first American clients.
A mission in 1940 led by Tan Kah Kee to represent the Singapore and Southseas China Relief Funds for comforting the wounded and for assessing the war conditions in China. One of the directors of the Oversea-Chinese Bank Limited, Berita OCBC, Vol. 3 No. 5, October 1972, p.4. in Kuo Min Jit Poh Chinese newspaper, 8 October 1919 issue.
Feb 7, 2022 · In the 1930s, the Hokkien leaders in the Singapore Chinese community, such as Lee Choon Seng, Tan Kah Kee, Lee Kong Chian, and Tan Ean Kiam (陈延谦), initiated the national salvation movement immediately to support China in the Anti-Japanese War.
