{{Short description|Hong Kong businesswoman}} {{family name hatnote|Aw (胡)|lang=Chinese}} {{Use Hong Kong English|date=April 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Sally Aw | image = File:19691105胡仙.jpg | occupation = Entrepreneur | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1932}} | birth_place = Rangoon, Burma, British Raj }} {{Infobox Chinese |title=Aw Sian |c=胡仙 |y=Wùh Sīn |p=Hú Xiān |j=Wu<sup>4</sup> Sin<sup>1</sup> }} '''Aw Sian''' also known as '''Sally Aw''', <small>OBE, DStJ, JP</small>, (born 1932)<ref name=biog>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=22alDAAAQBAJ&q=biographical+dictionary+of+chinese+women|title=Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: v. 2: Twentieth Century|last=Lee|first=Lily Xiao Hong|date=2016-07-08|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-315-49924-6|language=en}}</ref> is a Hong Kong businesswoman and daughter of the Burmese-born entrepreneur and newspaper proprietor Aw Boon-haw. Sally Aw was nicknamed ''Tiger Balm Lady'' as well as ''Chinese Howard Hughes''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/biztimes19850531-1.2.23.2|title=Tiger Balm lady remains a puzzle|work=Business Times|location=Sydney|publication-place=Singapore|date=31 May 1985|access-date=6 October 2017|first=Alan|last=Lee|via=Singapore National Library}}</ref>
==Early life== Sally Aw was born in Rangoon in 1932 during the British Raj. At age 5, Sally was adopted by fellow relative Aw Boon Haw.<ref>King, Sam (1992), Tiger Balm king : the life and times of Aw Boon Haw. Singapore : Times Books International, 1992.</ref>
Aw Boon-haw's third son, Aw Hoe, was killed in a plane crash in 1951, and after his own death in 1954, Aw Sian, then 22, inherited the newspaper empire of Hong Kong.<ref name=biog/>
Aw was known foremost as a media mogul, proprietor of the English language business newspaper ''The Standard'' and the Chinese language news group Sing Tao Holdings, including ''Sing Tao Daily'' and ''Sing Tao Wan Pao'', founded by her father in 1938, as well as ''{{ill|Express News (Hong Kong)|zh|快報 (香港)|lt=Express News}}'' ({{zh|t=快報}}) she founded in 1963<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1uCnDgAAQBAJ |script-title=zh:香港史新編(增訂版)|volume=2|page=596|editor=Wang Gengwu ({{lang|zh-hant|王賡武}} |edition=1|date=2017|isbn=978-962-04-3885-1|publisher=Joint Publishing|location=Hong Kong|language=zh-hk|via=Google Books preview|access-date=14 October 2017}}</ref> and ''Tin Tin Daily News'' she owned via Sing Tao Holdings' listed subsidiary {{ill|Culturecom Holdings|zh|文化傳信}} (better known as its Hong Kong subsidiary Jademan Holdings)
Due to the Asian financial crisis and a corruption case in which she was named co-conspirator in 1998,<ref name=Sinclair>{{cite book|last=Sinclair|author-link=Kevin Sinclair (journalist)|first=Kevin|title=Tell Me a Story: Forty Years Newspapering in Hong Kong and China|date=December 2007|isbn=9789621794000|publisher=SCMP Book Publishing Ltd}}</ref>{{rp|132}} Aw was forced to sell her media interests.
In 1997, Aw was appointed to be a delegate to the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.<ref name=biog/>
==Industry recognition== In 1988, she won the Carr Van Anda Award from the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University.<ref name=biog/> The award, named after the former managing editor of the ''New York Times'', is awarded yearly for journalism contributions. Aw was given the award for building ''Sing Tao'' into an international Chinese-language newspaper.<ref name=biog/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
== Further reading == * [https://books.google.com/books?id=0qUFFNADr1cC&dq=%22sally+aw%22+1931&pg=PA71 Dealing With the Dragon: A Year in the New Hong Kong]
==External links== * [https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/nodes/80032085 Entry] in offshore leaks database {{Authority control}}
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