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The Straits Trading Company Limited is a Singapore-based corporation with operations in Singapore and Malaysia, as well as various localities in Asia and Australia.. Founded in 1887, the company was the result of a partnership for tin smelting between James Sword, a Scottish businessman, and Herman Muhlinghaus, a German entrepreneur; the Straits Trading Company was later incorporated in ...
Chung Thye Phin was born in the village of Kota, Taiping, at the Perak Sultanate on 28 September 1879. [10] He was the fourth son of Chinese tin-mining business magnate and philanthropist Chung Keng Quee (1827–1901) and Foo Teng Nyong (1849–1883), Chung's third wife. [11][12] His name, Thye Phin (Chinese: 太平), was named after the town ...
Tin mining is one of the earliest type of mining operated in Malaysia, starting in the 1820s in Perak and in 1824 in Selangor. [1] The development of mining industries in Malaysia attracted many Chinese immigrants who came to the state in 18th and 19th centuries to work and develop the mines. [2] The majority of Malayan tin mined prior to the ...
Chew Gek Khim. Chew Gek Khim (Chinese: 周玉琴; pinyin: Zhōu Yùqín) is a Singaporean businesswoman and investor who is the chairman of companies including the Straits Trading Company. She is the granddaughter of former OCBC Bank chairman Tan Chin Tuan. According to Forbes, she is part of one of the richest families in Singapore with a net ...
By 1899, Singapore had become the world's main exporter of tin. Boustead & Co played a leading role as promoter and investor in the tin smelting facility on Pulau Brani, constructed by the Straits Trading Company. From that point onwards, Straits Tin became one of the leading businesses of Boustead & Co.
Malaysia has two ports that are listed in the top 20 busiest ports in the world, Port Klang and Port of Tanjung Pelepas, which are respectively the 2nd and 3rd busiest ports in Southeast Asia after the Port of Singapore. Port Klang is Malaysia's busiest port, and the 13th busiest port in the world in 2013, handling over 10.3 million TEUs.
Tin is a chemical element; it has symbol Sn (from Latin stannum) and atomic number 50. A silvery-colored metal, tin is soft enough to be cut with little force, [ 10 ] and a bar of tin can be bent by hand with little effort. When bent, the so-called " tin cry " can be heard as a result of twinning in tin crystals. [ 11 ]
Eu was born in Penang, Malaya on 23 July 1877. His grandfather, He Song, a feng shui master, was originally from Jiangxi but moved to Foshan in Guangdong, China.His father, Eu Kong Pui (a.k.a. Eu Kong) became a Chinese immigrant from Foshan and went to Penang to work as a grocery shop assistant and later laid the foundation for his son's fortune by starting tin mining and other businesses. [4]