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About Ong Tiang Swee
Kapitan China Ong Tiang Swee,, CSS known as the Grand Old Man, was a renowned businessman and philanthropist in Sarawak. Regarded as the most prominent and successful Chinese community leader in Sarawak, he was Kapitan China of Sarawak and President of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, as well as an advisor on Chinese Affairs and confidant to Rajah Charles Brooke. He was also the first Chinese nominated to the Sarawak Council Negri in 1937. He played a significant role in the progress of the state and saw Sarawak through its infant stages of development.
Everything about Ong Tiang Swee →- Position held
- Kapitan Cina
- Born
- August 3, 1864
- Died
- October 19, 1950