Aw Boon Par
Singaporean businessman
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| Intro | Singaporean businessman | ||||||
| Places | Singapore | ||||||
| was | Businessperson | ||||||
| Work field | Business | ||||||
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| Birth | 1888, Yangon, Yangon Region, Myanmar | ||||||
| Death | 1944 (aged 56 years) | ||||||
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Aw Boon-Par (Chinese: 胡文豹; pinyin: Hú Wénbào; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hô͘ Bûn-pà; 1888 in Yangon, Indian Empire – 1944 in Yangon, British Burma) was a Burmese Chinese entrepreneur and philanthropist best known for introducing Tiger Balm.
He was a son of Hakka herbalist Aw Chu-Kin. His father left the business to Boon-Par and after Aw Chu-Kin's death in 1908, he called his elder brother Aw Boon-Haw to run his father's apothecary, Eng Aun Tong ("The Hall of Eternal Peace") together.
Although Aw wished to stay in Yangon, his brother who had settled in Singapore in 1926 convinced him to immigrate, move the family business, and found the precursor of today's Haw Par Corporation. During the Japanese occupation of Singapore, Boon-Haw moved to Hong Kong to manage the business from there, while Boon-Par stayed in Singapore to run the factory. Eventually, Aw closed the factory down, returned to Rangoon, and died there.