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Kwee Liong Keng is married to Chua Lee Eng, from the Chua family that founded Cycle and Carriage. [6] He also was Singapore's Non-Resident Ambassador to Poland, among other public service positions. [7] Kwee Liong Tek is the chairman of the Group. [8] Kwee Liong Seen and Kwee Liong Phing are both directors on the board.
Kwee Liong Keng: 1.35 billion: Pontiac Land 23: Kwee Liong Phing: 1.35 billion: Pontiac Land 24: Kwee Liong Seen: 1.35 billion: Pontiac Land 25: Kwee Liong Tek: 1.35 billion: Pontiac Land 26: Kishin RK: 1.6 billion: Royal Holdings/RB Capital 27: Ron Sim: 1.6 billion: Osim International: 28: Wee Ee Cheong: 1.6 billion: United Overseas Bank: 29 ...
The Kwee family of Ciledug was an influential bureaucratic and business dynasty of the 'Cabang Atas' or the Chinese gentry of the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia). [1] [2] [3] From the mid-nineteenth until the mid-twentieth century, they featured prominently in the colonial bureaucracy of Java as Chinese officers, and played an important role in the sugar industry. [3]
Chinese dynasties, particularly the Tang dynasty, have influenced Japanese culture throughout history and brought it into the Sinosphere. After 220 years of isolation, the Meiji era opened Japan to Western influences, enriching and diversifying Japanese culture. Popular culture shows how much contemporary Japanese culture influences the world. [2]
Cultural landscape in Kanazawa. Tradition and culture in the castle town (金沢の文化的景観 城下町の伝統と文化, Kanazawa no bunkateki keikan; jōkamachi no dentō to bunka) [25] 1.5, 1.7, 1.8 Kanazawa is a renowned centre of Japanese crafts. [26] Kanazawa, Ishikawa: 2010
Kadomatsu (門松) decorative pillars for Japanese New Year, featuring branches of pine, bamboo and plum. The Three Friends are known as shōchikubai (松竹梅, lit. ' pine-bamboo-plum ') in Japan. [11] They are particularly associated with the start of the Lunar New Year, appearing on greeting cards and as a design stamped into seasonal ...
The Japanese Culture House of Paris (French: La maison de la culture du Japon à Paris) (Japanese: パリ日本文化会館) (also known as MCJP) is located at 101 bis, quai Jacques-Chirac, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. Its purpose is to introduce Japanese culture to the French. It is managed by the Japan Foundation in France.
In 1932, Yōnosuke Natori returned to Japan from Germany as a correspondent photographer of Ullstein-Verlag. In 1933, Nippon Kōbō (Japan Studio, 日本工房) was founded by Yōnosuke Natori, but in 1934 most of main members other than Natori has left Nippon Kobo and founded Chūō Kōbō (Metropolitan Studio, 中央工房). Then Natori ...