Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Tan Keong Saik (Chinese: 陈恭锡; pinyin: Chén Gōngxī; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân Kiong-sik) was a Singaporean businessman who contributed much to the social and intellectual life of the Chinese community at the turn of the 19th century. He was one of the men who contributed to the setting up of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in 1906. An advocate of education and equality of rights for women, he was also one of the first members of the Po Leung Kuk, an association looking after the interest of teenage girls and women, in Singapore.The son of Tan Choon Sian, he was born in Malacca in 1850 and educated in Penang. After graduation, he came to Singapore to join Messrs Lim Kong Wan & Sons as a shipping clerk, and later as a storekeeper in a Borneo company. In his years working, he learnt the shipping trade, and went on to become a director of the Straits Steamship Co Ltd until his death in 1909.. }
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- Tan_Keong_Saik abstract "Tan Keong Saik (Chinese: 陈恭锡; pinyin: Chén Gōngxī; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân Kiong-sik) was a Singaporean businessman who contributed much to the social and intellectual life of the Chinese community at the turn of the 19th century. He was one of the men who contributed to the setting up of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in 1906. An advocate of education and equality of rights for women, he was also one of the first members of the Po Leung Kuk, an association looking after the interest of teenage girls and women, in Singapore.The son of Tan Choon Sian, he was born in Malacca in 1850 and educated in Penang. After graduation, he came to Singapore to join Messrs Lim Kong Wan & Sons as a shipping clerk, and later as a storekeeper in a Borneo company. In his years working, he learnt the shipping trade, and went on to become a director of the Straits Steamship Co Ltd until his death in 1909.".