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Here's the article in Lowyat quoted by Her Majesty Ho Ching

The Yeoh Family Of Ipoh !LEGACY!
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The Yeoh Family Of Ipoh - The Famous Drinking Family


There are three prominent Ipoh families, the Yeohs, the Lims and the Chews which are connected by marriage, so much so that they are often referred together as the “Yeoh-Lim-Chew” families. “Yeoh-Lim-Chew”, as every Hokkien knows, sounds like “The Yeohs (love to) drink wine” - and that perhaps sums up the characteristics of the most famous family of Ipoh : brilliant, sociable and successful.

The patriarch, Yeoh Khuan Joo, was born in 1872 in the town of Tong An, Quan Zhou district of Fujian province, China. He started schooling at the age of seven, but had to stop five years later when his father passed away. Although he resumed schooling at the age of sixteen, it was only for a year as the following year, he had to earn his livelihood by going into trade in his native village, exchanging yarn for fabric. Later he teamed up with his elder brother to deal in all types of textiles in a neighbouring town.


As the market was limited, he decided to set off for Malaya in 1899 at the age of 27 to seek better opportunities.

Upon arrival in Ipoh, he worked as a clerk in a trading firm. Five months later he was given an additional responsibility, doubling as a manager as well. A year later his employer transferred him to Kampar to take complete charge of the business there. After one year in Kampar, he sent in his resignation. He came back to Ipoh to start his own business in a rented shop and with a capital of a few hundred dollars, dealing with imported household goods and commodities. Being thrifty and industrious, his business grew from strength to strength.

At the age of 31, he married Lim Siew Tong, the sister of Lim Seok Tan, who had arrived in Malaya in 1895 from the village of Che Ling, Guanqiao town, Fujian province.


Seok Tan had set up a provision shop in Tapah, which was providential, as his shop supplied the provisions not only for Tapah but also Cameron Highlands, which was then developing. The Lim clan of Tapah prospered.


The Ipoh clan is represented by the grandsons of Lim Seok Tan, namely Dato KK Lim, the leading industrialist and developer, and Tun Dr. Lim Keng Yaik 敦林敬益医生 the Energy, Water and Communications Minister.

Yeoh Khuan Joo had four sons and daughters. Of the sons, the eldest, Yeoh Ghim Khoon, was a businessman and founded the Ipoh Omnibus Company while the second, Yeoh Ghim Cheow, was a partner of the stock broking firm, Botly and Company.

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The third son, Prof. Yeoh Ghim Seng杨锦成, was the most illustrious, becoming Professor of Surgery at the university of Singapore, Speaker of the Singapore Parliament and Acting President of Singapore.



The youngest, Dr. Yeoh Ghim Leong, became a radiologist in Hawaii.

Of the daughters, the youngest, Yeoh Suan Bee, married Chew Choon Kok, a son of the wealthy tin miner, Chew Boon Juan (Vicinity Perak, Dec 2005). A daughter of Boon Juan, Chew Gaik Tiew, married Yeoh Ghim Cheow.

Of the third generation Yeohs, the sons of Yeoh Ghim Khoon杨锦坤 take the limelight.

He had six sons, of whom the eldest is Dato’ Yeoh Kian Hin, now deceased, was a director of Tasek Corporation Berhad. Three sons became surgeons in Singapore, Dr. Yeoh Kian Seng ( Plastic Surgery). Prof. Yeoh Kian Hong ( Orthopaedic Surgery) and Prof. Yeoh Kian Hian (ENT Surgery).

Prof. Yeoh Ghim Seng had five daughters, of whom one, Dr. Yeoh Saw Cheng, became a doctor and married a surgeon, Dr. Lee Boon Teik.


Another daughter, Yeoh Saw Kheng楊素瓊, married Mr.Robert Ng Chee Siong, son of the property tycoon, Singapore's richest man Ng Teng Fong.



Singapore’s richest man and property tycoon Ng Teng Fong died early on February 2, 2010.He was 82.



Mr. Robert Ng Chee Siong
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TAN SRI Michelle Yeoh 's auntie is Singapore's richest man's wife!!!!


Of course, the most famous Yeoh of all, and arguably the most famous Malaysian abroad, is TAN SRI Michelle Yeoh, the celebrated film star, daughter of Dato’ Yeoh Kian Teik.

Born on August, 6th , 1962. Yeoh Choo Kheng received her early education at the Convent. At the age of 15, she went to an England boarding school. Later she entered the London Royal Academy of Dance, majoring in ballet. However, a spinal injury prevented her from realising her ambition of becoming a ballerina. In 1982 she received her BA in Creative Arts. On a holiday home in 1983, she found that her mother had entered her for the Miss Malaysia competition. At the age of 21 she became Miss Malaysia, a stepping-stone to stardom in Hong Kong. Featuring early as a martial arts actress, she graduated to serious dramatic roles. With such credits as Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon; The Soong Sisters; and Memoirs of a Geisha, she is the highest paid female actress in Hong Kong, and also the first to make real inroads into the West, starring in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies. She is one of the very few Malaysians to have made an impact on the global scene.

Being the eldest son of the eldest son of the patriarch, Dato’ Yeoh Kian Teik holds the torch for the Yeoh clan. The annual reunion of the clan takes place in Ipoh on the occasion of his birthday. Celebrating his 80th birthday this year, Dato’ Yeoh can count his blessings. Among his 16 children by four wives are, besides Michelle.

When Yeoh Khuan Joo first arrived in Malaya, he found that his forefathers in China had not provide a list of characters known as the Zhao Mu to be used in naming the future generations of his genealogical line. He undertook to formulate his own Zhao Mu so that his own descendants would be able to trace the order of generations and locate their respective positions in the genealogical line, even though they be scattered over the four faces of the earth. His Zhao Mu consists of ten lines containing five characters each, one to be used for each generation, covering slightly over 1000 years. He exhorted his descendants, if his own Zhao Mu was exhausted in about a millennium, they were to prepare a similar Zhao Mu to cover the next millennium, and so on unto infinity.

He left a Testament, confirming his secret of success:


“From my youth till my autumn days, I have never indulged in vices such as womanizing and gambling. In my business dealings as well as social activities, I adhere strictly to the principle of honesty, always treating others with sincerity. On occasions when I have been deceived or swindled, I refrain from plunging into fights, physical or legal. Instead I exert self-control and practice tolerance, persuading myself to accept the situation or loss. Eventually, confrontation and disputes are avoided to the benefit of all parties concerned. It is hoped that my descendents will take heed of my exhortation and try to emulate their ancestors in the virtues of honesty and sincerity.”


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Perak MB YAB Dato' Seri Dr. Zambry Abdul Kadir, Hollywood superstar Dato' Michelle Yeoh, her niece and mother Datin Janet Yeoh

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闪耀的起点

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颜值、财富和人脉,是走近基因所赋予星二代的最佳遗产。杨惠淇Vicki Yeoh从诞生那一刻起,便注定了她是富与美的开始。家族是怡保望族,亲姑姑是国际巨星丹斯里杨紫琼,她走在荣耀的起点。


现年23岁的Vicki,毕业于伦敦艺术大学,主修媒体与文化研究。曾祖父杨锦坤是商界闻人,30年代创立近打巴士公司;祖父拿督杨建德负笈英国,回马后成为执业律师,拥有当时全霹雳最大的律师楼,也曾担任霹雳律师公会主席。他创办利南巴士公司,开创马泰新巴士运载路线。

杨家第三代最闪耀的星星就是丹斯里杨紫琼。对Vicki而言,姑姑是她的一切,也是影响她最深的人:“姑姑在我生命中扮演了很重要的角色,她是我父亲的姐姐,是我最亲密的长辈。她拉拔我长大,教导我们如何守礼仪懂规矩,她把世界带给我们,让我认识电影和时尚的光彩。”




Dato’ Yeoh Kian Teik – Legal Stalwart and Transport Mogul

When one of your 18 children is an international superstar, you have every reason to rest on your laurels but not Dato’ Yeoh Kian Teik, father of Bond girl Datuk Michelle Yeoh and one of Ipoh’s most loyal residents. Where his 6 other siblings have flourished elsewhere, Kian Teik remained behind in Ipoh, carrying on his father’s transportation business and becoming a transportation mogul in his own right.

Kian Teik is a second-generation Yeoh to call St Michael’s Institution his alma mater, his whole family from his father to all his five brothers being alumni. From high school, Kian Teik went on to study law at Lincoln’s Inn in the UK, returning to Ipoh to start his legal practice and continue in the transport industry in which his father was a founding member in 1937 and responsible for setting up of the town bus.



There are 128 Sri Maju buses travelling in Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, with 14 direct branches and 10 agents selling the bus tickets for your convenience.

Sri Maju buses include the regular 36-seaters, or the 25-seaters.
There is also the high decker of 21-seaters called Mega Luxurious buses for those who want a little bit more extra during long journeys – this comes with personal TV screens and individual entertainment system that includes the best movies and music.

He remained as a Director on the 3 transport companies, the General Omnibus, Kinta Omnibus and Reliance Omnibus for many years. Kian Teik set up Sri Maju, an executive coach service, in 1975 with the Ipoh-Singapore routing.


Today Sri Maju plies the highways from Hatyai, Thailand, in the north to Singapore in the south with many stops at major cities and towns in between.

Less Hectic Lifestyle

In a career that spans almost sixty years, Kian Teik who is now 84, can still be seen at his desk at the Sri Maju’s office in 2,4 & 6, Jalan Bendahara,IPOH taking care of business as his staff walk in and out demanding his attention on various matters.

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His law firm is now in the hands of one of his daughters and Kian Teik who was Chairman of the Perak Bar Association on and off for many years, says he doesn’t miss practicing law and now prefers a less hectic lifestyle, working mornings and spending his afternoons on leisure activities which may include playing mahjong and hobbies around fish, whether sea fishing or breeding and watching aquarium fish.

“The only thing I miss about my law practice is the legal fights I used to have with the Seenivasagam brothers, be it in court or in the political arena”, he admitted. “It was thoroughly enjoyable – total no-holds-barred-battles – and we would remain good friends in and out of the courts”, he added.

Computer Savvy

The day I visited Kian Teik in his office, he was sitting at his desk peering into his computer. “No fear of technology for this 84 year-old” I thought to myself, and went on to discover that this is his way of staying in touch with his pan-global family of 18 children and 39 grandchildren, the fruit of a colourful personal life.


“I started using a computer when I bought a computer for one of my grandsons who was six years old at the time. He became my computer coach and today I communicate with my extended family, aside from family gatherings, through email and Skype.”

Significant Moments

When asked about significant moments in his long and illustrious career as one of the legal stalwarts of Ipoh, Kian Teik proudly pointed to a framed photograph on the wall beside him and said, “meeting with Tunku Abdul Rahman in 1970”, further identifying Tun Sambanthan and Tun Razak and Tun Ismail in the same picture.



He was active in the MCA for many years adding that “in those days, we had to take money out of our own pockets to support the party”. He was also a Member of the Senate from 1959 till 1969.


Kian Teik is particularly proud of his role in ensuring that nomination papers for both State and general elections were always properly filled out and no seats were ever lost in Perak, unlike what happened in some other states, owing to faulty nomination papers. This was a responsibility he fulfilled till 1995 and to date the untarnished record still exists as testimony to his meticulous stewardship.

Humble Homily

When questioned on the oft touted topic of his influence on the career of his celebrity daughter Michelle Yeoh, he modestly demurred and said, “Her talent speaks for itself. All I have ever emphasised to her is to be humble and friendly. That no matter how successful she becomes on the world stage, to remember that we’re all born equal and there is no need to be high and mighty.


I teach all my children this same homily”. And judging by the few exchanges I’ve had with Michelle Yeoh, I can certainly vouch for the efficacy of Kian Teik’s teaching to his daughter for she is without doubt one of the most down-to-earth superstars one could ever have the pleasure of meeting. An abiding legacy from one of Ipoh’s living legends.

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She is trying to gain by saying Singapore has collected yeohs family aside from Michelle Yeoh. Also she is insinuating that the Lee family is as glam as Yeoh
 
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