Frank Tsao | |||||||||||||
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| Born | Tsao Wen-king 1925 | ||||||||||||
| Died | (aged 94) | ||||||||||||
| Alma mater | St. John's University, Shanghai | ||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Entrepreneur, philanthropist | ||||||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 曹文錦 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 曹文锦 | ||||||||||||
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Tan Sri Frank Tsao Wen-king (Chinese: 曹文錦; 1925 – 12 August 2019) was a Chinese-born entrepreneur who established shipping and textiles businesses in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.
Tsao took over his family shipping business in Shanghai and moved it to Hong Kong when the Communists took over China. He founded International Maritime Carriers (IMC Group) in Hong Kong, before moving it to Singapore in the early 1990s.
Tsao helped build Singapore into an international shipping hub, and co-founded MISC and Unithai, the national shipping companies of Malaysia and Thailand, respectively, as well as Suntec City in Singapore. For his contributions, he was awarded the nobility title Tan Sri by the King of Malaysia, the Silver Bauhinia Star of Hong Kong, and the Honorary Citizen Award, Singapore's highest honour for non-citizens.
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