Ang Kok Kian – Pioneer of Soap Industry

Ang Kok Kian – A Pioneer of the Soap industry by Ang Yik Han It is not clear if Ang Kok Kian (洪轂堅) grew up in Penang or he travelled there from his ancestral village in Nan’an county, Fujian province. During the 1910s, he moved to Taiping with his family but left after two years for Singapore, where he felt there were better prospects. Of the businesses he established in Singapore, the most successful was the See Sen Soap Factory […]

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