Family businesses

Prolonged rolling blackouts squeeze small businesses in Kalimantan

Blackouts across parts of Kalimantan have dealt a heavy blow to small businesses.

Thailand’s Singha beer scion’s mum drops ‘ungrateful child’ lawsuit against him

21-year-old becomes funeral director to take the lead in family business

Shane Tan is 21 years old and recently took over from his father as the funeral director at SG 24 Hour Funeral Services.

Cellini turns 40: How a Singaporean scholar’s European summer built the local furniture empire

The three-generation Cellini family include founder-chairman Tan Cheng Whatt; his daughter and regional marketing director Janice Tan; son-in-law and group managing director Jason Hong; and grandson Tyrus Hong who joined the company in June as a product designer.

Tastemakers

No time for romance as Cheng Hui Jie steers $1m Bumbu Restaurant towards 30-year milestone

Bumbu Restaurant's general manager Cheng Hui Jie at the Kandahar Street outlet.

‘I felt like dying’: Thai Singha beer scion speaks up after disclosure of alleged sexual abuse

Psi Samut Scott, scion of Thailand’s Singha beer empire, went public with his story, shattering deep-seated cultural taboos in a conservative society fiercely protective of hierarchy and family reputation.

Teo Siong Seng won’t seek re-election as SBF chairman, takes leave of absence from PIL, NUS

Mr Teo Siong Seng said he does not plan to seek re-election once his term as SBF chairman ends on June 24.

Mango father-son rift over inheritance cited in heir bail order

Mr Jonathan Andic being escorted to court in Martorell, near Barcelona, after his arrest on May 19. He was on a hike with his father, when the older Andic fell over 100m off a cliff.

Thai beer heir sacked after brother’s abuse accusations

(From left) Sunit “Pi” Scott, Siranudh “Psi” Scott. One of Thailand’s richest men dismissed his cousin from the Singha beer business empire, after a controversy over allegations that Sunit had sexually abused his own brother.

The ‘surname ceiling’ holding back family companies

The reality is that families are as mixed, and as mixed up, as owners of other companies — and sometimes more so.

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