![]() ![]() The eldest brother Kee Hui had followed in his father’s footsteps, and dad in turn had followed brothers Kee Hui and Kee Chong into the agriculture department.ĭuring his long years in the Fisheries Department, Dad had had the opportunity to study advanced methods and cultures of fish farming on a commercial basis and had gone to Canada, Taiwan, Japan, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) for seminars and training. Papa’s father Ong Kwan Hin was a very trusted Kapitan Cina (Chinese chief) of the Hokkien community in Kuching He was also the administrator of three of the city’s largest Buddhist/Taoist temples and chairman of the Hokkien Association and the Chinese Chamber of Commerce. He could not take an active role in the multiracial party as he was then a civil servant serving as head of inland fisheries at the Ministry of Agriculture. #Flight to sarawak seriesIn fact, he was interviewed for several segments of the recent television series entitled Road to Nationhood (Sarawak Reclaimed), produced by Rack Focus Films in 2017. He was there in the early days of the founding of Sarawak’s oldest political party, the Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP), in 1959 by his eldest (and closest) brother, the late Tan Sri Ong Kee Hui. Born on February 22, 1926, he had lived through the ravages of World War II and lived through the eras from Brooke rule to the British colonialists to the new Malay rulers – also known as Malaysia after 1963. My father had lived a long, eventful, successful, and highly fulfilling life. He had died of “old age”, which is now an acceptable “cause of death” following the death of Queen Elizabeth II on 8 September 2022 – also Her Majesty was 96 and both were from a forgotten time. ![]() ![]() My father Edwin Ong Kee Bian passed away on Thursday 6th October 2022 at Sarawak Heart Center Geriatric Ward. The columnist with his father at a recent photo op. ![]()
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