The Ho Hong Foreign Exchange Training Program
The opening of the Shanghai office offered opportunities to send Bank staff there to experience modern exchange operations, a far-sighted policy, the brainchild of Lim Peng Siang and Seow Poh Leng. Among those sent over to learn under the program implemented by Ko Leong Hoe and Dr. H. L. Huang, were Tan Eng Hooi, Tan Eng Leong, Chua Keh Hai, Kwa Siew Tee, Hooi Yip Beng, Tan Chwee Lee and Yeo Tiam Siew.
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