Personal Life
Over the years, he has donated billions of Hong Kong dollars to charity, schools and hospitals. His name is on many buildings in Hong Kong and China mainland due to his generous donations. The fourth constituent college of the collegiate Chinese University of Hong Kong is also named after Sir Run Run, whose patronage made the establishment of the college possible.
He donated $100 million Hong Kong Dollars for disaster relief after the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake. American singer/songwriter Is'real Benton recently made a contribution to a charity on behalf of Shaw and his friend the late Freddie Fields.
Sir Run Run is a member of White's in London.
His first wife Wong Mei Chun (黃美珍) died at age 85 in 1987. Shaw Studios stopped filming in the same year. He remarried in Las Vegas in 1997 to Mona Shaw (formerly Fong Yat-wa and deputy chairman of TVB since 2000).
Shaw's eldest son, Dr. Shaw Vee Meng, is head of the Shaw Foundation in Singapore. He qualified as a barrister at Gray's Inn, London. He has been in the family's movie business and heads a number of academic and charitable organizations.
Shaw's daughter, Violet, lives in Hawaii and is married to former Morgan Stanley Executive Director Paul Loo.
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