Low Kim Pong

He came to Singapore in 1858 as a general trader, and founded Chop Ban San, a medical store, after meeting with success.He then met Venerable Xian Hui, who was returning to Fujian after a six-year pilgrimage in Sri Lanka.Low believed that Xian Hui was the man he encountered in his dream, and persuaded him to stay in Singapore.[4] For his seventieth birthday, an evening party was held to celebrate the event and over one hundred Europeans attended.As he did not leave a will, multiple people claimed to be his next of kin in order to inherit his estate as he owned a large amount of property.
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