Kasim Tuet
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Kazim Wilson Tuet Wai-sin (1919–1990), commonly known as Kasim Tuet or Wilson Tuet, was a Chinese entrepreneur who played a major role in the development of Islam in Hong Kong.{{citation |language=zh-hant |url=http://www.islam.org.hk/big5/news/ReadNews.asp?NewsID=197&BigClassID=51&SmallClassID=64&SpecialID=0 |periodical=Hong Kong Noor Al-Islam |script-title=zh:愛國愛教、熱心公益的回族企業家脫維善先生 |trans-title=Mr. Kasim Tuet, a Hui entrepreneur who loved his country, loved his religion, and contributed to the public welfare |date=2002-01-21 |access-date=2010-08-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726112756/http://www.islam.org.hk/big5/news/ReadNews.asp?NewsID=197&BigClassID=51&SmallClassID=64&SpecialID=0 |archive-date=2011-07-26 |url-status=dead }}{{citation|url=http://daga.dhs.org/daga/readingroom/newsclips/2004/wto/41020scmp05.htm|periodical=South China Morning Post|date=2004-10-20|access-date=2010-08-09|last=Terry|first=Edith|title=Cleaning up their corporate act|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716154707/http://daga.dhs.org/daga/readingroom/newsclips/2004/wto/41020scmp05.htm|archive-date=2011-07-16|url-status=dead}}{{citation|last=Cottrell|first=Jill|title=The Law of Defamation|url=http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkjo/view/14/1400153.pdf|pages=38–68|publisher=Hong Kong Law Journal|journal=Law Lectures for Practitioners|year=1992|volume=19|access-date=2010-08-09}} He was one of the pioneers of Chinese Muslim education in the city.{{citation|chapter=Hui diaspora|title=Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World|pages=113–124|last=Wang Ma|first=Rosey|editor-first=Melvin|editor-last=Ember|editor2-first=Carol R.|editor2-last=Ember|editor3-first=Ian|editor3-last=Skoggard|publisher=Springer|year=2004|isbn=978-0-306-48321-9}}{{citation |language=zh-hans |script-title=zh:记香港中华回教博爱社主席脱志贤先生 |trans-title=Remembering Hong Kong Chinese Muslim Cultural and Fraternal Association Chairman Tuet Che-yin |url=http://dev.gansudaily.com.cn/system/2009/09/29/011291862.shtml|date=2009-09-29|access-date=2010-08-09|periodical=Gansu Daily}}
Background and life
Tuet was a member of a Hui family of Gansu origin. He was born in Canton (now Guangzhou) on 18 December 1919. He followed his father to Hong Kong while still a boy; after graduating from the Kadoorie Academy ({{lang|zh-hant|嘉道理學院}}), his first job was in the carpark of the Repulse Bay Hotel. He was elected as chairman of the Chinese Muslim Cultural and Fraternal Association of Hong Kong in 1951. He founded one of the city's earliest cleaning companies in 1953.{{citation |language=zh-hant |periodical=Wen Wei Po|date=2005-04-21|access-date=2010-08-09 |script-title=zh:脫瑞康由倒垃圾升格環保巨擘 |trans-title=Tuet Sui-hong, from garbageman to environmental protector |url=http://paper.wenweipo.com/2005/04/21/HK0504210019.htm}} Towards the end of his life, he served on the Hong Kong Basic Law Consultative Committee and the 7th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He died of illness in 1990.
Legacy
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The Islamic Kasim Tuet Memorial College is named for Tuet. His nephew Ayyub Tuet Che-yin ({{lang|zh-hant|脱志賢}}) also went on to serve as a chairman of the Chinese Muslim Fraternal and Cultural Association. And his son, Ali Tuet Sui-hong ({{lang|zh-hant|脫瑞康}}), continues to chair the company his father founded, reinventing it as a green company focused on environmental protection, and expanding it to over 6,000 employees.{{citation |language=zh-hant |url=http://paper.wenweipo.com/2005/04/21/HK0504210021.htm|date=2005-04-21|access-date=2010-08-09 |script-title=zh:真誠回教徒純正香港人 |trans-title=A sincere Muslim and a true Hong Kong person |periodical=Wen Wei Po}}
References
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Category:Hong Kong businesspeople
Category:Hong Kong people of Hui descent
Category:Businesspeople from Guangzhou
Category:Hong Kong Civic Association politicians
Category:Hong Kong Basic Law Consultative Committee members
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