Ong Soo Hin

Ong Soo Hin is a Malaysian Chinese businessman and head of a salvaging company in south-east Asia.

In 1996, Ong Soo Hin teamed up with Oxford University archaeologist Mensun Bound to work with Vietnam's National History Museum in excavating the Hoi An Wreck site off the coast of Hoi An, Vietnam. The project took four years and costed an estimated $14 million. Over 250,000 intact examples of Vietnamese ceramic were recovered.

External links

• New York Times article on Ong Soo Hin's salvage operation

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