Hauw Tek Kong
Hauw Tek Kong () (1887-1928) was a Peranakan Chinese newspaper editor and publisher from the Dutch East Indies associated with Sin Po and later Keng Po. Biography Hauw Tek Kong was born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies in 1887. He is thought to have studied at the Anglo-Chinese School in Singapore. Around 1908 he became interested in silent film theatres and became director of a company aiming to open one in Batavia, the Solar Bioscope Company Ltd.. This company purchased the equipment that same year and toured it around various temporary venues in Batavia and as far afield as Bogor before having a permanent location built for it in Meester Cornelis by 1910. The films shown at the Solar Bioscore included English productions and those produced by Pathé. Sin Po In 1913, when Oey Tjioe Yong, the former director of the popular Indies Chinese newspaper Sin Po stepped down, Hauw, who was already a major shareholder in the paper, was appointed in his place. Under his tenure the paper became embroiled in a high-profile feud with some more conservative elements of the Chinese community due to its criticism of the colonial Chinese Officer system. That feud resulted in calls to