Teddy Yip (businessman)

Theodore Yip (Chinese: 葉德利; pinyin: Yè Délì; Jyutping: jip6 dak1 lei6) was an Indonesian-Dutch businessman who was instrumental in developing Macau as a tourist destination and who was a Formula One team owner in the 1970s.

In this Chinese name, the family name is 葉 (Ye).
Theodore Yip
葉德利
Born
Jap Tek Lie

(1907-06-02)2 June 1907
Medan, Dutch East Indies
Died11 July 2003(2003-07-11) (aged 96)
Hong Kong
Other namesTeddy Yip

Early life and business career

Yip spoke many languages including six Chinese variants (most notably Hakka being his native tongue, Mandarin and Cantonese due to his residence in Hong Kong and Macau), Dutch (through his life experience during the Dutch colonial rule and the owning of his Dutch citizenship), English, French, German, Malay (Indonesian) (since he was born and spent his childhood in Indonesia prior his move to the Netherlands for his studies) and Thai which helped him expand his businesses into property and finance.[1]

Family

In December 2018, Willy Yip, the oldest son of Teddy Yip, died in a school bus crash at North Point, Hong Kong that killed four other people on 10 December 2018. He succumbed to his injuries from the accident at Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital in Chai Wan.[2]

Footnotes

    References
    1. Glick, Shav. "Yep, the Man Named Yip Was Unforgettable". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
    2. "Teddy Yip's oldest son dies of injuries from HK school bus crash". Macau Post Daily. 2019-01-16.

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