Lawrence Ting

Lawrence Ting
丁善理
Born(1939-01-25)January 25, 1939
Qingdao, Republic of China
DiedSeptember 23, 2004(2004-09-23) (aged 65)
Taipei, Taiwan
OccupationBusinessman
Known forFounder of Phu My Hung Corporation

Lawrence Ting Shan-li (Chinese: 丁善理; Vietnamese: Đinh Thiện Lý; January 25, 1939 – September 23, 2004) was a Taiwanese decorated soldier and businessman who became one of the largest foreign investors in Vietnam.[1] As founder of Phu My Hung Corporation and Saigon South Urban Development Project, Ting was instrumental in the southward expansion of Ho Chi Minh City.[2][3] Today, the neighborhood created by Ting has become “a new sustainable, inclusive, knowledge-based urban center.”[4]

Ting received the Ho Chi Minh City Medal of Honor in 1993[5] and Certificates of Merit of the Government of Vietnam from the Prime Minister in 1997 and 2001.[6][7][8] In the 2013 Harvard Business Review article The Big Idea, Building Sustainable Cities, John Macomber of Harvard Business School chose Phu My Hung's Saigon South Development Project as one of the leading sustainable urban development examples in the world.[9][10] He was posthumously bestowed the Friendship Order from President Nguyen Minh Triet in December 2007.[11][12][13]

Founded in 2008, Lawrence S. Ting School (Vietnamese: Trường THCS và THPT Đinh Thiện Lý) in Ho Chi Minh City, a private non-profit middle and high school, is named after him.[14][15][16] In 2020, Taipei American School named its middle school Lawrence S. Ting Middle School in honor of Ting.[17]

  1. ^ 張瓊芳 (2007). "台商打造越南天母──富美興" [Taiwanese Entrepreneurs Build a Vietnamese Tienmu]. Taiwan Panorama (台灣光華雜誌) (in Chinese and English). No. September 2007. Translated by Williams, Scott.
  2. ^ Harms, Erik (2016). Luxury and Rubble: Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon. Univ of California Press. pp. 52–55. ISBN 9780520292512.
  3. ^ Mydans, Seth (November 17, 2006). "Ho Chi Minh City on cusp of greatness - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune". The New York Times.
  4. ^ Kelly, Colm (2019). "Repurposing economies—and businesses" (PDF). www.pwc.com/gx/en/issues/trust/common-purpose.html. PwC. p. 12. Retrieved 2020-08-28. The Saigon South Urban Development Project in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, also adopted a dedicated focus on job creation, education and infrastructure investments, and has built up a new sustainable, inclusive, knowledge-based urban centre. There, an area of swamp land with no road access, water or electricity has been transformed to create a liveable, sustainable city.
  5. ^ Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee, Ho Chi Minh City Medal of Honor, No. 0860/KT-TP, July 10, 1993
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  7. ^ Government of Vietnam, Prime Minister Phan Văn Khải, Certificate of Merit of the Government of Vietnam, No. 1242/TTg, September 17, 2001
  8. ^ 嚴慧玲; 陳宜汝; 廖詩文; 洪雅雯, eds. (2005). 謹把這裡作故鄉 (in Chinese). Taiwan. p. 53. ISBN 9789868193000.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  9. ^ Macomber, John. "Building Sustainable Cities". Harvard Business Review (HBR). No. July–August 2013. Harvard Business Publishing. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
  10. ^ Macomber, John; Dawn, Lau (2013-02-20). "Phu My Hung". hbr.org/. Harvard Business Publishing. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
  11. ^ Socialist Republic of Vietnam, State President Nguyễn Minh Triết, Friendship Medal of Vietnam, Decision #1681/2007, December 28, 2007
  12. ^ Hồ Việt (2007-12-31). "Hoàn thành tuyến đường đô thị lớn nhất TPHCM". BÁO SÀI GÒN GIẢI PHÓNG (SGGP, or Liberated Saigon). Vietnam. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
  13. ^ 嚴慧玲; 陳宜汝; 廖詩文; 洪雅雯, eds. (2005). 謹把這裡作故鄉 (in Chinese). Taiwan. pp. 4–5. ISBN 9789868193000.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  14. ^ "PURPOSE OF ESTABLISHMENT". lsts.edu.vn/en/. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
  15. ^ "Trường học sáng tạo - Hành trình từ Việt Nam đến thế giới". BÁO DÂN TRÍ (DTiNews) (in Vietnamese). HCMC, Vietnam. 2010-11-23. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
  16. ^ "Trường THCS-THPT Đinh Thiện Lý: Dạy và học sáng tạo". BÁO SÀI GÒN GIẢI PHÓNG (SGGP, or Liberated Saigon) (in Vietnamese). HCMC, Vietnam. 2012-11-01. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
  17. ^ "Our Campus". www.tas.edu.tw/. Taipei American School. Retrieved 2020-12-08. The campus is wireless to service our IT needs as a one-to-one laptop school in the Walter and Shirley Fan'86 Wang Lower School Grades 3-5, as well as the Lawrence S. Ting Middle School and Dr. Sharon DiBartolomeo Hennessy Upper Schools.