Mona Fong Yat Wah

Mona Fong Yat Wah (Mona Fong Yat Wah) was born on July 27, 1934, formerly known as Li Menglan, also known as Fang Menghua, born in Shanghai, Run Run Shaw's second wife, Hong Kong female singer, media worker and administrator, former Shaw Brothers Deputy Chairman of Film Corporation and Non-Executive Director of Television Broadcasts Limited. Shao Fangyihua was born in Shanghai. Due to a poor family, Fang Yihua dropped out of junior high school. She loved English songs and made friends with foreign bands, so in 1950 she chose to go to Singapore and Malaysia to perform on stage and launch her singing career. In 1952, at the age of 18, Fong Yat-wah met Shaw while on stage. Later, Fang Yihua also sang in the United States and the Philippines, and recorded records in Manila, Philippines. It was not until the late 1950s that Fang Yihua signed a contract with EMI Records and released many English songs, among which the best-selling and most popular one was "Flower Moon". In 1957, at the age of 50, Mona Fong Yat Wah was one of the founders of the training center of Shaw Brothers Film and Television Company, which she started to join after Run Run Shaw returned to Hong Kong. From 1969, Fong Yat-wah officially signed a contract to join Shaw Brothers Film Company. In the early days of her media administration career, she was mainly responsible for material procurement and financial management, and later she further participated in film production and other work. She was appointed as a director of Shaw Brothers in 1981, promoted to managing director in 1996, and concurrently served as vice chairman of the company in 2001. In addition, as early as 1988, Fong Yihua had also joined the board of directors of TVB, a major subsidiary of Shaw Brothers. By 2000, Fang Yihua began to gradually participate in the daily business of Wireless and was appointed as Vice Chairman of Wireless on October 25 of the same year. On May 31, 2006, she was appointed as the acting managing director by Wireless Wireless and officially became the managing director on January 1, 2009. On January 1, 2010, she took over as the executive chairman of TVB, the Hong Kong wireless television station. As of February 11, 2012, Fang Yihua resigned from the TVB board of directors as vice chairman and managing director, and resigned on March 25. Fang Yihua's health had no major problems until June 2017, when she was hospitalized. The last public appearance was at the 2017 Shaw Award Ceremony on September 26 of the same year. One week before her death, she was still energetic and attended company meetings. However, at 5:28 pm on November 22, 2017, Fong Yat-wah died of sepsis at the Happy Valley Sanatorium and Hospital at the age of 83.