UOB raises S$1.6m for charities

Singapore

MORE than 1,200 business owners from the region joined United Overseas Bank at its annual Group Commercial Banking Lunar New Year client dinner on Feb 21.

UOB deputy chairman and chief executive officer Wee Ee Cheong launched the night's fundraising activities with a silent auction of Abundance, a specially-commissioned pottery piece from renowned potter and ceramacist Iskandar Jalil.