By Leong Weng Kam & April Chong

LEADING Chinese business and community leader Teo Soo Chuan, who founded See Hoy Chan, Singapore's largest rice importer, died yesterday after a long illness. He was 90.

He is survived by six children and 16 grandchildren.

His eldest son, Mr Teo Chiang Long, who is the president of Ngee Ann Kongsi, told The Straits Times that his father died of 'old-age-related diseases' in his Leedon Road home yesterday at about 8.30am.

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