[5] Ong also owns a significant proportion of Mulberry shares,[1] and a number of properties on Bond Street in London.
[11] The Italian Trade Commission said in a press release that the Award was in recognition of Ong's accomplishments and leadership skills in the fashion world.
The others went to the historian Wang Gungwu and Tony Chew, inaugural chairman of the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School's governing board.
[13] In 2014, Ong was included in the inaugural Singapore Women's Hall of Fame, which described her as a "global fashion entrepreneur and luxury hotelier.
[15] Ong is the daughter of Peter Fu Yun Siak, an early employer of her husband and founder of Kuo International.