Cathay Organisation survived a world war and dwindling fortunes in the face of changing viewing habits, among other things. Today, the movie company stands tall as a pioneer and celebrates its 75th anniversary in style.
IT was quite a statement of intent when a 17-storey building was erected in Singapore in 1939 (the tallest in South-East Asia at the time). But that was always Cathay Organisation founder, the late Datuk Loke Wan Tho’s sense of ambition – he knew that in order to dream and think big, you had to act big.