Mother, grandmother, journalist, lifelong student. Born November 26, 1937 in Hong Kong; passed away on June 24, 2021, in Toronto, of advanced Parkinson's disease, aged 83. 

Manyee is reunited with her mother Pui Fong Tam, father Wing Leung and her siblings Alvin, David and Henry.

Remembered by family, friends, colleagues, her sister Kit Wan, daughter Toni, son in law Dan and grandchildren Oliver, Charlie & Marlowe.  

From reporting for a communist-leaning paper in Hong Kong, to marrying a "white ghost" foreigner, working as an au pair in England, co-founding "Business In Thailand" magazine in Bangkok, assisting US-China trade relations in Washington, along with developing a deep interest in Buddhism and meditation in her later years, Manyee was unafraid to explore new things and face new challenges.

Reporter with "Wen Wei Pao," a Hong Kong Chinese daily from 1958 to 1966.

Covering Hong Kong's music festival was Manyee's favourite beat. Over the years she had the opportunity to meet the Beatles, Charlie Chaplin and other fascinating, knowledgeable people making headlines. "Manyee" was the pen name she adopted at the newspaper and it stuck.

She encouraged her daughter to go into journalism, and was very happy when Toni chose the related field of public relations. In a letter to Maxwell Brem, her ex husband (also a journalist), she writes, "She will make a glamorous and fun job out of it in the future. She has the personality. There is one more favour I would like to ask - please show her how you do your very clear style of writing..." 

Many of her hopes for Toni echoed the life she had as a reporter. It explains why she kept her pen name; "Manyee" best represented her preferred self image.   

In 1975 she flew from Washington DC (where she had a job at the US-China Trade Council) to Hong Kong to pick her adopted daughter Toni (birth name Tung Nei Lam).

She was denied entry back into the US so settled in Toronto, Canada and created a new life. A new immigrant, she was underemployed and always working. She worked full time for The Co-operators and supplemented her income by doing the books for 2 orthodontists in the evening and most weekends. It wasn't always easy and she made many sacrifices.

I'm grateful she chose me. She was a wonderful mother.

Thank you to Koriza, Dr Birmingham and the team at Chester Village for caring so well at the end of her life.