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There's a several-page write-up about Mr Kwik starting on page 469 of "Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent: A Biographical Dictionary ...". It begins:

Owner of a large trading company dealing in sugar, rice and tea before WWII, Indonesia.

"MR. TONG LAI CHUEN, J.P., who occupies the post of compradore to the Holland-China Trading Company, is a native of the Hungshan district of China. His father, a well-known merchant both in that district and in the neighbouring Portuguese Colony of Macao, was for many years connected with the Yun Loong tea hong of the latter place. Mr. Tong Lai Chuen has resided in Hongkong for upwards of thirty-three years, and during that time has been actively connected with several companies.

Dr Sun Zhongshan (Yat-sen) is generally considered to be the founder of the Chinese Republic (1911) and one of the most important figures in modern Chinese history.

He graduated from the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese in 1892 and at one point thought about opening a pharmacy in the Colony.

Soong Ching-ling spent the years after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese war in 1937 in Chongqing and Hong Kong.

As the widow of Dr Sun Zhongshan (Yat-sen), generally seen as the founder of the Chinese Republic (1911) she was a very important figure in Hong Kong life - her China Defence League, for example, could draw the Governor and other important officials to its events.

Rosalina Marques d'Oliveira was in Hong Kong at the time of the Japanese attack in December 1941.

She accepted the offer of sanctuary to all Portuguese people made by the Macau Government and on March 10, 1942 was living at 5a, Rua de Penha, a property previously recorded as belonging to a Roman Catholic mission. She was unmarried at that time.

She was the half sister of Evelina Edgar.

She is believed to have emigrated to New Zealand at some point after the war.

Source:

Carl Smith Collection, Card No. 238359; Card No. 185599

Nationality: Chinese-British, Born Swatow 1903, Occupation: wireless operator.  BAAG April 43 – October 45.

Over 2 years faithful service as Wireless Operator at BAAG Forward Post.   Citation: by Colonel Ride

Based on her Russian descent, she wasn't interned after the Japanese conquered Hong Kong. Philip has written an interesting summary of her wartime experiences: 

https://battleforhongkong.blogspot.com/2018/12/eugenie-zaitzeff-descrip…