 By the end of the 1970s, Wee was also chairman of Haw Par Brothers International and the Chinese newspaper Sin Chew Jit Poh, and sat on the boards of the Development Bank of Singapore (DBS), Sime Darby and Straits Steamship Company.The UOB group continued to grow in the 1980s, acquiring Far Eastern Bank and the Industrial and Commercial Bank.Wee took UOB into stockbroking, fund management and futures trading, and acquired property including hotels and shopping malls.