Mr Chia of Chew Enterprise and Miss Cheah of S.M. Teknik Seri Manjung actually share the same surname eventhough the Romanized spelling differs. The Chinese character, 谢 or Xie in Mandarin is the same. It could be that the people at the registrar of births coming up with their own way to spell the word. Other Chinese variations for this surname that I know of are Xie, Xia, Tze, Tse, , Shei, Shieh, Shea, Hsieh, Sia, Zia and Chea. In Korean, this surname is Sa 사.
I share the Cheah 謝 family name or surname with about 2 million people in this world, with most of them living in southern China. This surname literally means "thanks".
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