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2004 Democratic Party (HK) Leadership Election
The Democratic Party leadership election was held on 12 December 2004 for the 30-member of the 6th Central Committee of the Democratic Party in Hong Kong, including chairman and two vice-chairman posts. It was the first contested chairmanship election in the party's history. Legislative Council member and party's Vice-Chairman Lee Wing-tat defeated the Chan King-ming, succeeding Yeung Sum as the chairman of the party. Eligibility The Central Committee was elected by the party congress. All public office holders, including the members of the Legislative Council and District Councils, are eligible to vote in the party congress. Every 30 members can also elect a delegate who holds one vote in the congress. Overview Chairman Yeung Sum announced he would not seek for re-election after the party performed badly in the 2004 Hong Kong Legislative Council election in September.However, Albert Ho Chun-yan said he was not keen to run for the chairmanship because he was busy working fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Wing Tat
Lee Wing-tat (; born 25 December 1955) is a former Member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo), returned by direct election as representative of the New Territories West constituency. He was the former third Chairman of the Democratic Party (DP). He is seen as a conservative inside the party. Early life A Hakka, Lee was elected vice-chairman of the Hong Kong University Students' Union in 1979. He graduated from the Faculty of Science of the University of Hong Kong with a pass. He first participated in politics in the 1980s and was the vice-chairman of the Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL). He was elected to the District Council and the Regional Council in 1985 and 1986 respectively. He was a founding member of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China. In 1989, during the visit of Geoffrey Howe to Hong Kong, Lee protested at the conference and called Howe's speech "bullshit". Lee left the ADPL and formed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sin Chung-kai
Sin Chung-kai (; born 15 June 1960) is a former member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council. He was the chairman and a member of Kwai Tsing District Council for the Wah Lai constituency. He was one of the two vice-chairmen of the Democratic Party until December 2012, and now serves as a member of the Executive Committee. Early career In 1982, Sin obtained his bachelor's degree at the University of Hong Kong, where he served as the Current Affairs Secretary of the Student Union. In 1997, he obtained a Master in Business Administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Sin was formerly employed as an Information Technology manager at HSBC, resigning in 2011 to focus on his political career. Political career District Council Sin's political career began in 1985 when he was first elected to the Kwai Tsing District Board. He was re-elected in subsequent elections, remaining in this role until 2003. Between the years 1994–1999, Sin served as the chairperson of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 In Hong Kong
Events in the year 2004 in Hong Kong. Incumbents * Chief Executive: Tung Chee-hwa Events April * 2 April – Playhouse Disney (Hong Kong TV channel) is launched. August * 13 to 29 August – Hong Kong at the 2004 Summer Olympics September * 12 September - 2004 Hong Kong legislative election * 17 to 28 September - Hong Kong at the 2004 Summer Paralympics October * October - MC Jin, American son of Hong Kong immigrants, a rapper, songwriter, actor and comedian, releases his debut album, ''The Rest Is History''. December * 21 December - Ma On Shan rail line is opened. Full date unknown * Kelly Chen, Hong Kong female celebrity is awarded "The Outstanding Young Persons of the World" by the Junior Chamber International. Deaths May * 1 May - Wong Ker-lee, 93, Fujianese Hong Kong businessman and politician. (b. 1910) June * 11 June - Joyce Symons, 85, Hong Kong educator. (b. 1918) July * 16 July - John Park, 80, Hong Kong sailor (b. 1924) November * 24 November - James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Party Leadership Elections In Hong Kong
Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. It may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and nonviolent, or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but also often carries a negative connotation.. The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or limitedly, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it. A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other political subjects, making laws, and exercising internal and external force, including war ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Ho
Albert Ho Chun-yan (; born 1 December 1951) is a solicitor and politician in Hong Kong. He is the former chairman (2014–2019) and vice-chair (2019–2021) of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, and former chairman of the Democratic Party from 2006 to 2012. He is a solicitor and a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong for District Council (Second) constituency. Early life and education Ho was born in what was then British Hong Kong on 1 December 1951 in a big family with six children. His father worked in a shipping company by day and as a translator by night, along with two other jobs that he had. Ho got his Bachelor of Laws with honors in the University of Hong Kong in 1974, and obtained a Postgraduate Certificate in Laws in 1975. He attended lectures given by Hsu Kwan-san, a Chinese historian who later became a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, whom Ho cited as influence for his political beliefs and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yam Kai-bong
Yam Kai-bong (; born 20 May 1978) is a Hong Kong politician. He is the former member of the Tai Po District Council for Yee Fu and the convenor of the Neo Democrats. Biography He was graduated from the City University of Hong Kong before he ran in the 1999 District Council election in Tai Yuen in as the youngest candidate in the election for the Democratic Party, where he lost to veteran Cheng Chun-ping. He went to study broad at the University of Hull in Social Policy. In the 2003 District Council election, he ran again in Yee Fu and won a seat in the Tai Po District Council. He was re-elected in 2007, 2011 and 2015. He ran in the 2008 Legislative Council election in New Territories East on Andrew Cheng's ticket in which Cheng successfully retook his seat. He was considered as the reformist faction in the Democratic Party. In the 2008 party leadership election, Yam ran for the central committee with other reformist faction headed by Andrew Cheng who challenged the vice-c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Fan Kwok-wai
Gary Fan Kwok-wai (; born 30 October 1966) is a Hong Kong politician. He was the member of Legislative Council from 2012 to 2016 and from 2018 to 2019 after winning the 2018 by-election for New Territories East. He is also a former member of the Sai Kung District Council for Wan Hang. Former leader of the reformist faction in the Democratic Party, he led the reformists splitting from the party to form the Neo Democrats over the controversial 2010 constitutional reform proposal, taking a moderate localist stance. After the disqualification of Ventus Lau, a 2018 by-election candidate, was ruled unlawful by the Court of Final Appeal, the by-election was seen as invalid and Fan was unseated in December 2019 as a result. Party politics Of Huiyang Hakka ancestry, Gary Fan is a graduate of San Francisco State University. Fan joined the Democratic Party after returning to Hong Kong. Fan was a leading member of the Democratic Party, including being a member of the standing com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fung Wai-kwong
Andrew Fung Wai-kwong (, born 27 June 1961) is the current information coordinator for the Office of the Chief Executive of Hong Kong. Biography Fung was born on 27 June 1961. He was educated at the University of Hong Kong and was president of the Hong Kong University Students' Union in 1984 and president of the Hong Kong Federation of Students in 1985. He was a member of the pro-democracy political group Meeting Point and treasurer of the group until it was merged into the Democratic Party where he was elected the founding treasurer of the party and had been on the party's Executive Committee. He is also on the Hong Kong Basic Law Consultative Committee, and was formerly a member of the Central Policy Unit and Urban Renewal Authority. Fung was first elected in South Horizons West constituency to the Southern District Council in the 2007 District Council election. He was re-elected in 2011 District Council election. Once a member of the pro-democratic Democratic Party, he qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wong Sing-chi
Nelson Wong Sing-chi (born 11 October 1957) is a Hong Kong politician and social worker. He had been member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong between 2000–04 and 2008–12. He was the founding member of the Democratic Party before he was expelled in 2015 for his support in the government's constitutional reform proposals. He was also briefly a founding member of the Third Side, a centrist political party. He is also former member of the North District Council and Regional Council. Background Wong was born in Hong Kong in 1957. He obtained his Bachelor of Social Work from Hong Kong Polytechnic University and was a social worker before joining Hong Kong politics. He was the member of the Meeting Point a liberal party and was first elected to the North District Board in Choi Yuen with party mate Tik Chi-yuen. He became the founding member of the Democratic Party when the Meeting Point was merged with the United Democrats of Hong Kong. He lost his seat in North Distric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tik Chi-yuen
Tik Chi-yuen () is a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council and of North District Council. He is a registered social worker and chairman of the small centrist Third Side party, which he co-founded in 2015, after quitting the Democratic Party, of which he was also a co-founder. Background He was the chairman of the Committee on Home-School Co-operation, member of the Commission on Strategic Development, Council for Sustainable Development and the Commission on Poverty. In 2008, Tik took part in the social welfare functional constituency election in the 2008 Hong Kong legislative election. But he was defeated by Cheung Kwok Che, the president of the Hong Kong Social Workers General Union. On 9 September 2015, he quit the Democratic Party after he supported the constitutional reform package which the party opposed and denounced by some party members. He then founded and is now the chairman of Third Side, a centrist party in Hong Kong. In 2021, he won a seat in 2021 Hon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Ng Wing-fai
Stanley Ng Wing-fai (; born 1961) is a Hong Kong based smart city expert, a licensed town planner and politician. He is Election Committee Member of Hong Kong (2006 to 2022) and Executive Committee member of the Democratic Party. Education and business career Born in 1961 in Hong Kong, Ng studied at the Pui Ching Middle School, and received a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1983 and a master's degree in Urban Planning from the University of Hong Kong in 1991. He became a licensed Town Planner both in China, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. He is the founder and CEO of "MapAsia" and "MapKing", and running MapKing International, an international smart city technology and mapping firm in Asia. He is also the Publisher of the World and China Press Limited. and also Founding President of Asia Pacific Connected Vehicles Industry Association. Political career He first ran for office in the Yau Tsim Mong District Board in the 1994 Distr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheung Yin-tung
Cheung Yin-tung (; born 1 May 1964) is a Hong Kong politician. He is the former secretary and treasurer of the Democratic Party and former member of the Yuen Long District Council. Biography He was a New Territories indigenous resident born in Yuen Long in 1964. He participated in student activism when he was younger and was chairman of the 32nd standing committee of the Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS) and led protests in support of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 in Beijing. After he graduated, he became a teacher. He was invited by Meeting Point and United Democrats of Hong Kong legislator Ng Ming-yum to join the United Democrats, which later transformed into the Democratic Party. He was elected to the Yuen Long District Board in 1991 but was defeated by conservative Leung Che-cheung in Yiu Yau with a large margin in the 1994 re-election. He participated in the 1995 Regional Council election, running against Leung Che-cheung again but lost to Leung in a mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
