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Regional Council (constituency)
The Regional Council was an electoral college created in 1986 and became one of the functional constituencies between 1991 and 2000 for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, until the Urban Council and the Regional Council themselves were abolished in 1999 and the constituencies replaced by District Council and Catering Catering is the business of providing food service at a remote site or a site such as a hotel, hospital, pub, aircraft, cruise ship, park, festival, filming location or film studio. History of catering The earliest account of major services be ... in the 2000 LegCo election. The constituency was composed of members of the Regional Council. Legislative Council members Election results 1990s 1980s References {{Hong Kong Legislative Council constituencies 1998–2000 Regional Council of Hong Kong Constituencies of Hong Kong Constituencies of Hong Kong Legislative Council 1986 establishments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Functional Constituency (Hong Kong)
In the political systems of Hong Kong, a functional constituency is a professional or special interest group involved in the electoral process. Eligible voters in a functional constituency may include natural persons as well as other designated legal entities such as organisations and corporations. (See: legal personality) History The concept of functional constituencies (FC) in Hong Kong was first developed in the release of "Green Paper: A Pattern of District Administration in Hong Kong" on 18 July 1984 when indirect elections were introduced to the Legislative Council for the first time. The paper suggested that the Legislative Council create 24 seats with 12 seats from different professional interest groups. The 11 original functional constituencies created in 1985 were: * First Commercial ( HKGCC) * Second Commercial ( CGCC) * First Industrial ( FHKI) * Second Industrial ( CMAHK) * Financial ( HKAB) * Labour (2 seats) * Social Services ( HKCSS) * Medical ( HKMA) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Democratic Federation Of Hong Kong
The Liberal Democratic Federation of Hong Kong (, abbreviated 自民聯; LDF) was a pro-Beijing pro-business and conservative political party in Hong Kong. It was established in 1990, and was composed of mainly conservative businessmen and professionals. It contested in the District Board elections, Urban and Regional Council elections and the first Legislative Council election in 1991 against the liberal United Democrats of Hong Kong (UDHK). It was merged into the Hong Kong Progressive Alliance in 1997. Chaired by Hu Fa-kuang and vice-chaired by Maria Tam and Philip Kwok, the leading figures included Tso Wung-wai, Howard Young, and Daniel Heung. History The party was established by a group of conservative businesspeople and professionals in the Hong Kong Basic Law Consultative Committee (BLCC), Hong Kong Basic Law Drafting Committee (BLDC), which was often called the "Group of 89", and appointed members in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo) who worried about welfar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choy Kan-pui
Choy Kan-pui, BBS, JP (born 1929) is a former Hong Kong legislator and Sha Tin villager. He ran in the 1982 Hong Kong district boards election representing the Tin Sum village in Sha Tin where he rooted and continued his office until 2003. He was also the chairman of the Sha Tin District Council. He was a member of the Hong Kong Affairs Society, a pro-democratic political group in the 1980s, later turned into the first major pro-democratic party United Democrats of Hong Kong (UDHK). Choy was the founding member of the UDHK but soon later he and Lau Kong-wah quit the party and form a local community organisation Civil Force. He was elected as member of the Legislative Council in Election Committee in the 1995 Legislative Council election in which the electorates were composed of district councillors. He later joined the pro-Beijing pro-business Hong Kong Progressive Alliance (HKPA) and reelected to the Provisional Legislative Council in 1996. In the 2000 Legislative Council elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Lam Wai-keung
Daniel Lam Wai-keung () SBS, JP is the former Chairman of the Hong Kong Regional Council (se as well as a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. He is currently vice-chairman of the Heung Yee Kuk, an organisation representing indigenous inhabitants of the New Territories of Hong Kong, and was formerly chairman of Islands District The Islands District is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong. It is part of the New Territories. It had a population of 170,900 in 2018. Hong Kong consists of a peninsula and 263 islands. The Islands District consists of some twenty large an ... Council. References External linksHeung Yee Kuk {{DEFAULTSORT:Lam, Daniel 1949 births District councillors of Islands District Members of the Regional Council of Hong Kong Heung Yee Kuk Hong Kong businesspeople Indigenous inhabitants of the New Territories in Hong Kong Living people HK LegCo Members 1988–1991 HK LegCo Members 2004–2008 Members of the Sel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert Leung Kam-ho
Glibert Leung Kam-ho (born 23 July 1953, Macau) was a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (1991–93) for the Regional Council constituency, Regional Council of Hong Kong and Sai Kung District Board The Sai Kung District Council () is the district council for the Sai Kung District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 such councils. The Sai Kung District Council currently consists of 31 members, of which the district is divided into 29 constituenc .... He was found guilty in 1993 for trying to bribe two regional councillors to vote for him in the 1991 Legislative Council election and removed from the seat. He was subsequently jailed for three years. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Leung, Gilbert 1953 births Living people Members of the Regional Council of Hong Kong District councillors of Sai Kung District Hong Kong criminals Alumni of the Chinese University of Hong Kong HK LegCo Members 1991–1995 Hong Kong politicians convicted of crimes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lau Kong-wah
Lau or LAU may refer to: People * Lau (surname) * Liu (劉/刘), a common Chinese family name transliterated Lau in Cantonese and Hokkien * Lau clan, one of the Saraswat Brahmin clans of Punjab * LAU (musician): Laura Fares Places * Lebanese American University, an America university in Lebanon * Lau, Estonia, a village in Estonia * Lau, Gotland, a locality on Gotland, Sweden * Lau, Nigeria, a local government area * Lau (crater), a crater on Mars * Lau Islands, Fiji * Lau Province, Fiji * Laurel station (Mississippi), a passenger railway station in Laurel, United States * LAU, IATA code for Manda Airport, a public airport on Manda Island, Kenya Languages * Lau language of Nigeria * Lauan language, also called Lau, spoken in Fiji, ISO 639-3: llx * Lau language (Malaita), spoken in the Solomon Islands, ISO 639-3: llu Other uses * Lau Chan, fictional character in video game ''Virtua Fighter Series'' * Lau (band), a British folk music group * Lambda Alpha Upsilon, a Greek let ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Tso Shiu-wai
Alfred Tso Shiu-wai (born 11 October 1951, in Hong Kong) was a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (1993–95) replacing the Gilbert Leung for the Regional Council. He was the elected member of the Tuen Mun District Board from 1982 to 1994. He was also elected to the Heung Yee Kuk in 1983. He was elected to the Regional Council of Hong Kong in 1991 and replaced the unseated Regional Council representative Gilbert Leung due to corruption allegations to the Legislative Council after winning in a by-election. He partnered Daniel Lam to contest the New Territories West in the 1998 Hong Kong legislative election but failed to go back to the LegCo. He was also a member of the pro-Beijing Liberal Democratic Federation of Hong Kong The Liberal Democratic Federation of Hong Kong (, abbreviated 自民聯; LDF) was a pro-Beijing pro-business and conservative political party in Hong Kong. It was established in 1990, and was composed of mainly conservative businessmen and pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Chiang
Ann Chiang Lai-wan, SBS, JP, ( was born on 16 May 1955) is the chair of C&L Holdings and a former pro-Beijing member of Hong Kong Legislative Council. She is the second daughter of Chiang Chen who was a Hong Kong entrepreneur. Background Chiang was a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from 1993 to 2013. In 2000, Chiang joined Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) and was appointed the vice-chairman of the organisation in 2007. In 1981, she received a Bachelor of Arts from Concordia University. Since 2005, she has served as non-executive director in Elec & Eltek International Holdings and chairman of C&L Holdings. Chiang was formerly a member of the Council of the City University of Hong Kong. In 2012, Chiang was elected Member of Legislative Council (Representative for Kowloon West) and retained her seat in 2016. Controversies Though the Cantonese language is predominant in Hong Kong, Chiang took her 2016 oath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong Progressive Alliance
The Hong Kong Progressive Alliance (HKPA) was a Pro-Beijing camp, pro-Beijing, pro-business political party in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. It was established in 1994 and was merged into the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB) in 2005. The DAB then renamed as the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong. Stances The party was composed of mainly businessmen and professionals. The party was considered a pro-business conservative and pro-Beijing one. It assured another voting block in support of Beijing's interest. The basic platform of the party was to defend "One country-two systems" and the Hong Kong Basic Law, Basic Law, the mini-constitution of Hong Kong. It advocated handling political and social issues in a moderate, pragmatic and harmonious manner, and the 'progressive' development of democracy, emphasising 'stability, prosperity and progress'. Party members maintained close rela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tang Siu-tong
Tang Siu-tong, SBS, JP (born 26 September 1942 in Hong Kong), was a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong from 1992 to 2004. Member of the Legislative Council He is also a registered in , Hong Kong.鄧兆棠醫生 DR. TANG SIU TONG - 元朗診所 - 香港醫生目錄 Hong Kong Health Center Early life ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 Hong Kong Legislative Election
The 1998 Hong Kong Legislative Council election was held on 24 May 1998 for members of the 1st Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo) since the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) in 1997. Replacing the Provisional Legislative Council (PLC) strictly controlled by the Beijing government and boycotted by the pro-democracy camp, the elections returned 20 members from directly elected geographical constituencies, 10 seats from the Election Committee constituency and 30 members from functional constituencies, of which 10 were uncontested. Taking the advantage of the proportional representation system installed by Beijing, the pro-Beijing party, the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB), the weaker side compared to the more developed pro-democratic party, the Democratic Party recorded a clearer increase in the number of seats in the election. The Democratic Party returned to the Legislative Council as the largest party with 13 sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provisional Legislative Council
The Provisional Legislative Council (PLC) was the interim legislature of Hong Kong that operated from 1997 to 1998. The legislature was founded in Guangzhou and sat in Shenzhen from 1996 (with offices in Hong Kong) until the handover in 1997 and moved to Hong Kong to serve as the temporary replacement of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. It was established by the Preparatory Committee for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region by resolution at its Second Plenary Session on 24 March 1996. The 60 members of the PLC were elected on 21 December 1996 by the 400-member Selection Committee for the First Government of the HKSAR, which also elected the first Chief Executive. The official start date for this council was on 25 January 1997. History 1992 electoral reforms When the Hong Kong Basic Law was promulgated on 4 April 1990, the National People's Congress (NPC) issued a decision on the same day on the formation of the first government and legislature of the Hong Kong Spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
