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Secretary For Transport And Housing
The Secretary for Transport and Logistics () in Hong Kong is responsible for transport and logistics related issues. The position was created in 2022 to replace the previous position of Secretary for the Transport and Housing. The position of Secretary for Transport can be traced back to 1981. List of office holders Political party: Secretaries for Transport, 1981–1997 Secretaries for Transport, 1997–2002 ; Transport affairs were handled by Secretary for Environment, Transport and Works between 2002 and 2007. Secretaries for Transport and Housing, 2007–2022 Secretaries for Transport and Logistics, 2022–present References External linksOrganisation chart of Hong Kong Government {{Transport and Housing Bureau (Hong Kong) Transport Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on ...
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Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a List of cities in China, city and Special administrative regions of China, special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta in South China. With 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a territory, Hong Kong is one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated places in the world. Hong Kong is also a major global financial centre and one of the Global city, most developed cities in the world. Hong Kong was established as a British Hong Kong, colony of the British Empire after the Qing dynasty, Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island from Bao'an County, Xin'an County at the end of the First Opium War in 1841 then again in 1842.. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtaine ...
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Ian Francis Cluny Macpherson
Ian or Iain is a name of Scottish Gaelic origin, derived from the Hebrew given name (Yohanan, ') and corresponding to the English name John. The spelling Ian is an Anglicization of the Scottish Gaelic forename ''Iain''. It is a popular name in Scotland, where it originated, as well as other English-speaking countries. The name has fallen out of the top 100 male baby names in the United Kingdom, having peaked in popularity as one of the top 10 names throughout the 1960s. In 1900, Ian was the 180th most popular male baby name in England and Wales. , the name has been in the top 100 in the United States every year since 1982, peaking at 65 in 2003. Other Gaelic forms of "John" include "Seonaidh" ("Johnny" from Lowland Scots), "Seon" (from English), "Seathan", and "Seán" and "Eoin" (from Irish). Its Welsh counterpart is Ioan, its Cornish equivalent is Yowan and Breton equivalent is Yann. Notable people named Ian As a first name (alphabetical by family name) *Ian Agol (born 19 ...
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Donald Tsang
Sir Donald Tsang Yam-kuen (; born 7 October 1944) is a former Hong Kong civil servant who served as the second Chief Executive of Hong Kong from 2005 to 2012. Tsang joined the colonial civil service as an Executive Officer in 1967, occupying various positions in local administration, finance and trade before he was appointed Financial Secretary of Hong Kong in 1995, becoming the first ethnic Chinese to hold the position under British administration. He continued to serve in the Hong Kong SAR government after 1997 and gained his reputation internationally for his intervention in Hong Kong's stock market in defending the Hong Kong dollar's peg to the US dollar during the 1997 financial crisis. Tsang became the Chief Secretary for Administration in 2001 and ran for the Chief Executive in 2005 after incumbent Tung Chee-hwa resigned. He served the remaining term of Tung and was re-elected in 2007. He served a full five-year term until he stepped down in 2012. In his seven y ...
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Eva Cheng
Eva Cheng, GBS (; born 31 May 1960, Hong Kong) was the Secretary for Transport and Housing and the chairman of the Hong Kong Housing AuthorityHousing Authority Member: The Honourable Eva CHENG, GBS, JP (Chairman)(Secretary for Transport and Housing)"
''Hong Kong Housing Authority'' in the . She joined as a civil servant in the Administrative Service in 1983. Cheng has served in various bureaux and
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Secretary For Environment, Transport And Works
The Secretary for Environment and Ecology () of the Hong Kong Government is responsible for environment protection policy in Hong Kong. The position was created most recently in 2007 as the Secretary for the Environment to replace portions of the previous portfolio of Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works. On 1 July 2022, the position renamed with the absorption of the food and environmental hygiene portfolio from the Secretary for Food and Health. The position was renamed various times to include different portfolios, including Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works (), who heads the Environment, Transport and Works Bureau of the Hong Kong Government, responsible for public works projects, transport related issues and environmental protection. List of office holders Political party: Secretaries for the Environment, 1973–1981 Secretaries for Lands and Works, 1981–1989 Secretaries for Planning, Environment and Lands, 1989–1997 Secretaries fo ...
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Nicholas Ng
Nicholas Ng Wing-fui, GBS, CBE, JP (; born 20 November 1946) is a former Hong Kong government official and former chairman of the Public Service Commission. Biography Ng graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 1970 with a Bachelor of Social Science (BSocSc) and joined the Hong Kong government in June 1970. He served briefly as an Assignment Officer and then as an Executive Officer II before transferring to the Administrative Service in August 1971. He was Deputy Secretary for the Civil Service from November 1985 to February 1987, Deputy Secretary for Trade and Industry from February to July 1987, Deputy Director of the Information Services Department from July 1987 to March 1989, Secretary-General of the Standing Commission on Civil Service Salaries and Conditions of Service from May 1989 to May 1991 and Director of Administration from June 1991 to January 1994. He rose to be Director of Bureau in January 1994 when he was appointed Secretary for Constitutional Affairs, whi ...
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First Term Of Tung Chee-hwa As Chief Executive Of Hong Kong
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Tung Chee-hwa
Tung Chee-hwa (; born 7 July 1937) is a Hong Kong businessman and politician who served as the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong between 1997 and 2005, upon the transfer of sovereignty on 1 July. He is currently a vice-chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). Born as the eldest son of Chinese shipping magnate Tung Chao Yung, who founded Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL), Tung took over the family business after his father's death in 1981. Four years later, OOCL teetered on the edge of bankruptcy, and the business was saved by the People's Republic of China government through Henry Fok in 1986. He was appointed an unofficial member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong by the last British Governor Chris Patten in 1992 and was tipped as Beijing's favourite as the first Chief Executive of the Hong Kong SAR. In 1996, he was elected the Chief Executive by a 400-member Selection Committee. His government was embroiled with a series of c ...
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Gordon Siu
Gordon Siu Kwing-chue, CBE, GBS, JP (; born 29 November 1945) is a former Hong Kong civil servant. From 1993 to 2001, he was secretary for economic services, secretary for transport, head of the Central Policy Unit and secretary for planning, environment and lands. Early life Siu was born in 1945 and was educated at Birmingham University. Career He joined the civil service as an administrative officer in 1966. He held various positions in the Hong Kong government, including the deputy secretary for the Civil Service from 1981 to 1985, secretary general of the Office of Members of the Executive and Legislative Councils from 1985 to 1988 and postmaster general from 1988 to 1992. In 1993, he was appointed secretary for economic services. During his service, he was responsible for promoting the construction of Chek Lap Kok Airport as the director of New Airport Projects Co-ordination Office, the construction plan of which became an issue of the Sino-British dispute on the eve of ...
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Haider Barma
Haider Hatim Tyebjee Barma GBS, ISO, JP (born 1944) served as Hong Kong's Secretary for Transport from 1993 until 1996. He was born as a third generation Hong Konger, educated in British Hong Kong, and is of Indian ancestry. He speaks Cantonese at a fluent level. He had Hong Kong nationality and as of 1996 never acquired any other. Agence France-Presse (AFP) stated he had the nationality of Pakistan. He received a BA with honours from the University of Hong Kong, a CBA from the London School of Economics, and an M. Phil from the University of Oxford. Career He started as an executive officer in the Hong Kong Civil Service in March 1966. In August that year his rank increased to administrative officer. He was appointed Deputy Secretary for the Civil Service in 1968. In 1988 he became the Director of Regional Services, and in 1991 he became Director of Urban Services. He took his transport secretary post in 1993, replacing Yeung Kai-yin. This made him the person in the Hong Kong c ...
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Yeung Kai-yin
Yeung Kai-yin, GBS, CBE, JP(; 6 January 1941 - 8 February 2007) is a Chinese civil servant and businessman in Hong Kong. Career In 1962, Yeung joined the Hong Kong Government as an Administrative Officer. In 1989, Yeung became the Secretary for Education and Manpower, until 1991. Yeung was also the Secretary for Transport. In 1991, Yeung became the Secretary for the Treasury in Hong Kong. In 1993, at age 52, Yeung resigned as Secretary for the Treasury in Hong Kong. In 1993, Yeung became an executive director of Sino Land, a major property developer of Hong Kong and a subsidiary of Tsim Sha Tsui Properties. In 1996, Yeung served as chairman and chief executive of Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation (KCRC). During his tenure, the KCRC constructed the West Rail line that links northwestern New Territories (Tuen Mun, Tin Shui Wai and Yuen Long) with Kowloon. Yeung's appointment of fellow retired civil servants in KCRC and conciliatory attitude to the government drew public cr ...
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Chris Patten
Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, (; born 12 May 1944) is a British politician who was the 28th and last Governor of Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997 and Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1992. He was made a life peer in 2005 and has been Chancellor of the University of Oxford since 2003. Raised in west London, Patten studied history at Balliol College, Oxford. Shortly after graduating in 1965, he began working for the Conservative Party. Patten was elected Member of Parliament for Bath in 1979. He was appointed Secretary of State for the Environment by Margaret Thatcher in 1989 as part of her third ministry, becoming responsible for implementation of the unpopular poll tax. On John Major's succession as Prime Minister in 1990, Patten became Chairman of the Conservative Party and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. As party chairman, he successfully orchestrated a surprise Conservative electoral victory in 1992, but lost his own seat. Pat ...
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