Andrew Fung Wai-kwong (, born 27 June 1961) is the current information coordinator for the

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Biography

Fung was born on 27 June 1961. He was educated at the

University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong (HKU) (Chinese: 香港大學) is a public research university in Hong Kong. Founded in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, it is the oldest tertiary institution in Hong Kong. HKU was also the fi ...

and was president of the

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in 1984 and president of the

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in 1985. He was a member of the

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political group

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and treasurer of the group until it was merged into the

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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 The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Basic Law Consultative Committee (BLCC; 香港基本法諮詢委員會) was an official body established in 1985 to canvass views in Hong Kong on the drafts of the Hong Kong Basic Law. Background The f ...

, and was formerly a member of the

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and

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. Fung was first elected in South Horizons West constituency to the

Southern District Council Southern District Council is the district council for the Southern District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 such councils. The Southern District Council currently consists of 17 members, of which the district is divided into 17 constituencies, ...

in the 2007 District Council election. He was re-elected in 2011 District Council election. Once a member of the pro-democratic

, he quit the party in 2012 and he joined

Leung Chun-ying Leung Chun-ying (; born 12 August 1954), also known as CY Leung, is a Hong Kong politician and chartered surveyor, who has served as vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference since Mar ...

's government in 2013. In December 2013, he was appointed by

as the government's information coordinator under the

. Due to the tensions between the Democratic Party and Leung, when he applied for the undersecretary posts in June 2012, he was condemned as traitor and he subsequently quit the party. Fung, perhaps unwittingly, shared a photograph on Facebook of a bloodied policeman who had allegedly been the victim of protester violence overnight on 15 October during the

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. It turned out to have been a hoax by people who had taken a publicity shot from an upcoming drama series about zombie cops, but Fung's sharing of the image occurred the same day that television footage surfaced of a handcuffed protester, Ken Tsang, being violently assaulted by seven policemen made prime time news bulletins. Fung condemned the violence of pro-democracy protesters, and had hoped to gain sympathy for the police with his post, but instead resulted in being ridiculed.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fung, Andrew 1961 births Alumni of the University of Hong Kong Hong Kong pro-Beijing politicians Living people District councillors of Southern District Democratic Party (Hong Kong) politicians Meeting Point politicians Hong Kong civil servants Hong Kong Basic Law Consultative Committee members HKFS people