Stanley Ng Chau-pei (born February 1970) is a Hong Kong

pro-Beijing The pro-Beijing camp, pro-establishment camp, pro-government camp or pro-China camp refers to a political alignment in Hong Kong which generally supports the policies of the Beijing central government and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) t ...

politician and trade unionist and the incumbent President and former Chairman of the

Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions The Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (HKFTU) is a pro-Beijing labour and political group established in 1948 in Hong Kong. It is the oldest and largest labour group in Hong Kong with over 420,000 members in 253 affiliates and associated ...

(HKFTU), the largest trade union in Hong Kong, and also a Hong Kong deputy to the

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. He is also as a member of the Legislative Council, representing the Hong Kong Island East constituency.

Biography

He was born in February 1970 with his family root in

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. He is a member of the Hong Kong Clerical and Professional Employees General Union and its President. Through the General Union he has become the core member of the

(FTU) after he joined in 1997 and became the Chairman of the HKFTU. He is also a Hong Kong deputy to the

and member of the Standing Committee of the

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Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. In the 2006 Hong Kong Election Committee Subsector elections, he was elected through the Labour Subsector as the member of the HKFTU. The 800-member election committee was responsible for the 2007 Hong Kong Chief Executive election in which Beijing's favourite

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won against

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from the

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. He was appointed by the Hong Kong government to many public positions such as the Employee's Compensation Insurances Levies Management Board from 2013, the Labour Advisory Board from 2011, the

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Schemes Appeal Board from 2012 to 2014, the Standard Working Hours Committee since 2013. He had also been a part-time member of the government's

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. Ng was also one of initiators of the Alliance for Peace and Democracy, a counter political alliance orchestrated by Beijing against the

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launched by the pan-democrats to pressure Beijing to implement genuine democracy. He organised the anti-"Occupy" rally on 17 August 2014. In April 2018, he succeeded

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to be the President of the FTU with Vice President Wong Kwok replaced him as the Chairman. Ng criticised the decision of Court of Final Appeal in September 2018 to free the group of 13 activists, who had each received jail sentences of up to 13 months from a lower court for unlawful assembly outside the

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on 13 June 2014. "How could this be an act of loving and protecting young people?

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are killing them!" Ng said as he accused the judges "sinners of society". Ng's remarks drew criticism from the pro-democrats, as well as

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which said his comments as "unacceptable". During the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, Ng slammed

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with coarse Cantonese slang, depicted Li "cockroach" king in a post on social media. "Cockroach" is frequently being used by the

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as a slur for protestors. In March 2021, ''Apple Daily'' reported that Ng had criticized ''

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'', stating that it was skewed and unprofessional. In February 2022, after the

Witman Hung birthday party controversy Witman Hung partygate refers to a political scandal in Hong Kong that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong, COVID-19 pandemic. A banquet was held at a tapas bar in Wan Chai on 3 January 2022, during the fifth wave of COVID-19 pand ...

, Ng defended Hung and said that "His awareness about the epidemic situation was not strong enough, but he has faced public criticisms over it, and I do not see why he should step down from the NPC".

References

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