Steven Ho Chun-yin,
BBS
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Ammunition
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Computing and gaming
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(; born 30 November 1979), is a member of the
Legislative Council of Hong Kong
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. He represents the
functional constituency
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* Functional constituency (Hong Kong)
* Functional cons ...
for
Agriculture and Fisheries. He belongs to the
party.
Background
Ho graduated from
University of Birmingham
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in Communication and Computer System Engineering. He became a member of the
Election Committee
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for
Agriculture and Fisheries constituency. Ho was elected in the
Legislative Council of Hong Kong
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as the successor for
Wong Yung-kan in
2012 legislative election and retained the seat in the
2016 election.
In February 2021, Ho attacked
RTHK
Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) is the public broadcasting service in Hong Kong. GOW, the predecessor to RTHK, was established in 1928 as the first broadcasting service in Hong Kong. As a government department under the Commerce and Econo ...
, and accused it of spreading "fake news" and slandering the police.
In March 2021, after learning that the
Huanggang Port
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would cost Hong Kong only HK$1,000 a year, with the rest of the costs handled by Shenzhen, Ho said that Hong Kong should pay more and that "We should pay what we should be paying, instead of just taking advantage of them."
On 30 June 2022, Ho was pictured along with
CCP general secretary Xi Jinping
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and other government officials.
His
COVID-19
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test from that day was negative, but was classified as uncertain on his 1 July 2022 test, and positive on his test on 2 July 2022.
References
1979 births
Living people
Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong politicians
HK LegCo Members 2012–2016
HK LegCo Members 2016–2021
HK LegCo Members 2022–2025
Alumni of the University of Birmingham
Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2012–2017
Recipients of the Bronze Bauhinia Star
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