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Dame Rosanna Wong Yick-ming (, born 15 August 1952) also known by her
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, Rosanna Tam Wong Yick-ming, in her former marriage from 1979 lasting until 1992, and primarily known as Dr Rosanna Wong in public occasions after 1997, is a Hong Kong social work administrator and politician who has served as the Executive Director of the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups since 1980. Before the
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, she was appointed as unofficial member of the Legislative Council from 1985 to 1991 and of the Executive Council from 1988 to 1991. She briefly retired from politics in 1991 but was successful to return as unofficial Executive Councillor for a second time in 1992, and was also appointed chairperson of the
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in the following year. Wong was trusted by the last British colonial
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,
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(later Lord), who chose her to replace Baroness Dunn as the Convenor of the Executive Council (equivalent to the Senior Unofficial Member of the Executive Council) in 1995, thus rising as an influential figure in the final years of the colonial government. In 1997, she was made
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and became the second
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woman, after Baroness Dunn, to be made a
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in history. After the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong in 1997, Wong was one of the two colonial unofficial members who remained in the new Executive Council under the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Nevertheless, when the Housing Authority Short-piling Scandal broke out in 1999, Wong, as the chairperson of the Housing Authority, was heavily blamed by the general public of not taking any responsibility. Under public pressure, she subsequently decided to resign from the Housing Authority four days before the Legislative Council passing the
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on her and the Director of Housing, Tony Miller in June 2000. However, her resignation did not prevent her and some other government officials from receiving censure in the short-piling scandal investigation report released by the Legislative Council later in January 2003. Following the scandal, Wong ceased to be an unofficial member of the Executive Council in 2002 but was appointed chairperson of the
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from 2001 to 2007. Since 2003, she has also been a Hong Kong member of the
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National Committee of the People's Republic of China. Besides, Wong plays a role in the business sector in Hong Kong. She has been a non-executive director of the
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since 1996 and has also been an independent non-executive director of Sir Ka-shing Li's
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since 2001.


Biography


Early years

Wong was born on 15 August 1952 in Hong Kong to a family descended from
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of
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in China. Her father Wong Chun Chung was an
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from Singapore. Her mother Poon Chor Ying had been a journalist in
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and in Hong Kong was a teacher at St. Stephen's Girls' College. Both had graduated from mainland China universities and were considered well-educated. Wong is the fourth child in the family. She has three elder sisters and two younger sister and brother. She spent her early years with her family in
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and later moved to
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. After entering secondary school, Wong's family resided on Lyttelton Road in
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on
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.何良懋. 《香港的童年》. 香港:新雅文化事業有限公司. 1997.Edited by Kevin Sinclair, ''Who's who in Hong Kong'', Hong Kong: Who's Who in Hong Kong Ltd.: Asianet Information Services Ltd., 1988. Wong entered St. Stephen's Girls' Primary School in 1962 and followed her sisters to enter St. Stephen's Girls' College, where their mother taught, in 1965. Wong had some classes with her mother, who also taught
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and
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, later
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of the Hong Kong government and the President of the Legislative Council respectively. Wong once recalled that her mother's knowledge and attitude to life had deeply inspired her thinking that since secondary three, she had become a volunteer and once joined a gospel rehabilitation group for drug addicts to pay visit to the
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. In 1972, Wong graduated from the school and was soon successfully enrolled at the
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studying
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. At first, she was not given a room in any of the residential colleges because she lived too near to the campus. Only when she became a social secretary of St John's College Students' Association in year three of study, she had the chance to move into St John's College. In the university, Wong was something of a
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and in 1973 joined a university visit the
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. All these experiences influenced her deeply and she decided to commit herself to the field of social work upon graduation.


Social work career

Wong received her degree of social work from the University of Hong Kong in 1975 and was immediately employed by the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups as a
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. She was sent to Kowloon West at first and became a supervisor responsible for affairs of teenagers and counselling services in districts including
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,
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and
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. Wong later received
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scholarship from 1974 to 1975,
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Educational Award from 1977 to 1978 and PEO International Peace Scholarship from 1978 to 1979. These scholarships allowed her to further study in the
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in Canada from 1977 to 1979. After obtaining a master's degree of social work from
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, Wong returned to the Federation of Youth Group and was immediately promoted as Executive Secretary (Operations). Later in 1980, she was further promoted as general secretary (later renamed Executive Director) at the age of 28 and thus becoming the leader of the Federation. In this capacity, she has successfully expanded the Federation to be a major teenage service organisation in Hong Kong with a total number of 800 employees. Apart from the Federation, Wong had also involved deeply in a large number of social organisations including a number of local
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es. Since 1981, she had also been appointed as a member of the Executive Committee of the
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and stepped down in 2005 after more than twenty years of service. From 1984 to 1988, she was appointed to the Subventions and Lotteries Fund Advisory Committee as a member by the government as well. In 1982, she was awarded
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, studying
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and planning in the
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of the United Kingdom, and obtained her
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in science in 1983. Two years later she received a diploma of executive management in a course organised jointly by the
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and the Hong Kong Council of Social Service. In the same year, she was awarded Hong Kong's Ten Outstanding Young Persons' Award.《香港特區名人錄》. 香港:星島日報出版社. 2004.


Legislative and Executive Councillor

Wong's brilliance as a social administrator was soon noticed by Governor
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. In 1985, Sir Edward intended to reform the Legislative Council through appointing professionals from different career sectors to the Council. Under the recommendation of Legislative Councillor,
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, Wong was appointed as unofficial member of the Legislative Council at a relatively young age of 33 and thus entering politics. Other unofficial legislators newly appointed in that year included
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, physician Dr Henrietta Ip Man-Hing and so on.〈火鳳凰. 王䓪鳴〉. 《壹週刊》時事短打. 3 May 2001. Since joining the Legislative Council, she had hold a large number of public duties which included court member of the University of Hong Kong,
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(later Polytechnic University), Baptist College (later Baptist University) and City Polytechnic (later City University), member of the Hong Kong committee for
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, vice-patron of
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, member of the government's Standing Committee on Young Offenders and so on. Besides, from 1987 to 1988 she was appointed honorary advisor to the Social Welfare Department, member of government's
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and
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from 1987 to 1990, appointed chairwoman of the Social Welfare Advisory Committee from 1988 to 1991 and appointed the first chairwoman of the government's newly created Commission on Youth from 1990 to 1991.''Executive Councillors'', Hong Kong Government Website, 1998. Wong's work in the Legislative Council was deeply impressed by then Senior Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council
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(later Dame and Baroness) that under her promotion, she was further appointed as unofficial member of the government decision-making body, the Executive Council by Governor Sir David Wilson (later Lord) in 1988. On 16 January 1989 Wong was made an unofficial
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and later on the
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in 1990 she was made an
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for her contribution to the general public. However, in 1991 Wong suddenly retired from the two Councils and resigned all her public posts. She chose to further her study with her husband Dr Alfred Tam Yat-chung in the United States, trying to save their marriage from divorce. Yet their attempt was fail and they divorced eventually in 1992.〈刀槍不入. 王䓪鳴〉. 《壹週刊》時事. 4 October 2001. Although the divorce was a terrible blow to her, she was able to continue her study while took care of her two children alone. Finally in 1993, she obtained her master's degree of arts from the
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. A year before graduation, she was also awarded the prize of
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.


Returning to politics

In 1991, the Legislative Council introduced
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for the first time in the
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and the election resulted in the landslide victory of the many new-born local pro-democratic political parties. To balance the power in the Council, to show friendliness to the
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regime and to ensure that sovereignty of Hong Kong can be transferred smoothly and peacefully in 1997, many appointed or indirectly elected legislators, such as
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,
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and
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came together and formed a more conservative political group, the
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(later renamed Liberal Party) with the support of then Governor Sir David Wilson immediately after the election. Nevertheless, Sir David was soon forced to retire in 1992 and the
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policy towards China changed fundamentally. Sir David's successor,
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no longer continued his policy of gradual reform but endorsed democratic reform in full-swing. Patten believed the Co-operative Resources Centre would become a hindrance to his reform and therefore he refused to support the Centre as Sir David had done. Furthermore, he immediately reshuffled the pro-Sir David's Executive Council after becoming governor. Except the Senior Member Baroness Dunn, all other members served in Sir David's Executive Council were replaced. Under this background of wind of change, Wong was appointed back to the Executive Council as unofficial member by Patten in 1992, a year before graduating from the University of California. After returning to Hong Kong politics, she was deeply trusted by the Governor. In 1993, she was appointed chairperson of the
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, overseeing the policy on the construction of
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s. In the same year, she was also appointed chairwoman of the
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. In 1994, she became a member of the Court of the
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and was made a
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. On the contrary, Baroness Dunn, the Senior Member of the Executive Council, was distanced by Governor Patten because she once supported the founding of the Co-operative Resources Centre, and thus her importance in the government faded gradually. Eventually in 1995, Dunn retired from the Council and chose to migrate to England. Wong then was selected to replace Dunn as the last Convenor (equivalent to the post of the Senior Unofficial Member) of the colonial Executive Council by Governor Patten. As the Convenor of the Executive Council, Wong became an influential figure in the final years of the colonial government. Apart from being appointed non-executive director of the
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in November 1996, she was chosen as the chairwoman of the ICAC Complaints Committee in the transitional period between 1997 and 1998. In the
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, she caught up the last chance before the
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that she was made a
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and therefore became a Dame. Wong was the second
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woman, after Baroness Dunn, to be made a substantive Dame in history, and was the last person to receive a damehood in the colonial Hong Kong. She received the damehood from Governor Chris Patten in the
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on 19 April 1997.〈彭定康愛將回歸前封爵〉. 《太陽報》A01. 6 May 2001. In the same year, Wong also received her doctorate of sociology from the University of California, Davis. She personally chose to call herself Dr. Rosanna Wong rather than Dame Rosanna Wong after 1997 in public occasions.〈王䓪鳴博士〉. 《香港教育學院第十屆畢業典禮》. 19 November 2004. Since Wong had close and intimate ties with the colonial government, there had been rumours before the transfer of sovereignty that she would not be allowed to serve in the new
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's Executive Council, or even the Housing Authority. Yet, the fact was that Wong once served in the colonial Executive Council with the future
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,
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and Tung was impressed by her low-pitched image. Finally in 1997, although Tung chose veteran politician Sir Sze Yuen Chung as Convenor, Wong, along with Raymond Ch'ien Kuo Fung, was invited to stay as unofficial member in the new Executive Council. Wong continued to remain as chairperson of the Housing Authority as well. In the early years of the Special Administrative Region, Wong was again appointed to different public posts. She has been appointed president of the Hong Kong Schools Music and Speech Association since 1997, appointed president of the
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, Hong Kong from 1999 and has become a director of the board of the
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and the chairperson of the World Vision Hong Kong (香港宣明會) since 2000.


Short-piling scandal

Under the " 85,000 Housing Policy" suggested by Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa, the Housing Authority was demanded to build large-scale
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s and
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estates all over Hong Kong by the government in the early years after the transfer of sovereignty. At one time the Authority was even asked to build not less than 85,000 flats a year, so that more people could enjoy public housing. Nevertheless, because of lacking of efficient monitoring and poor planning, the policy soon became a leak for jerry-building, and a series of short-piling scandals were exposed.〈立會短樁報告. 暗批「八萬五」肇禍〉. 《香港經濟日報》A22. 21 January 2003. In September 1999, some blocks in
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, a Home Ownership Scheme estate built by the Housing Authority in
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, were discovered with serious and unusual settlement. Later in January 2000, a Home Ownership Scheme construction site in
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,
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was reported to have the same problem found in Tin Chung Court, and it became known that the
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of these affected blocks were much shorter than required. The short-piling scandals were followed by a series of discoveries of jerry-building. In March and May of the same year, constructions in the shopping centre of
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and in the site of Phase 3 of
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Area 30 were reported extensive non-compliance respectively. The general public was deeply shocked by the series of scandals and the Independent Commission Against Corruption soon carried out investigations into the housing scandals.〈公屋短樁醜聞經過〉. 《大公報》A07. 23 January 2003. Facing the housing scandals, as the chairperson of the Housing Authority, Wong vowed to grasp the opportunity to reform the bureaucratic and corrupted
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. However, she quickly became the target to be blamed by the public opinions. Many civil groups representing residents of the public housing estates reproached Wong for being incompetent to supervise the housing constructions and they demanded her and the Director of Housing, Tony Miller to step down. In June 2000,
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, Dominic S. W. Wong appointed Director of Intellectual Property, Stephen R. Selby as the chairman of the Investigation Panel on Staff Discipline in the Yuen Chau Kok and Tin Chung Court Incidents to see if anyone was derelict in the whole scandal. Apart from the pressure from the government, Democratic Party's legislator
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moved a
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on both Rosanna Wong and Tony Miller in the Legislative Council on 9 June. Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa later paid a special visit to the Legislative Council on 23 June and addressed to the Council Meeting. He hoped the legislators to vote against the motion of no confidence, claiming that if "both of them leave one after another, an administrative and legal vacuum would be created at the top level of the Government". She declared her resignation from the Housing Authority on 24 June 2000, and became the first government official to hold accountability and resign from the government of the Special Administrative Region before the introduction of
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. Four days later, the Legislative Council passed the motion of no confidence on her and Miller with a significant majority, however, Miller had never resigned. The post of chairperson of the Housing Authority was later filled by Dr Cheng Hon-kwan on 1 October. The scandal did not rest with the resignation of Wong. In February 2001, the Legislative Council set up a
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to enquire into the whole matter in-depth. On 8 May 2001, Wong was summoned to give evidences in front of the committee. In the enquiry, she admitted the risk of jerry-building had been underestimated. Yet, she claimed that the concept of "85,000 Housing Policy" which had already existed during the governorship of
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and the
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was merely ordered to carry out the long-term housing policy which was planned by the government, not the Authority. Besides, she provided a number of letters to Governor Patten written by her between 1994 and 1996 to the enquiry. One of them, dated December 1996, stated that the Housing Authority could build only 82,000 flats a year and could not fulfill the government's intention to build 106,000 flats. However, when Secretary for Housing, Dominic Wong gave evidences to the enquiry on 12 May, he rebutted what Wong had said. Dominic Wong explained that since 1988, it had been the Housing Authority who decided the target number of public housing flats to be built annually. The government itself had not been involved and therefore, figures forecasting the number of new public housing flats in each year's colonial ''
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'' had been provided by the Housing Authority instead. He further explained that the government had only started to make their own forecast since 1997, so it was not the case suggested by Rosanna Wong that the Housing Authority had to fulfill the target number of public housing flats demanded by the government. After two years of investigation, the Legislative Council's Select Committee released its report on the short-piling scandal in January 2003. Rosanna Wong, Dominic Wong and Tony Miller received differing degrees of censure in the report. However, the report did not recommend any punishment as it was up to the government to make the decision of whether to impose any punishment or not.


After-Housing Authority

After resigning from the Housing Authority, Wong started to fade out from Hong Kong politics and retired from the Executive Council in 2002. Besides, she succeeded
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as Chairperson of the
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from 2001 to 2007. In January 2001, Wong was employed as a non-executive director to the
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by Li Ka-shing and her employment aroused public concern. Some public opinions feared she had only stepped down from the Housing Authority for only seven months and it was inappropriate for her to be employed to a real property corporation. A few legislators also worried that Wong would no longer represent the interest of social workers by having a closer relationship with the business sector. Yet, she responded that she would only receive 5,000
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annually as director's emoluments from the directorship and she promised to bring the voice of the social work sector into the corporation. Since 2003, Wong has been appointed as a Hong Kong member of the
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National Committee of the People's Republic of China. There was little controversy within the pro-Beijing camp of Hong Kong over the appointment since it was the first time for Wong to be admitted to a mainland Chinese official organisation. Some criticised she had had pro-British background while some said she had a close friendship with former Chief Secretary,
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. Yet, all these criticism died out soon.〈行會前成員獲委政協. 王䓪鳴入選惹左派爭議〉. 《蘋果日報》A04. 22 January 2003.


Personal life

Wong married Dr. Alfred Tam Yat-chung, a
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, on 15 September 1979. They had two children, Joyce (born 1981) and Jonathan (born 1985). In 1991, the couple went to study in the United States, during a difficult time in their marriage. They were divorced in 1992, after Alfred began another relationship. While married, she styled herself as Mrs. Rosanna Tam Wong Yick-ming.


Honours


Conferments

* Unofficial Justice of the Peace (16 January 1989) *
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(
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, 1990) *
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(Queen's Birthday Honours, 1994) *
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(
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, 1997)


Honorary doctorates

*Doctorates of Law **
Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a public research university in Ma Liu Shui, Hong Kong, formally established in 1963 by a charter granted by the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. It is the territory's second-oldest university an ...
(1996) **
University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...
(1999) *Doctorates of Social Science **
Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is a public research university located in Hung Hom, Hong Kong near Hung Hom station. The University is one of the eight government-funded degree-granting tertiary institutions in Hong Kong. Founded ...
(2002) **
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 ...
(2003"Wong, Rosanna Yick-ming", ''HKU Honorary Graduates'', 2003.) **
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(2004)


Honorary memberships

* Hong Kong Institute of Housing (Honorary Fellow, 1994) *
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(Honorary Member, 1994)


List of publications

* 《從政路上》. 香港:香港基督教服務處. 1992. ** (''On the Road of Politics'', Hong Kong: Hong Kong Christian Service, 1992.)* * 《也曾同路-給香港青年的書信》. 香港:香港基督教服務處. 1996. ** (''Once on the Same Road – Letters to the Teenagers of Hong Kong'', Hong Kong: Hong Kong Christian Service, 1996.)* * *''Please be noted that the English translations are for reference only.''


See also

*
Hong Kong Housing Authority The Hong Kong Housing Authority (HA) is the main provider of public housing in Hong Kong. It was established in April 1973 under the Housing Ordinance and is an agency of the Government of Hong Kong. In the same year, the Resettlement Departm ...
* Baroness Dunn *
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 pe ...
*
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*
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Footnotes


References


English materials

* Edited by Kevin Sinclair, ''Who's who in Hong Kong'', Hong Kong: Who's Who in Hong Kong Ltd.: Asianet Information Services Ltd., 1988. * ''London Gazette''
no. 52173, page 17
15 June 1990. * ''London Gazette''
no. 53696, page 16
10 June 1994. * NICK TABAKOFF, "HSBC TOPS UP NAMES ON BOARD", ''South China Morning Post'', 27 November 1996. * ''London Gazette''
no. 54625, page 24
30 December 1996. * , Hong Kong Government Website, 1998. *
OFFICIAL RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS
', Legislative Council of Hong Kong, 23 June 2000. *
Wong, Rosanna Yick-ming
, ''HKU Honorary Graduates'', 2003.


Chinese materials

* 岑維休主編. 《香港年鑑》. 香港:華僑日報. 1990. dited by SHAM Wai-yau, ''Hong Kong Year Book'', Hong Kong: Oversea Chinese Daily, 1990.* 何良懋. 《香港的童年》. 香港:新雅文化事業有限公司. 1997. O Leung-mau, ''The Childhood of Hong Kong'', Hong Kong: Sun Ya Publications (HK) Ltd, 1997.* 〈房委會歡迎新任主席〉. 《新聞公報》. 香港:香港特別行政區政府新聞處. 2000-9-29. HA Welcomes New chairman", ''Press Release'', Hong Kong: HKSAR Government News Agency, 29 September 2000.* 〈王䓪鳴任長實非執行董事. 議員憂行會權力轉移工商界〉. 《星島日報》A09. 2001-1-26. Rosanna Wong Appointed Cheung Kong's non-executive director – Legislators Fear Exco Will Be Pro-Business", ''Sing Tao Daily'': A09, 26 January 2001.* 〈火鳳凰. 王䓪鳴〉. 《壹週刊》時事短打. 2001-5-3. Phoenix: Rosanna Wong", ''Next Magazine'', 3 May 2001.* 〈彭定康愛將回歸前封爵〉. 《太陽報》A01. 2001-5-6. Chris Patten's Confidant Received Damehood before Handover", ''The Sun'': A01, 6 May 2001.* 〈王䓪鳴:不知「八萬五」怎訂出. 承認低估地盤監督風險〉. 《蘋果日報》A16. 2001-5-9. Rosanna Wong: Don't Know Where Did '85,000 Policy' Come From – Confess Underestimation of Risk in Monitoring Construction Sites", ''Apple Daily'': A16, 9 May 2001.* 〈王䓪鳴認低估. 監管工程難度. 建屋高峰準備足夠否. 也值得商榷〉. 《香港經濟日報》A28. 2001-5-9. Rosanna Wong Confesses Underestimation of the Difficulty on Constructions' Supervision. Preparation for Massive Construction is Questioned", ''Hong Kong Economic Times'': A28, 9 May 2001.* 〈黃星華反駁王䓪鳴. 指建屋量由房委會制訂〉. 《新報》A03. 2001-5-13. Dominic Wong Rebuts Rosanna Wong: Target Amount of Public Housing Flats to be Built was Planned by the HA", ''Hong Kong Daily News'': A03, 13 May 2001.* 〈刀槍不入. 王䓪鳴〉. 《壹週刊》時事. 2001-10-4. The Unbeatable Rosanna Wong", ''Next Magazine'', 4 October 2001.* 〈范太當年被禁參加運動會〉. 《蘋果日報》A06. 2002-3-19. No Sport Day to Mrs Fan in Good Old Days", ''Apple Daily'': A06, 19 March 2002.* 〈唐英年等獲理大榮譽博士〉. 《大公報》B02. 2002-11-28. Henry Tang and Others Receive Poly Tech's Honorary Doctorates", ''Ta Kung Pao'': B02, 28 November 2002.* 〈公屋短樁醜聞經過〉. 《大公報》A07. 2003-1-23. The Whole Story of the Public Housing Short-pilings Scandal", ''Ta Kung Pao'': A07, 23 January 2003.* 〈立會公屋短樁調查報告完成. 王䓪鳴苗學禮黃星華遭譴責〉. 《蘋果日報》A08. 2003-1-21. Legco's Public Housing Short-pilings Scandal Report Completed – Rosanna Wong, Tony Miller and Dominic Wong Denounced", ''Apple Daily'': A08, 21 January 2003.* 〈立會短樁報告. 暗批「八萬五」肇禍〉. 《香港經濟日報》A22. 2003-1-21. Legco's Short-pilings' Report Implies '85,000 Policy' is the Origin", ''Hong Kong Economic Times'': A22, 21 January 2003.* 〈行會前成員獲委政協. 王䓪鳴入選惹左派爭議〉. 《蘋果日報》A04. 2003-1-22. Former Exco Member Appointed to CPPCC, Rosanna Wong's Appointment Arouses Controversy Amongst the Leftists", ''Apple Daily'': A04, 22 January 2003.* 《香港特區名人錄》. 香港:星島日報出版社. 2004. 'Hong Kong Who's Who'', Hong Kong: Sing Tao Daily Press, 2004.*
王䓪鳴博士
. 《香港教育學院第十屆畢業典禮》. 2004-11-19. Dr Rosanna Wong", ''Citations in the Tenth Graduation Ceremony of the Hong Kong Institute of Education'', 19 November 2004.


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