Samson Tam Wai-ho, JP () (born 26 February 1964 in

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 the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...

) was an elected member of the

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(

Functional constituency A functional constituency is an electoral device (a non-geographical constituency) used within the political systems of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China: * Functional constituency (Hong Kong) * Functional cons ...

Information Technology Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to create, process, store, retrieve, and exchange all kinds of Data (computing), data . and information. IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). An information te ...

) from 2008 to 2012. He is the chairman and one of the

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of Group Sense (International) Limited, the

manufacturer Manufacturing is the creation or production of goods with the help of equipment, labor, machines, tools, and chemical or biological processing or formulation. It is the essence of secondary sector of the economy. The term may refer to ...

of " Instant-Dict" ()

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. He graduated from

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with a

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degree. Afterwards he was awarded a PhDbr>degree
by Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received "The Young Industrialist Award of Hong Kong" in 1992 and was named one of the “

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” in 1997. He is also the president of

Kitchee SC Kitchee Sports Club (; ; ) is a Hong Kong professional football club based in Kowloon. It was founded in 1931 and currently competes in the Hong Kong Premier League. The club has won championships in Hong Kong 11 times, including 6 Hong Kong ...

. Samson won the seat of functional constituency (information technology) in the

election in the year 2008, defeating Charles Mok, by 35 votes. In the run-up to 23 June 2010 Legco vote on the Hong Kong government's 2009 reform package, he offered his support if it included the Democratic Party's compromise proposal to have the five new district council functional constituency seats returned by popular election. In the year 2012, Samson lost his seat in the

to Charles Mok, by 765 votes."Traditional Functional Constituency Election"
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Official site of Samson Tam
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tam, Samson 1964 births Living people Hong Kong businesspeople Alumni of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Alumni of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University HK LegCo Members 2008–2012 Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2007–2012 Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2017–2021

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