Fernando Cheung
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The Honourable Dr. Fernando Cheung Chiu-hung | |
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張超雄 | |
Cheung in 2013 | |
Member of the Legislative Council | |
Assumed office 1 October 2012 | |
Preceded by | Andrew Cheng |
Constituency | Sha Tin District |
In office 1 October 2004 – 30 September 2008 | |
Preceded by | Law Chi-kwong |
Succeeded by | Cheung Kwok-che |
Constituency | Social Welfare |
Personal details | |
Born | Macau | 23 February 1957
Political party | Civic Party (2006–2010) Labour Party (since 2011) |
Children | 3 |
Alma mater | St. Paul's College Hong Kong Baptist University (BSocSc) California State University (MSW) University of California, Berkeley, (Ph.D) |
Occupation | Lecturer Social worker |
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Traditional Chinese | 張超雄 | ||||||||
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Fernando Cheung Chiu-hung (張超雄; born 23 February 1957, in Macau) is a Hong Kong politician, the vice-chairman of the Labour Party, and a member of the Legislative Council.
Career[edit]
Cheung worked in the United States from 1988, and became a naturalized United States citizen. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990.[1] He served as the head of the Oakland Chinese Community Council (屋崙華人服務社). His paternal grandmother is a native of Peru.[2]
On moving back to Hong Kong in 1996, he became a lecturer at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He became the vice-convener of Civil Human Rights Front in 2002, where he had developed a close relationship with the pro-democrats. He joined the functional constituency of social welfare of the Legislative Council in 4 June 2004. He defeated Cheung Kwok-chu by a razor-thin 64 votes. After he won the election, he refused to visit Beijing on 30 September 2004 with nine other pro-democratic legislators; choosing to protest on that day for Hong Kong residents instead.
Cheung introduced a motion for the referendum on universal suffrage for the 2007 chief executive elections in Hong Kong. The Chinese government had warned Hong Kong's pro-democracy legislators not to hold a referendum on universal suffrage for 2007/2008. After three members of the pro-democracy camp said they would not vote for his motion at the Legislative Council's constitutional affairs panel meeting, he said, “Perhaps the three councillors feared that a referendum was legally binding in nature and hence their reluctance to support my motion. I believe every democratic lawmaker still accepts the 2007 to 2008 target. Voting against my motion does not mean they have abandoned hope of universal suffrage.”
References[edit]
- ^ "Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region - Members' Biographies". 16 September 2013. Archived from the original on 16 September 2013.
- ^ Emily Kwong, 讓女兒放輕鬆 叫父親太沉重, 13 December 2008, Hong Kong Economic Journal, pg. 7
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Legislative Council of Hong Kong | ||
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Preceded by Law Chi-kwong |
Member of Legislative Council Representative for Social Welfare 2004–2008 |
Succeeded by Cheung Kwok-che |
Preceded by Andrew Cheng |
Member of Legislative Council Representative for New Territories East 2012–present |
Incumbent |
Order of precedence | ||
Preceded by Christopher Cheung Member of the Legislative Council |
Hong Kong order of precedence Member of the Legislative Council |
Succeeded by Helena Wong Member of the Legislative Council |
- 1957 births
- Living people
- Alumni of Hong Kong Baptist University
- Alumni of St. Paul's College, Hong Kong
- Hong Kong emigrants to the United States
- Members of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
- Hong Kong educators
- Hong Kong social workers
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- Civic Party politicians
- Labour Party (Hong Kong) politicians
- Hong Kong social democrats
- Hong Kong people of Peruvian descent
- Hong Kong Polytechnic University faculty
- HK LegCo Members 2004–2008
- HK LegCo Members 2012–2016
- HK LegCo Members 2016–2020
- Macau emigrants to Hong Kong