Fernando Cheung Chiu-hung (simplified Chinese: 张超雄; traditional Chinese: 張超雄; born 23 February 1957, Macau) is a Hong Kong politician, the vice-chairman of the Civic Party, he is a former member of the Legislative Council.
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, and worked as a physician. He also served as the head of an Asian r...
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Fernando Cheung Chiu-hung (simplified Chinese: 张超雄; traditional Chinese: 張超雄; born 23 February 1957, Macau) is a Hong Kong politician, the vice-chairman of the Civic Party, he is a former member of the Legislative Council.
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, and worked as a physician. He also served as the head of an Asian rights organization (屋崙華人服務社) in San Francisco.
After he moved 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. He had close relationship with the left wing pro-democrats. He joined the functional constituency of social welfare of the Legislative Council in 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;...
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