Peter Shiu

The Honourable
Shiu Ka-fai
邵家輝
Member of the Legislative Council
Assumed office
1 October 2016
Preceded by Vincent Fang
Constituency Wholesale and Retail
Personal details
Born (1970-04-22) 22 April 1970
Nationality New Zealander (until 2012)
Hong Kong Chinese (since 2012)
Political party Liberal Party
Alma mater University of Auckland

Peter Shiu Ka-fai (Chinese: 邵家輝, born 22 April 1970) is the current Vice-Chairman of the Liberal Party and a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. He is also a member of Eastern District Council, for Braemar Hill on Hong Kong Island.

He graduated from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He is a Liberal Party member and has been a member of the Executive Committee since 2009. He is the chairperson of the Liberal Party’s Ban Gay Marriage Hong Kong and has suggested that children reading books about homosexuality might confuse them or distort how they think about families.[1] In December 2014, he was elected Vice-Chairman of the party with Vincent Fang Kang and Felix Chung Kwok-pan as the party Leader and Chairman respectively.[2]

In the 2016 Hong Kong legislative election, Shiu won a seat in the Wholesale and Retail functional constituency, keeping the seat in Liberal hands, with 65 percent of the vote.

He was appointed to the Buildings Appeal Tribunal Panel, Independent Police Complaints Commission and Observers and Business Facilitation Advisory Committee. He has been a member of the Eastern District Council since the 2007 District Council elections through the Braemar Hill constituency. In the 2011 Election Committee elections, he was elected to the Election Committee through Hong Kong and Kowloon District Council subsector.[2]

He is a director of the Master Proofer Corporation.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Deng, Andrea. "Breaking the gender barrier". China Daily.
  2. 1 2 3 "Shiu, Peter Ka Fai 邵家輝". Webb-site Who's who.
Political offices
Preceded by
Chan Bing-woon		 Member of Eastern District Council
Representative for Braemar Hill
2007–present 		Incumbent
Party political offices
Preceded by
Vincent Fang
Felix Chung		 Vice-chairperson of Liberal Party
2014–present 		Incumbent
Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Preceded by
Vincent Fang		 Member of Legislative Council
Representative for Wholesale and Retail
2016–present 		Incumbent
Order of precedence
Preceded by
Holden Chow
Member of the Legislative Council		 Hong Kong order of precedence
Member of the Legislative Council 		Succeeded by
Shiu Ka-chun
Member of the Legislative Council
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