Politics
There are 21 profiles in this category :
Nat Wei, Baron Wei
Social Entrepreneur and a member of the House of Lords
Business. Charities. Community. Politics. Social Enterprise.
Lord Wei is a social entrepreneur, interested in social reform, a member of the House of Lords and was previously an adviser to the UK Government on their Big Society project.
Lord Wei’s Chinese ancestry can be traced back to a village in Zhuhai, on the southern coast of the Guangdong province. His ancestral home is 2 villages away from that of Sun Yat-sen, whom incidentally, Lord Wei enjoys reading and learning about.
He is fluent in English, has a working knowledge of Chinese Cantonese, French and German. Lord Wei is also currently actively learning Chinese Mandarin from the Confucious Insitute of Business at the London School of Economics.
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Councillor Allan Siao Ming Witherick BSc(Hons) (Lond:UCL) FRSA
Liberal Democrat politicianCharities. Community. Politics.
Full job titles:
- Liberal Democrat Spokesman Adult Care Services, County Councillor, Hertfordshire County Council
- Liberal Democrat District Councillor, St Albans City & District Council
- Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate Broxbourne 2010
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Jackson Ng 黄精明
Parliamentary Liaison Officer at UK Parliament, Solicitor AdvocateBusiness. Community. Law. Politics.
Jackson Ng is originally from The Netherlands but has spent the majority of his life living in the United Kingdom, in addition to having lived in Australia, Singapore and The Netherlands.
He is equally fluent in English, Mandarin and Cantonese and has a working knowledge of Dutch.
Jackson works very closely with The Lord Wei of Shoreditch at the House of Lords on various areas such as the British Chinese community, Britain - China related matters and has been involved in the setting up of the All Party Parliamentary Group on East Asian Businesses where he is now also serving as its Parliamentary Liaison Officer in the Houses of Parliament. Along with Lord Wei, he also spends a considerate amount of his time engaging with the British Chinese community and not-for-profit organisations. He is also assisting Lord Wei in co-designing social and civic projects which will look to help the British Chinese community.
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Dr Teck Keong Khong
General Medical Practitioner and Forensic Physician, and Parliamentary Candidate of the Conservative PartyCommunity. Politics. Science.
Dr Teck Khong read medicine at Sheffield University and law at Cardiff University. Although his medical practice is in Leicester, Dr Khong also consults at the Out-of-Hours medical centre in Danetre Hospital, Daventry. Additionally, he is a forensic physician for the Northamptonshire Police.
He is a member of the Local Medical Committee, a past-president of the Leicestershire and Rutland Division of the BMA and a past-president of the Leicestershire Medico-Legal Society. Although he has not been selected for the 2010 General Election, he remains an approved parliamentary candidate of the Conservative Party.
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George Lee
Parliamentary CandidateBusiness. Community. Politics.
I have a photo of a ramshackle pig shed. It’s a picture of where I was born. Sometimes, searching for other things, I come across it. It’s another world now, so far away it’s like looking the wrong way through a telescope. But it’s where I began.
My parents left rural poverty in Hong Kong for Britain when I was one. My brothers and sisters and I stayed, in the care of a family friend. It was a big change, but not what my parents had hoped. Instead of going to school, we made plastic flowers in a toy factory for the woman they had trusted with our care. I was ten when we joined my parents. I knew one English word when I arrived; ‘tomorrow’.
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Steven Cheung
MEP Candidate and Radio PresenterCommunity. Film, TV & Radio. Politics.
Steven Dominique Cheung is a British Chinese Filipino seeking support to stand in the June 4th European Election. He is the first British Chinese-Filipino MEP Candidate and the World's youngest.
Born in Hong Kong on 7 October 1989 and grew up in London with two younger brothers, Steven's father is Chinese and his mother is Filipino. His family settled in the United Kingdom in 2002.
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John Gittings
Research Associate, Centre of Chinese Studies, SOAS; Associate, Oxford Research Group.Politics.
John Gittings was for many years chief foreign leader-writer and East Asia Editor at The Guardian. In the late 1960s he worked with the Far Eastern Economic Review in Hong Kong. He first reported from China in 1971 during the Cultural Revolution, when he visited with a delegation from the Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding. A second visit in 1976, during the "April 5th Incident", was followed by regular travel while teaching at the Polytechnic of Central London (where he formed the basis of the Chinese poster collection -- now at the University of Westminster).
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Andrew K P Leung SBS FRSA
Chairman, Andrew Leung International Consultants LimitedBusiness. Politics.
Andrew is an international China Specialist with over 40 years experience in a variety of senior positions involving Mainland China and Hong Kong. He has founded an international China business consultancy based in London.
Andrew has addressed numerous local and international business and strategic forums on China. His speaking profile can be found at City Speakers International. He appears regularly for live interviews on various international TV stations including CNBC Europe, BBC World, and Aljazeera (English Channel). He contributes many insightful commentaries and presentations on China, some posted on his website at Andrew Leung International Consultants.
Andrew is a registered Reuters Insight expert for services worldwide and is a Council Member of the Gerson Lehrman Group (global experts) He has been appointed a Global Commercial Agent for Changsha City, China.
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Ya-Lan Chuang 庄雅兰
Business Executive and Cross Culture Communications ConsultantBusiness. Community. Education. Politics.
Since 1998 Yalan has been working as a professional Mandarin language and cross-cultural communication training manager and consultant to individuals, corporate organisations and governmental bodies in the UK, France, and Asia.
Outside of the training arena, Yalan has also successfully employed her background in business and finance to facilitate multinationals, financial institutions, European Commission on a number of Euro-Sino projects ( approx. €2 million/project), which involved strategy advice on the pre Joint-Venture (JV) due diligence, integration of multicultural teams post JV, high-street fashion branding and marketing penetration in emerging markets.
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Edmond Yeo
CouncillorCommunity. Politics.
Councillor Edmond Yeo is the current Chairperson of the Chinese information and Advice Centre, a post he has held since September 2004. During his time in office, he has initiated a number of new projects; including a capital appeal to raise funds for the purchase of the centres own office premises.
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