Kenneth Low

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Kenneth Mang-Kwong Low is a Fijian businessman and political leader of Chinese descent. He unsuccessfully contested the parliamentary election of 1999 as an independent candidate for the Suva City General Electors Communal Constituency. He also lost the 2001 election for the Suva City General Electors Communal Constituency where he was the candidate of the United Fiji Party (SDL), but was appointed to the Senate as one of nine nominees of the Fijian government, and became Vice-President of the Senate on 28 February 2005, following the appointment of the previous Vice-President, Ahmed Ali to a Cabinet position.

Low, who is also the President of the Chinese Business Association in Fiji, has joined much of the Fiji-born Chinese community in calling for a crackdown on illegal immigration from mainland China, which he says is detrimental to the local-born Chinese and their reputation. He alleged on 8 November 2005 that corrupt officials were granting Fijian citizenship to illegal Chinese immigrants, and falsely recording their ethnicity as indigenous Fijian, for financial and sexual favours, and called for a full inquiry into what was going on.

Low retired from the Senate in June 2006.