Tsang Tak-sing

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Tsang Tak-sing
曾德成
Tsang Tak-sing
Incumbent
Assumed office 
2007
Nationality Chinese, Guangzhou, China

Tsang Tak-sing (Chinese: 曾德成, 1949-), born in Guangzhou, is the Secretary for Home Affairs of Hong Kong. Formerly an adviser to the Central Policy Unit, he assumed office on July 1st 2007, replacing Patrick Ho. He is the younger brother of Tsang Yok-sing, who was the legistlative councilor and former chairman of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong. Tsang is regarded as pro-Beijing with a long history of supporting the Communist Party of China.

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[edit] Early years

[edit] 1967 HK riot participant

Tsang is a leftist who participated in the Hong Kong 1967 Leftist Riots[1], when he was a Form Six student at St Paul's College.[2]

[edit] Arrest

He was arrested after distributing anti-government leaflets, which condemned "the education system aiming at enslavement". He was jailed for two years for distributing "inflammatory leaflets"[1], and deprived of his university education owing to his criminal record.[2]

[edit] Career

A younger brother of Tsang Yok-sing, he joined the New Evening Post after his release from Stanley Prison in 1969. He became chief editor of Ta Kung Pao in 1988. He has been a Hong Kong deputy to the National People's Congress since the same year and was appointed an adviser to the Central Policy Unit in 1998.

In December 2007 just days after Anson Chan's pro-democratic party victory in the 2007 Hong Kong island by-election, he accused her of being a "sudden democrat" who "suddenly cares about people's livelihood".[1] He further commented "Our new legislator today is a former official ... Unless she believes that colonial rule was democracy, I don't know whether she has worked for people's livelihood or officials' livelihood."[1]

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[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b c d "Chan 'flabbergasted' by attack" South China Morning Post, Thursday, December 6, 2006
  2. ^ a b Fu, Hualing. Petersen, Carole. Young, Simon N. M. National Security and Fundamental Freedoms: Hong Kong's Article 23 Under Scrutiny. [2005] (2005). Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 9622097324.

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