Lo Hoi-sing

Lo Hoi-sing (羅海星; 1949 – 14 January 2010) was a Hong Kong businessman born into a communist Hong Kong family. He is famous for rescuing Chinese dissidents in Operation Yellowbird after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, for which he was arrested in 1989.^[1] He was later released at the request of British Prime Minister John Major in 1991.

Biography

Lo Hoi-sing was born in 1949 to Lo Fu (羅孚), a communist Chinese editor of a Hong Kong newspaper. Hoi-sing was raised and educated in Hong Kong and later continued his studies in the city of Guangzhou, where he experienced the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. He later returned to Hong Kong and began working for a communist newspaper, like his father.

Hoi-Sing left his association with the Chinese Communist Party when his father was arrested by the communist Chinese communist government. He instead began working in Beijing as the chief representative for the Trade Development Council of Hong Kong, but he resigned the post in early 1989 after seeking business opportunities in the trade between Hong Kong and PRC.

Hoi-sing died in 2010 at Queen Mary Hospital in Pok Fu Lam from the combined effects of a lung infection, diabetes and a weak immune system.^[2]

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