Alvin Yeung

Alvin Yeung Ngok-kiu (Chinese: 楊岳橋, born 1981) is a barrister and politician in Hong Kong. He is currently member of the Civic Party.

Biography

Yeung was born in Yuen Long, Hong Kong in 1981 as the only child to a restaurant owner and a jewellery dealer, Yeung and his parents emigrated to Canada in the early 1990s after the Tiananmen massacre in 1989.^[1] Yeung was graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a degree of political science and obtained a master of laws in constitutional and administrative laws from the Peking University around 2003.

Inspired by the large-scale 2003 July 1 march, Yeung joined a group called “7.1 People Pile". He campaigned for Alan Leong Kah-kit, a barrister-turned-politician in the 2004 Legislative Council election. The next year, he went to studied master of arts in legal studies from the University of Bristol and became a certified barrister in 2008.^[1]

He joined the Civic Party in 2011 and ran in the 2011 District Council election in Tai Po Market but was defeated. He later elected to the Election Committee through the legal subsector in the Hong Kong Election Committee Subsector election, 2011. In 2012 Legislative Council election, he partnered with Ronny Tong Ka-wah to run in the New Territories East and successfully got Tong re-elected. He had given up his Canadian citizenship for the candidacy in the election.^[2]

Yeung is currently chairman of the New Territories East branch of the party and member of the Appeal Panel (Housing),^[3] and also co-host of the political talk-show “Teacup in a Storm” on D100 radio station.^[1]

He was named by Ronny Tong when Tong resigned from the Legislative Council in June 2015 to take up the seat in the upcoming New Territories East by-election, 2016.

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