2017 in Hong Kong

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Events in the year 2017 in Hong Kong .

Incumbents

Carrie Lam

• Chief Executive: Leung Chun-ying (until 30 June); Carrie Lam (from 1 July)

Events

• July 17 - Leung Kwok-hung, Nathan Law, Yiu Chung-yim and Lau Siu-lai were disqualified from LegCo membership.
• 7 September 2017, The Education University of Hong Kong's main campus in Tai Po displayed a message of "congratulations" to Undersecretary for Education Christine Choi Yuk-lin after her son plunged to his death from a residential tower. ^[1] On 8 September 2017, Chief Executive Carrie Lam condemned the poster in the Education University was "extremely callous" and "cold blooded". ^{[2] [3]}
• Hong Kong businessman and former ophthalmologist Patrick Ho and Cheikh Gadio (former Foreign Minister of Senegal) were arrested in New York in late November 2017, charged with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and money laundering. The US Justice Department alleged that the pair offered a US$2 million bribe to the president of Chad for oil rights, and deposited a US$500,000 bribe to an account designated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uganda on behalf of CEFC. ^[4]
• December - Rimsky Yuen tendered resignation from Secretary for Justice. ^[5]

Notable deaths

• 1 January – Alfonso Wong, cartoonist (born 1923). ^[6]
• 2 January – Barbara Fei, opera singer (born 1931). ^[7]

See also

• List of Hong Kong films of 2017

References

1. "Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam condemns 'callous' campus taunts after suicide of top official's son". South China Morning Post. 8 September 2017. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
2. "Carrie Lam denounces callous, cold-blooded, insults against grieving mother". The Standard. 8 September 2017. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
3. "Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam condemns university posters on death of official's son, city's independence". South China Morning Post. 8 September 2017. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
4. "US arrests Patrick Ho over alleged oil bribes". South China Morning Post. 21 November 2017.
5. 呂浩然 (2017-12-22). "任內割地自閹 政治檢控 袁國強辭職 鄭若驊下月接任律政司長". Apple News Daily. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
6. "Creator of 'Lao Fu Zi' comic Alfonso Wong dies". The Straits Times. 3 January 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
7. Chou, Oliver (3 January 2017). "Hong Kong soprano and Allegro Singers founder Barbara Fei Ming-yi dies at 85". scmp.com. Retrieved 8 January 2017.