Michael Suen | |
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孫明揚 | |
Chief Secretary for Administration Acting | |
In office 28 September 2011 –30 September 2011 | |
Chief Executive | Sir Donald Tsang |
Preceded by | Henry Tang |
Succeeded by | Stephen Lam |
In office 25 May 2005 –30 May 2005 | |
Chief Executive | Henry Tang (Acting) Sir Donald Tsang |
Preceded by | Sir Donald Tsang |
Succeeded by | Rafael Hui |
Secretary for Constitutional Affairs | |
In office 4 August 1997 –30 June 2002 | |
Chief Executive | Tung Chee-hwa |
Preceded by | Nicholas Ng |
Succeeded by | Stephen Lam |
In office 1 March 1989 –2 October 1991 | |
Governor | David Wilson |
Preceded by | John Chan |
Succeeded by | Michael Sze |
Secretary for Home Affairs | |
In office 7 November 1991 –3 August 1997 | |
Governor | David Wilson Chris Patten |
Secretary for Education | |
In office 1 July 2007 –30 June 2012 | |
Chief Executive | Sir Donald Tsang |
Preceded by | Arthur Li (as Secretary for Education and Manpower) |
Succeeded by | Eddie Ng |
Secretary for Housing,Planning and Lands | |
In office 1 July 2002 –30 June 2007 | |
Chief Executive | Tung Chee-hwa Sir Donald Tsang |
Personal details | |
Born | Chongqing,China | 7 April 1944
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Traditional Chinese | 孫明揚 | ||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 孙明扬 | ||||||||||||
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Michael Suen Ming-yeung GBM GBS CBE (born 7 April 1944) who served as the acting Chief Secretary for Administration in 2005 and 2012 and as Secretary for Education of Hong Kong from 2007 to 2012.
Born in Chongqing in 1944,his family fled the then provisional capital of Republic of China to Hong Kong in 1947.
Suen attended Wah Yan College,a Jesuit school in Hong Kong. [1]
He joined the British Hong Kong Government in 1966 as an Administrative Officer and was promoted to the rank of Director of Bureau in January 1991. [2]
During the early years of his career,he served in the former New Territories Administration,Resettlement Department and Environment Branch. He was appointed Secretary for Constitutional Affairs in March 1989 and Secretary for Home Affairs in November 1991. He continued his post as Secretary for Home Affairs on 8 July 1997 and took up the appointment as Secretary for Constitutional Affairs on 4 August 1997. Suen took up the post of Secretary for Housing,Planning and Lands on 1 July 2002. [2]
Upon the resignation of Donald Tsang on 25 May 2005,he assumed the post as the acting Chief Secretary for Administration,until Rafael Hui was appointed. In July 2007,he took over the position of Secretary for Education after Arthur Li retired. [3]
Around 2007 he was known for pushing trilingual education with English,Cantonese and Putonghua to boost Hong Kong's competitiveness. [4]
On 27 April 2011,Suen announced that he was suffering from renal failure. [5] Suen was also diagnosed with Legionnaires' disease on 21 December 2011. The new HK government headquarters found as many as 19 areas contaminated with legionella bacteria out of 43 water samples. Suen announced his recovery in January 2012.
For years as a housing chief,Suen denied to meet with housing rights activists until 2007,when some 30 activists,including Longhair Leung Kwok-hung finally camped out at Suen's house in Happy Valley to protest. Public housing citizens were suffering from excessive rent increase,and the activists tried to voice the concern. The protest turned violent outside his home,with five policemen and one protester injured. Leung was also arrested. [6]
In 1994 Suen purchased a new home,the low-rise Shuk Yuen building in Green Lane Happy Valley. He then illegally extended the size of his home to make it bigger. As the former Secretary for Housing,Planning and Lands,his staff reportedly warned him against the illegal extension, [7] [8] sending him a letter in April 2006 to remove the extension,which he reportedly ignored. In 2011,he agreed to reduce the size of the structure. Both the democratic and pro-Beijing camps criticised him. [9]
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