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FRIDAY, APRIL 2

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PROVISIONAL REGIONAL COUNCIL APPOINTMENTS

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SIX MEN AND TWO WOMEN, ALL ACTIVE IN COMMUNITY SERVICE AND AVERAGING 40 YEARS OF AGE, HAVE BEEN APPOINTED TO THE 24-MEMBER PROVISIONAL REGIONAL COUNCIL, THE REGIONAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCED TODAY (FRIDAY).

THEY INCLUDED TWO EDUCATORS, TWO MERCHANTS, ONE LAWYER, ONE ENGINEER, ONE DOCTOR AND ONE HOUSEWIFE. FOUR OF

FOUR OF THEM WERE ALSO FORMER NEW TERRITORIES DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS.

THE EIGHT NEW APPOINTEES WILL JOIN THE HONOURABLE CHEUNG YAN-LUNG, WHO HAS ALREADY BEEN APPOINTED CHAIRMAN OF THE PROVISIONAL REGIONAL COUNCIL. THREE MORE MEMBERS WILL BE APPOINTED FROM THE HEUNG YEE KUK AFTER IT HAS HELD ITS ELECTION AT THE END OF MAY.

THE REST OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERSHIP WILL COMPRISE A REPRESENTATIVE FROM EACH OF THE NINE NEW TERRITORIES DISTRICT BOARDS AND THE THREE EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS OF THE HEUNG YEE KUK - NAMELY ITS CHAIRMAN AND TWO VICE-CHAIRMEN, WHO ARE, AT PRESENT, MR LAU WONG-FAT, MR LIU CHING-LEUNG AND MR TSANG LÍN.

THE EIGHT NEWLY APPOINTED MEMBERS ARE,

MRS CHAN HO ON-NEI, 40, CHAIRWOMAN OF THE SOUTH KWAI CHUNG YIN NGAI SOCIETY AND A TYPICAL HOUSEWIFE WHO HAS CONTRIBUTED MUCH OF HER SPARE TIME TO COMMUNITY SERVICE ACTIVITIES;

MR WILLIAM CHAU CHUN-WING, 31, A MERCHANT AND A FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE YAN CHAI HOSPITAL;

MR CARLOS CHEUNG HON-KAU, 46, A CONSULTING CIVIL AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEER AND FORMER MEMBER OF THE TAI PO DISTRICT BOARD;

MR CHONG KAM-NING, 40, A MERCHANT AND FORMER MEMBER OF THE NORTH DISTRICT BOARD;

DR RICHARD HO MAN-WUI, 38, A LECTURER IN CHINESE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE AT THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG;

MRS MIRIAM LAU KIN-YEE, 38, A SOLICITOR WHO HOLDS OFFICE IN SEVERAL WOMEN'S ASSOCIATIONS;

MR NATHAN MA NING-HEI, 53, PRINCIPAL OF THE YUEN LONG LUTHERAN MIDDLE SCHOOL AND FORMER MEMBER OF THE YUEN LONG DISTRICT BOARD;

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DR PANG HOK-TU ̃N, 41, A MEDICAL PRACTITIONER AND FORMER MEN CD OF THE NORTH DISTRICT BOARD;

/THE PROVISIONAL