Emily Lau

Quick Facts

Full Name	Emily Lau
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jan 21, 1952(1952-01-21)
Age	72
Country	Hong Kong
Horoscope	Capricorn

Emily Lau Biography

Emily Lau is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on January 21, 1952 in Hong Kong. Lau was born January 21, 1952, in Hong Kong. In 1948, her parents relocated to Guangdong Province to Hong Kong during the Chinese Civil War. In 1962, she attended the newly-opened English-language Maryknoll Sisters’ School in Happy Valley, where she continued to study until 1972. While she was in elementary school she was given the English name Emily by her aunt.

Stephen Lau Sing-hung Emily Lau’s younger brother was an Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Guangzhou committee member during the 1980s. He also served as chair of Ernst and Young’s tax division prior to his departure in 2006 and was the chief executive officer for China Timber Resources Group from 2007 until 2010. Despite the political views of his sister and his political stance, he gained notoriety when he filed a lawsuit at the Small Claims Tribunal for HK$314.60 against Occupy Central’s creator Benny Tai during the 2014 Hong Kong protests. The claim was made because the man had to pay $330 for a taxi ride on the 6th of October, instead of HK$5.40 for the bus ride from his home on Wong Nai Chung Gap Road to Central as the occupation movement halted the regular bus service. Emily Lau said she was unaware of her brother’s decision, however she claimed that her family didn’t agree with Stephen Lau’s claims.

In December 1984, after signing the Sino-British Joint Declaration, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher flew to Hong Kong to give a press conference. Lau questioned Thatcher: “Prime Minister, two days ago you signed an agreement with China promising to deliver over 5 million people into the hands of a communist dictatorship. Is that morally defensible, or is it really true that in international politics the highest form of morality is one’s own national interest?” Thatcher replied by saying that everyone in Hong Kong was happy with the agreement, and Lau may be a solitary exception.

Lau returned to Hong Kong as Hong Kong correspondent of the Hong Kong-based Far Eastern Economic Review in 1984. The position allowed her access and insights into the politics of the colonial Hong Kong. In 1987 Lau took up a position at the Journalism and Communication Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and subsequently at the Extra-Mural Department of the University of Hong Kong (HKU).

in 1976 Lau obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Broadcast Journalism from University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. Lau later mentioned the Watergate scandal as well as investigative journalism which had a significant impact on her beliefs about the role and the potential of the press free.

Emily Lau Net Worth

Emily Lau is one of the richest Politician from Hong Kong. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Emily Lau 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Emily Lau Waihing, JP (Chinese: Liu Hui Qing born on 22 January 1952) is a politician from Hong Kong who champions press freedom and human rights. Formerly a journalist She was the first woman to be elected directly to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in the year 1991 LegCo elections. She was a an Legislative Councillor in the New Territories East Constituency throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s until she left in the year. She was the chairperson of Hong Kong’s Democratic Party of Hong Kong from 2000 until.

After her return back to Hong Kong, Lau worked between 1976 between 1976 and 1978 as a reporter at The South China Morning Post, the largest english- language daily within Hong Kong. Lau then began working in television journalism when she joined Television Broadcasts (TVB) and was promoted to the position of senior producer in the year 1981. Her studies continued in the beginning of decade at the London School of Economics and finished the MSc on International Relations at the age of 1982. She worked as an associate producer for the BBC in the years 1982-84, as well as simultaneously working as the London correspondent for Hong Kong TVB News.

In 1983, Lau married John Ball, a British journalist from the Sunday Times. The marriage lasted two years. In 1989, Lau remarried to a Hong Kong lawyer, Winston Poon, QC. They met in London during her visit to discuss the Hong Kong Basic Law with the members of Parliament of the United Kingdom. In 2006, she changed her marital status to “unmarried” in the Legislative Council office registry.

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In 1993, Lau tabled a motion to seek assurances of right of abode in Britain for the British National (Overseas) passport holders in case they were expelled from Hong Kong after 1997. The motion was supported by 36 legislators but was rejected by the Secretary for Security Alistair Asprey. In October 1994, Lau led legislators in urging Britain to grant full citizenship to 3.5 million native Hong Kong British Dependent Territories Citizens (BDTC). As part of this action, she led a cross-party delegation of Hong Kong legislators to Britain to lobby government and opposition politicians ahead of the LegCo debate. The five councillors met the British Foreign Secretary and other senior officials, but achieved little.

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Emily Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Hong Kong. Emily Lau celebrates birthday on January 21 of every year.

Lau also participated in street protests and in December 1996 she scuffled with the riot police outside the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre together with Andrew Cheng and Lee Cheuk-yan, while demonstrating outside the closed-door election for the post-handover Chief executive. She was therefore arrested with 29 other pro-democracy activists. Over the months leading up to the July 1997 handover, Lau urged the Chief executive-designate Tung Chee-hwa to stand up against Beijing, since his “unreserved support” for the Beijing- hand-picked Provisional Legislative Council resulted in the abolishment or modification of important Hong Kong laws covering human rights and civil liberties. In March of the same year Lau called for the boycott of Hong Kong’s future first election under PRC rule, condemning the voting system as unfair and the proportional representation as highly favouring pro-Beijing candidates.