Lau Siu-lai

Quick Facts

Full Name	Lau Siu-lai
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Aug 3, 1976(1976-08-03)
Age	48
Country	Hong Kong
Horoscope	Leo

Lau Siu-lai Biography

Lau Siu-lai is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on August 3, 1976 in Hong Kong. Lau Siu-lai (Chinese: Liu Xiao Li born on August 3, 1976) is a Hong Kong educator, academic as well as activist and politician. The sociology professor is professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic’s Hong Kong Community College and the creator of Democracy Groundwork and Age of Resistance. In 2016 Lau has been elected to the Legislative Council, representing the Kowloon West geographical constituency until she was removed in court on the 14th of July 2017 for her oath-taking style during the first session of the Legislative Council on 12 October 2016.

In the Legislative Council swearing-in on 12 October 2016, Lau initially read out an amended form of her oath she took to take office to protest. Lau was then asked to read it again and she read it extremely slow. Localist and pro- democratic candidates added additional words of protest in their swearings. LegCo chief Andrew Leung Kwan-yuen rebuffed the oath and issued Lau an email that reads: “The conduct of Ms Lau’s oath-taking, objectively assessed, has shown that she was not serious about the affirmation and had no intention to be bound by it.” Leung demanded Lau, Baggio Leung, Yau Wai-ching, as well as Edward Yiu, who had all protested during the swearing-in ceremony, to repeat their swearing-in.

Running under the banner of Democracy Groundwork, Lau was elected to the Legislative Council in the 2016 election, representing the geographical constituency of Kowloon West. During her election campaign, Lau stated that if elected her top priorities would be to “push back on ‘white elephant’ infrastructure projects, implement a universal pension scheme, legislate standard working hours, reform housing policy, and restart electoral reform.”

Lau’s educational career is under jeopardy due to her hawking-related activism. In mid-2016 the Hong Kong Polytechnic University launched a disciplinary hearing against her for “moonlighting” as she reportedly earned HK$10 selling snacks. Lau said that the university’s actions were politically motivated, stating that senior figures at the institute had told her that the president was under pressure from the university’s governing council to take action against her. Lau donated the $10 to her Democracy Groundwork and defended herself, stating that there was no conflict of interest, that hawking does not constitute formal employment, and that the ban on moonlighting applied only to full-time faculty (while she was a part-time lecturer at the time).

The government was able to challenge Leung’s decision in relation to Yau as well as Baggio Leung in a sweeping move in which they sought to debar two lawmakers who are democratically elected. Lau was not a protester, but in the same manner as Yau Wai-ching as well as Baggio Leung however, didn’t appear to be the target of the court’s order. Lau was officially sworn in on the 2nd of November, in 2016 by Andrew Leung, despite the protests of the pro-Beijing camp. The judge in charge of Yau and Leung’s cases ruled in favor of the government on November 15th 2016 disqualifying the two and disqualifying them from being a member of the legislative.

Lau Siu-lai Net Worth

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

In addition to her previous opinions on hawkers, Lau is also critical on Link REIT, a private real estate corporation which primarily owns markets, shopping centers and car parks within estates for public housing. Link REIT exercises a de facto monopoly in several poorer areas and has faced numerous protests due to the rapid rent hikes, the deportation of local businesses in favor of chain stores and property management outsourcing. There has numerous calls to the federal government purchase back the properties of Link REIT Link REIT, most of that were sold to the Housing Authority in 2005. Lau stated that allowing more street market and hawking could provide more options and encourage competition.

She was a prominent figure in through the establishment of Democracy Groundwork to hold “Democracy Classrooms” during the pro-democratic protests of 2014 and taught protesters about the importance of democracy and social justice. In this capacity, she earned the name “Teacher Siu-lai” (Chinese: Xiao Li Lao Shi ).

The election was held on 4 September 2016, with a total of 36 candidates standing on 15 party lists in the Kowloon West constituency. Standing alone on her list, Lau garnered 38,183 votes, the third highest at 13.69 percent of the total, and the best supported pro-democracy candidate. She is regarded as a member of the localist camp, and pledged to work together with other newly elected localists Eddie Chu and Nathan Law.

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Also in June, it was announced that the by-election for Lau’s seat, the geographical constituency of Kowloon West, would take place on 25 November 2018.

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Lau Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Hong Kong. Lau Siu-lai celebrates birthday on August 3 of every year.

Lau and Leung pursued a legal appeal against their disqualification, meaning that of the six seats left vacant by the removal of pro-democracy Legislative Councillors, only the other four were contested in the by-election of 11 March

2018. However, on 29 May 2018, Lau announced that she was retracting her appeal, given uncertainty from the court about whether it could be heard with Leung’s, as well as the cost and high psychological pressure of the case, and the delay it would cause to the opportunity for the democratic camp to regain the seat in a by-election.