Albert Cheng
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| Member of the Legislative Council (Kowloon East) |
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In office 30 September 2004 – 30 September 2008 |
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| Preceded by | Szeto Wah |
| Succeeded by | seat abolished |
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3 July 1946 Hong Kong |
| Spouse(s) | Irene Lo (m. 1987) |
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| Traditional Chinese | 鄭經翰 | ||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 郑经翰 | ||||||
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Zhèng Jīnghàn |
Albert J. Cheng was born in Hong Kong on 3 July 1946, a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Engineers, past Chairman and present Director of the Aircraft Division.
Mr. Cheng landed in Canada in 1969 to work initially as an aircraft engineer. He became a Canadian citizen four years later.
A founding member and former director of the Vancouver Chinese Cultural Centre, Mr. Cheng was seconded from the former Canadian Pacific Air to coordinate the fund-raising initiative to build the Chinese Cultural Centre, which stands as the largest Chinese community amenity in North America.
Mr. Cheng is the founder and founding president of the Chinese Canadian Association in Hong Kong, which later established the Canadian International School of Hong Kong. The school, which offers the Canadian curriculum, opened its door to 81 students in 1991, educating more than 1,800 students of over 40 nationalities from Pre-reception to Grade 12. It has now been expanded into Mainland China. The Canadian International School of Beijing was founded in 2005 and has students from over 70 countries.
After Commercial Radio had dismissed him under political pressure, he gave up his Canadian citizenship in 2004 in order to comply with local election requirements for direct elections to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. Despite his absence from Canada, Mr. Cheng has doubled up for the past 20 years as a commentator for overseas Chinese voice (AM 1470 CJVB /AM 1320 CHMB), a multicultural radio station in Vancouver. His commentaries are syndicated across overseas Chinese-speaking communities in North America and Australia.
In 1986, he launched Capital Communications Corporation to publish the Chinese editions of international titles, such as the Capital, Playboy and Forbes magazines, Chinese edition. The company was merged with Paramount Publishing Group in 1991 (a public listed company) to become the largest publishing and printing house in the region.
His latest business interest is another publicly-listed company in Hong Kong, Digital Domain, which is behind the stunning visual effects of some 250 motion pictures, including blockbusters such as Titanic, the Transformer series, the Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Iron Man 3 and Furious 7. It specializes in producing virtual reality (VR) movie sets. Its innovative products are also adopted in computer games, city planning and interior design which employed a few hundreds of employees in Vancouver.
Mr. Cheng was appointed as consultant for a wide spectrum of key institutions in Hong Kong, including the Land Development Council, Mass Transit Railway Corporation, Hong Kong Jockey Club, Trade Development Council, PCCW, Futures and Security Commission and Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
He was a member of the Securities & Futures Commission's Public Shareholders Group. Mr. Cheng also led the Hong Kong Expo' 97 Initiative Committee in 1988.
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