Alvin Yeung
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The Honourable Alvin Yeung Ngok-kiu |
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| 楊岳橋 | |
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| Leader of the Civic Party | |
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Assumed office 1 October 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Alan Leong |
| Member of the Legislative Council | |
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Assumed office 29 February 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Ronny Tong |
| Constituency | New Territories East |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
5 June 1981 Hong Kong |
| Nationality |
Canadian (until 2012) Hong Kong |
| Political party | Civic Party |
| Alma mater |
University of Western Ontario (B.A.) Peking University (LL.M.) University of Bristol (M.A.) |
| Occupation | Barrister Politician |
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| Traditional Chinese | 楊岳橋 | ||||||||
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| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Yèuhng Ngohk kìuh |
| Jyutping | Joeng4 Ngok6 kiu4 |
Alvin Yeung Ngok-kiu (Chinese: 楊岳橋, born 5 June 1981) is a barrister and politician in Hong Kong. He is the current Leader of the Civic Party and member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, representing New Territories East after winning the 2016 by-election.
Yeung was born in Yuen Long, Hong Kong in 1981 as the only child to a restaurant owner and a jewellery dealer. Yeung and his parents emigrated to Canada in the early 1990s after the 1989 Tiananmen massacre. Yeung graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a degree in political science and obtained a master of laws in constitutional and administrative laws from the Peking University around 2003.
Inspired by the large-scale 2003 July 1 march, Yeung joined a group called “7.1 People Pile". He campaigned for Alan Leong Kah-kit, a barrister-turned-politician, in the 2004 Legislative Council election. In the following year, he joined the master of arts in legal studies program at the University of Bristol and became a certified barrister in 2008.
He joined the Civic Party in 2011 and ran in the 2011 District Council election in Tai Po Market but was defeated. He later elected to the Election Committee through the legal subsector in the Hong Kong Election Committee Subsector election, 2011. In 2012 Legislative Council election, he partnered with Ronny Tong Ka-wah to run in the New Territories East and successfully got Tong re-elected. He gave up his Canadian citizenship for the candidacy in the election.
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