Philip Wong

Dr Philip Wong Yu-hong GBS
黃宜弘
Member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
In office 9 October 1991 – 30 June 1997
Preceded by	New constituency
Succeeded by	Replaced by Provisional Legislative Council
Constituency	Commercial (Second)
In office 21 December 1996 – 30 June 1998 (Provisional Legislative Council)
In office 1 July 1998 – 30 September 2012
Preceded by	New parliament
Succeeded by	Martin Liao
Constituency	Commercial (Second)
Personal details
Born	23 December 1938 Quanzhou, Fujian, China
Political party	New Hong Kong Alliance (1990s)
Spouse(s)	Josephine Tan (divorced) Anita Maria Leung Fung-yee
Children	Ian Joseph Wong Kirk Landon Wong Mark Nathan Wong
Alma mater	University of California (M.Sc.) Southland University (J.D.) California Coast University (Ph.D.)
Occupation	Businessman
Religion	Christianity

Philip Wong Yu-hong, GBS (Chinese: 黃宜弘; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: N̂g Gî-hông; born 23 December 1938, Quanzhou, Fujian, China). He is a legislator in Hong Kong as a member of the legislative council (Functional constituencies, Commercial (Second) and a representative of the National People's Congress.

Criticism

Questionable academic credentials

On the Legislative council website, Wong is listed to have a master's degree in engineering from the California Coast University, and a Juris Doctor from Southland University.

Share market analyst David Webb requested an investigation be launched to check for his possible fake academic credentials.

California Coast University's bulletin claimed that it "does not require formal, on-campus residence or classroom attendance". It is an online-only school. However, California Coast University is accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council. DETC specializes in the accreditation of online-only institutions and is a recognized accrediting body of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. Wong did receive the engineering degree from California Coast University on 27 August 1984.

Southland University, however, is now defunct, and was considered to be a "diploma mill", offering degrees with substandard or no academic studies.^[1]

Middle finger incident

During the July 2003 Article 23 march, Wong was filmed to be giving the democracy demonstrators the middle finger gesture.^[1] Albert Cheng had once asked in October 2004 at a meeting whether his middle finger gesture has been referred to a committee for consideration. Jasper Tsang, a colleague of Wong, replied that Wong had already apologized the previous day.^[2]

References

1. The Standard article "Legislator escapes probes" Retrieved on 24 December 2007.
2. LegCo minutes re middle finger controversy

External links

• Legco Philip Wong biodata