António Ng Kuok Cheong (; born September 26, 1957) is a politician who was a member in the
Macau Legislative Assembly
The Legislative Assembly of the Macau Special Administrative Region is the organ of the legislative branch of Macau. It is a 33-member body comprising 14 directly elected members, 12 indirectly elected members representing functional constit ...
, returned by direct election. He was the founding chairman of the pro-democratic political party
New Macau Association
The New Macau Association (AMN) is a major pro-democratic political party in the Chinese Special Administrative Region of Macau. The party was established in 1992 and the founding chairman was António Ng Kuok Cheong, who departed from the the ...
. He is also the leader of the political pressure group
Union for Democracy Development. Ng has been a major figure in the Macau democracy movement and is one of the three pro-democratic legislators in the Assembly.
After his graduation from
Yuet Wah College
Yuet Wah College (; ; abbr: YWC), often referred to as Yuet Wah, is a Macau all-boys Catholic Church, Catholic secondary school in São Lázaro (St. Lazarus Parish), Macau.[Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a public university, public research university in Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong.
Established in 1963 as a federation of three university college, collegesChung Chi College, New Asia Coll ...]
. Once an employee in a Chinese bank in the early 1990s, Ng lost the job due to political pressure from Beijing.
Election results
See also
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Politics of Macau
Politics of Macau is a framework of a politically constrained multi-party presidential system, dominated by the China, People's Republic of China. It includes the Legislative Assembly of Macau, legislature, the Judiciary of Macau, judiciary, th ...
References
External links
Antonio Ng's blog (in Chinese)
Members of the Legislative Assembly of Macau
Cantonese people
People from Nanhai District
1957 births
Living people
New Macau Association politicians
Politicians from Foshan
Yuet Wah College alumni
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