Peter Shiu Ka-fai (, born 22 April 1970) is the current Chairman of the

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and a member of the

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. He is also a former member of

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, for

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on Hong Kong Island. He graduated from the

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in New Zealand. He is a Liberal Party member and has been a member of the executive committee since 2009. He is the chairperson of the Liberal Party's Ban Gay Marriage Hong Kong and has suggested that children reading books about homosexuality might confuse them or distort how they think about families. In December 2014, he was elected vice-chairman of the party with

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and Felix Chung Kwok-pan as the party Leader and chairman respectively. In the

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, Shiu won a seat in the Wholesale and Retail

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, keeping the seat in Liberal hands, with 65 percent of the vote. He was appointed to the Buildings Appeal Tribunal Panel,

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and Observers and Business Facilitation Advisory Committee. He has been a member of the

since the 2007 District Council elections through the

constituency. In the 2011 Election Committee elections, he was elected to the

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through Hong Kong and Kowloon District Council subsector. In March 2021, Shiu claimed that RTHK was too biased against the

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, and asked if the government intended to "fix" the station. He is a director of the Master Proofer Corporation. In August 2023, he called on the Hong Kong justice department to continue to try to ban the song

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, after a judge ruled against a proposed ban by the government. In November 2023, he was part of a group of lawmakers who said that the 2023 Gay Games may infringe on the national security law.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Shiu, Peter Ka-fai 1970 births Living people University of Auckland alumni District councillors of Eastern District Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2012–2017 Liberal Party (Hong Kong) politicians HK LegCo Members 2016–2021 HK LegCo Members 2022–2025

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