Claudia Mo
Claudia Mo Man-ching | |
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毛孟靜 | |
.jpg) Claudia Mo addresses 1 July marchers in 2008 | |
| Member of the Legislative Council | |
| Assumed office 1 October 2012 | |
| Preceded by | Frederick Fung |
| Constituency | Kowloon West |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 January 1957 Hong Kong |
| Nationality | Chinese (Hong Kong) |
| Political party | Civic Party |
| Spouse | Philip Bowring |
| Children | two sons |
| Alma mater | Carleton University |
| Occupation | Legislative councillor Journalist Columnist Television presenter |
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Template:Chinesename Claudia Bowring (born Mo Man-ching on 18 January 1957), known professionally as Claudia Mo, is a Hong Kong journalist and politician. She is a member of Hong Kong Legislative Council, representing the Kowloon West geographical constituency.
She is a founding member of the Civic Party, which she represented, unsuccessfully, in the Kowloon West geographical constituency in the 2008 Legislative Council election.[1] But in 2012, she won one of the constituency's five available seats.
Mo is a former journalist, having worked at Agence France-Presse, The Standard and TVB.[2] She also hosted a number of RTHK TV and radio programmes, including "Media Watch" and "City Forum".[3][4]
Mo wrote a book called "We Want True Democracy" published in 2015, and has also authored English language learning books.[5][2]
Personal life and education
Mo was born in Hong Kong and has family roots in Ningbo, Zhejiang. Mo is married to journalist Philip Bowring, former editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review, and they have two sons.[6] She is also known as Claudia Bowring.
She attended high school in Toronto, and in 1979 graduated from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada with a Bachelor's degree in journalism with English studies. After graduating she worked at Agence France-Presse (AFP) translating French wires into Chinese. She was later promoted to chief Hong Kong correspondent for AFP, covering in this role the Tiananmen Square massacre, an event which she describes as a "watershed [...] that cemented my journalistic principles and political beliefs".[7]
Television career
- News at 6:30 – TVB, 1982–85
- Media Watch – RTHK, 1991–2008
- City Forum – RTHK, 1993–95
- All-Primary Schools Inter-school Quiz – RTHK, 1992–94
- We're All Parents – Cable Television
References
- ^ 2008 Legislative Council Election
- ^ a b Kwok, Ben (17 June 2015). "Ms. Mo speaks up in English for true democracy". Hong Kong Economic Journal.
- ^ Executive Committee of Civic Party Archived 2007-12-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Ms MO, Claudia Man Ching 毛孟靜". Chinese University. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
- ^ Heung, Charis (16 July 2015). "Would you spend HK$50,000 on a set of English learning books?". Hong Kong Economic Journal.
- ^ Chan, Yannie (13 March 2014). "Philip Bowring". HK Magazine.
- ^ Chan, Yannie (7 November 2013). "Claudia Mo". HK Magazine.
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