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  Regina Ip - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ip, one of the highest-ranking women in the Hong Kong Government, said in a statement she deeply regretted that the legislative work to protect national security had not been completed as scheduled.
Ip has strongly defended the government's position in denying the rights of abode of the children of Hong Kong people born in mainland China since the 1997 handover.
Regina Ip is a single mother after her husband died.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Regina_Ip   (783 words)

  
 Regina Ip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Regina Ip Regina Ip Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee (葉劉淑儀) is a formerly prominent government official of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).
Educated in the University of Hong Kong, Ip joined the government in 1975 and started as an administrative officer.
Ip has strongly defended the government's position in keeping out illegal immigrants from mainland China since the 1997 handover.
bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/r/re/regina_ip.html   (808 words)

  
 Hong Kong Government Intentionally Conceals Content of Article 23 of the Basic Law; Newly Published Draft Shocks Legal ...
The media thought that Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee would follow convention and hold a press conference immediately after the meeting; however, she held the press conference on the 13th and answered questions from news reporters.
Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee further pointed out that even if a Hong Kong organisation does not truly commit a crime, it is true that it can still be banned.
Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee answered that the definition of "Subordinate" is not expanded, and that the government only took reference from previous policies regarding social organisations.
www.clearharmony.net /articles/200302/10423p.html   (950 words)

  
 The Standard - China's Business Newspaper
Lau, who served as secretary for security from 1998 to 2003, said whether or not she would stand in the legislative elections in 2008 would depend on the circumstances then.
Ip spent the last three years studying at Stanford University in the United States after her shock departure from the government in 2003 following a massive July 1 demonstration against the proposed anti-subversion law.
Ip also said she made the right choice in sending her daughter to the US for studies in 2002.
www.thestandard.com.hk /news_detail.asp?pp_cat=11&art_id=27029&sid=9824279&con_type=1&d_str=20060911   (427 words)

  
 Doreen's Article - JMSC
Hong Kong's secretary for security, Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee, revealed in September her government's proposals for laws punishing crimes against the state, including sedition, treason, and theft of state secrets as well as subversion.
Ip is responsible for internal security, drug control, and immigration—in general, for law and order.
Ip argues that every nation has the right to protect itself against spying and subversion and that the Hong Kong laws to be replaced don't adequately protect the PRC.
jmsc.hku.hk /works/one.htm   (2966 words)

  
 Falun Dafa Clearwisdom.net
Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee further pointed out that even if a Hong Kong organization does not truly commit a crime, it is true that it can still be banned.
Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee answered that the definition of "Subordinate" is not expanded, and that the government only took reference from previous policies regarding social organizations.
is most concerned about, news reporters asked Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee whether there is an item to clear the people's concerns on this issue, she said that the media was most concerned with whether the public has the right to make "People's Appeal and Protests" and we have sufficient reason to not discuss this issue.
clearwisdom.net /emh/articles/2003/2/19/32332p.html   (998 words)

  
 Regina Ip a mentor to her fellow HK students at Stanford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee received star treatment from Hong Kong students at Stanford University and became a mentor to many of her fellow pupils, according to one of the former security chief's friends.
Mrs Ip, who returned to Stanford as a graduate student in 2003 and wrote her thesis on Hong Kong's democratic development, also took part in lively political debate with her fellow students.
In 1986 Mrs Ip, accompanied by the husband she married in 1981, went to Stanford to study for an MBA under the Sloan Programme in the graduate school of business.
www-sccm.stanford.edu /~choi/SCMP/scmp.htm   (422 words)

  
 Savantas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Mrs Ip worked for the Hong Kong Government for 28 years and had served in a wide range of areas including democratization of local government, international trade and industry and security.
She was the first woman to be appointed the head of a disciplined service (Immigration Department) (1996-98) and as Secretary for Security of Hong Kong (1998-2003).
Having spent three years in Stanford, Mrs Ip returned to Hong Kong in June 2006 with the goal of building a stronger, better, happier and more progressive society.
www.savantas.org /profile.asp   (104 words)

  
 Migration News
Since 1998, children five and over are theoretically entitled to acquire an urban residence permit if at least one of their parents has one, eliminating extra school fees, but cities including Beijing have not done so.
Ip said that, since immigration officials were trying to deport the children, it did not make sense to school them.
Ip's critics assert that education is a basic right that the SAR provides to prisoners and provided to the children of Vietnamese refugees lived in camps in Hong Kong.
migration.ucdavis.edu /MN/comments.php?id=2543_0_3_0   (663 words)

  
 Regina Ip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Our Featured Regina Ip article on Regina Ip Category: Regina Ip Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee (Traditional Chinese: 葉劉淑儀) is a formerly prominent government official of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).
A former secretary for security, Regina Ip, says she won't rule out running for a Legco seat, although she has no immdiate plans to do so.
The Chairwoman of the Savantas Policy Institute, Regina Ip, says the government should consider splitting the work of certain policy bureaux, including the one dealing with the environment and transport.
insurance.rightlikeextra.info /Regina_Ip   (1262 words)

  
 Regina Ip
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Regina Ip Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee (葉劉淑儀) is formerly a prominent government official of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).
But she has dismissed all that, saying: "If I can't defend even my hair, how can I defend Hong Kong?"
www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/r/re/regina_ip.html   (835 words)

  
 Article 23   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
A booklet is to be issued correcting mistakes made in the classification of submissions received on the anti-subversion proposals, the security chief said yesterday, as she issued her second public apology in a week.
Mrs Ip called on people who feel their views were not accurately presented to write to the security bureau by February 20.
Mrs Ip sought to allay fears that librarians could still be prosecuted for displaying or distributing seditious publications despite the dropping of a proposal to ban possession of seditious materials.
daga.dhs.org /daga/readingroom/newsclips/2003/article23/30207scmp1.htm   (442 words)

  
 Hong Kong & China
Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee will put her otherwise smooth 28-year government career behind her as she steps down as secretary for security at the end of today.
Regina Ip's legacy is almost certain to be marked largely by the Article 23 controversy, but Secretary for Security Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee yesterday announced the end of a vast and diverse 28-year-old career in public service in Hong Kong.
Pressure mounted yesterday for security chief Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee to be removed from handling Article 23 legislation, with a fellow cabinet member saying she would face great difficulties if she remained associated with the bill.
www.hkchcc.org /hongkong-china04.htm   (13522 words)

  
 AsiaMedia :: HONG KONG: 'Twin goddesses of democracy' to go head-to-head on TV
Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee, former hardline security chief, is expected to host a political talk show on local station ATV, and one of her first guests is likely to be the popular one-time deputy leader Anson Chan Fang On-sang.
Her time in office was marked by her shepherding of a far-reaching anti-subversion bill so unpopular that it brought half a million people on the streets in protest in 2003.
The TV show is one of many avenues Ms Ip is said to be exploring to relaunch a political career that many believe could lead to her challenging political leader Donald Tsang Yam-kuen for the city’s top job next year.
www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=48647   (471 words)

  
 Simon World: The real news
When the poll closed, the crocodile had 36 per cent of the votes, 11 per cent more than Hong Kong's hospital workers, who won second place with 25 per cent of the votes for their heroics during the Sars outbreak.
The highest placed individual human was harbour campaigner Winston Chu Ka-sun, who came third with 13 per cent, followed by former secretary for security Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee with 9 per cent.
Any poll that places Regina Ip at 9% in the popularity stakes automatically risks its credibility, but regardless, that darn croc is the best thing to happen to HK in a long time.
simonworld.mu.nu /archives/009635.html   (278 words)

  
 Security chief reveals inner thoughts on cults
Security chief Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee yesterday listed what she said were the characteristics of a cult in her most detailed speech on such groups' activities.
She quoted American academic Margaret Singer on the nine general characteristics of a cult, which included requiring total commitment from followers to reach "enlightenment" and a complete change of lifestyle.
Mrs Ip rejected suggestions the Government contradicted itself by monitoring and criticising the doctrines of Falun Gong while studying a French cult law that targets actions rather than beliefs.
www.rickross.com /reference/fa_lun_gong/falun231.html   (381 words)

  
 [Imc-asia] Reports on anti-globalisation protest in Hong Kong
Meanwhile, Secretary for Security Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee said immigration officers had been justified in using force to deport "unco-operative" overseas anti-globalisation protesters on Saturday.
They were wrapped in blankets and put on a flight to Taipei on Saturday, in what Secretary for Security Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee said was use of ``minimal force''.
Mrs Ip said minimum force would be used against anyone refused entry if they refused to co-operate.
archives.lists.indymedia.org /imc-asia/2001-October/000067.html   (1100 words)

  
 Security chief admits to most unwanted list - News about religious cults and sects
Security chief Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee admitted for the first time yesterday that the Immigration Department did operate an undesirables fllist.
Mrs Ip said Hong Kong's fllist was drawn up by the head of immigration and was based on various considerations, including an individual's reason for trying to enter, what is going on in Hong Kong at the time and the person's background.
She reiterated that the decisions to bar people were made according to individual considerations and that they were not politically motivated.
www.apologeticsindex.org /news1/an010523-03.html   (503 words)

  
 Why China will lose with Article 23's passage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Hong Kong’s Secretary for Security, Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee, has said the central government has expressed its satisfaction with the language of the bill.
Her claim that central authorities have specifically reviewed the language on certificates suggests that the central government is considering the use of proclamations and certificates to ban groups that are not currently banned as threats to national security.
Mrs Ip has argued that establishing the system called for in the national security bill would increase transparency on the mainland and that the Hong Kong government would “only consider taking action [against groups] if something is done with full transparency in accordance with the law of the mainland, rather than stealthily”.
www.duihua.org /outreach/test_speech_article/Articles/scmp20030703.htm   (1252 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Secretary for Security Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee blamed the increasing popularity of rave parties and the trend of youngsters attending such parties across the border.
It was easier to obtain drugs such as ketamine on the mainland and prices were lower, she said.
Mrs Ip said the Government would recommend to judges that tougher sentencing be adopted for drug offences.
www.lowinglok.org.hk /eng/quotquot/detail.asp?id=63   (350 words)

  
 Update #38: Cheung Chuk Shan College alumni overseas link
Secretary for Security Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee said yesterday that Agnes - ruled by the Court of Final Appeal to have no right of abode - would be allowed to stay on humanitarian grounds.
Mrs Ip said she had discussed the 14-year-old's case with Director of Immigration Ambrose Li Siu-kwong, and believed it could receive ``special consideration''.
Mrs Ip denied the decision was being made under pressure from media reports of overwhelming support for the girl from classmates, teachers, family and legislators.
www.100megsfree2.com /ccsc/upd38.htm   (902 words)

  
 Hong Kong
Although Secretary for Security Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee said there was no guarantee that the abode seekers would be allowed to return after a certain period of time, the lawyers from Pam Baker and Co. warned that a new wave of court cases could be launched by abode seekers.
Secretary for Security Regina Ip urged adopted mainland children under 18 to leave the territory so their cases might be processed within a year through an express queue set up by mainland authorities.
Hundreds (or more than 1,000) of abode seekers marched to reiterate their determination to stay in the territory despite a court ruling ordering them to leave; about 50 planned to shave their heads as a sign of protest.
www.smc.org.ph /amnews/amn020131/HongKong020131.htm   (1220 words)

  
 Hong Kong: Seven Organizations Protest the SAR Government for Controlling Spaces for Public Demonstration and ...
The Secretary for Security, Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee only considered her role as a protector of those she reports to.
He sternly chastised the Hong Kong government saying that he hoped that police would stop suppressing demonstration activities and Secretary for Security, Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee would not cover up for the police.
He said, "For Tung Chee-hwa to oppose citizens is equivalent to drawing fire against himself." They stated they would make an appointment to meet the section chief of the police department, Tseng Yinpei, and Secretary for Security, Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee to express their dissatisfaction.
www.clearharmony.net /articles/200208/6490p.html   (839 words)

  
 Falun Gong : Security chief denies turning visitors away on grounds of religion - News about religious cults and sects
Falun Dafa, one of the organisations that held demonstrations during the forum, reported that 102 Falun Gong practitioners from overseas had been barred from entering the SAR.
However, Mrs Ip told a meeting of consuls general this week that ``refusal of entry...
Mrs Ip said the Director of Immigration had ``wide discretion'' over whether to permit entry of those who did not have right of abode.
www.apologeticsindex.org /news1/an010518-06.html   (370 words)

  
 局長葉劉淑儀民望 - Popularity of Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee
Rating of Secretary for Security Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee (conducted on 2-4/7/2003; released on 15/7/2003; on-line from 15/7/2003)
Hypothetical voting on the reappointment of Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee as the Secretary for Security (conducted on 3-6/6/2003; released on 17/6/2003; on-line from 17/6/2003)
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hkupop.hku.hk /english/popexpress/poresign/popregina   (249 words)

  
 Civil Service Newsletter Issue 62
She was the first woman to hold the number two post in the Government's hierarchy.
Others followed: Mrs Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee became Secretary for Security (1998 — 2003), Miss Elsie Leung Oi-si has the post of Secretary for Justice, and Dr Sarah Liao Sau-tung is Secretary for Environment, Transport and Works.
Also, the number of women holding directorate posts in the civil service has more than doubled in the last decade: from 138 in 1994 to more than 300 at the end of 2004, representing about 26% of the entire directorate.
www.csb.gov.hk /hkgcsb/csn/csn62/62e/feat_4a.html   (416 words)

  
 Article 23   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Security chief Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee was greeted with both fierce criticism and words of support yesterday when she faced the public on a radio programme.
She maintained her composure as one caller said her remarks on the security laws were ''so deceitful'' that it reminded her of Beijing's account of the Tiananmen pro-democracy crackdown in 1989.
As a member of the pro-Beijing Federation of Trade Unions, he claimed he had been forced to attend the 40,000-strong rally in support of the national security law in December.
daga.dhs.org /daga/readingroom/newsclips/2003/article23/30215scmp3.htm   (150 words)

  
 CESNUR - Falun Gong Updates, April 27, 2001
Mr Tung is understood to feel that the controversial provision in the French law enabling the government to ban a local organisation if it had been branded an evil cult overseas could be used in Hong Kong against the Falun Gong, declared an evil cult in the mainland and banned by Beijing.
Secretary for Justice Elsie Leung Oi-sie suggested in a study report to Secretary for Security Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee that the proposed French law seemed the most appropriate means to outlaw the sect here.
Under the proposed legislation, the French government would have 10 standards against which an evil cult could be defined and banned if there was sufficient evidence to prove it had committed ``criminal offences''.
www.cesnur.org /2001/falun_april07.htm   (453 words)

  
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