Winston Chu
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Winston Chu Ka-sun ({{lang|zh|徐嘉慎}}; born 1940) is a Hong Kong lawyer and activist.
Early years and education
Chu was born in Hong Kong and received his secondary school education at Wah Yan College. Afterwards, he pursued further studies in the United Kingdom.{{cite news|url=https://www1.hkej.com/features/article?q=%23%E6%A0%A1%E9%95%B7%E7%B3%BB%E5%88%97%23&suid=1675928447|title=香港華仁書院 舊生校長商界取經|newspaper=Hong Kong Economic Journal|date=20 April 2015|access-date=19 April 2020}} Although he initially aspired to a career as a nuclear physicist, but instead ended up studying law.{{cite news|url=https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1335950/poet-heart-who-harbours-love-his-city|first=Annemarie|last=Evans|title=A poet at heart who harbours a love for his city|work=South China Morning Post|date=20 October 2013|access-date=19 April 2020}} He graduated from University College London with a Bachelor of Laws degree and became a solicitor. Chu was also an honorary law lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong. He served on the Town Planning Board{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/specials/hongkong/archive/950619rising-storm-on.html|first=Edward A.|last=Gargan |title=Rising Storm on Hong Kong's Vanishing Harbor |date=19 June 1995 |newspaper=The New York Times |accessdate=20 January 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090423171818/http://www.nytimes.com/specials/hongkong/archive/950619rising-storm-on.html |archivedate=23 April 2009 }} from 1988 to 1996.
Society for Protection of the Harbour
In 1994, Winston Chu founded the Society for Protection of the Harbour to preserve Victoria Harbour. From that time onwards, he worked together with his partner Christine Loh to protect the harbour.{{cite news|url=http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=11&art_id=24977&sid=9273648&con_type=1|title=Courts protect our imperiled waterway - at least for the time being|date=14 August 2006|newspaper=The Standard|accessdate=20 January 2010|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629145613/https://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=11&art_id=24977&sid=9273648&con_type=1|archive-date=29 June 2011|url-status=dead}} On 11 October 2003, Winston Chu announced his resignation as Chairperson of SPH due to personal threats to his family and was replaced by Loh.{{Cite news|url=http://www.mondaq.com/Article/24203|first=Kevin|last=Owen|first2=Peter|last2=Borg|title=Hong Kong: Environmental Law Sharpens its Teeth|date=3 February 2004|publisher=Mondaq|accessdate=20 January 2010}}
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