About Chan Nai-keong
Lived 1931 – 2003 (aged 71). Chan Nai-keong was a businessperson.
Kenneth "Nicky" Chan Nai-keong, CBE, JP (; 17 November 1931 – 9 May 2003) was a Hong Kong engineer and government official. He was the first Chinese person to become Secretary for Lands and Works from 1983 to 1986.
Biography With a family root in Zhongshan, Guangdong, Chan was born in 1931. He was educated at Loughborough College and became a student engineer at the Public Works Department of the Hong Kong government. His first task was road-widening work in Wong Nai Chung Road outside the Hong Kong Jockey Club in Happy Valley. One of this major projects was the construction of the Connaught Road pedestrian underpass to the Star Ferry Terminal in Central.
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Who was Chan Nai-keong?
Hong Kong engineer and government official
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Chan Nai-keong was born on 17 November 1931.
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Chan Nai-keong died on 9 May 2003.
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Chan Nai-keong was a businessperson.
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