No members of Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s cabinet on list of award recipients, with just four prominent figures receiving the Grand Bauhinia Medal
The number of people on the government’s official honours list this year for their contributions to Hong Kong has dropped to a 10-year low, with fewer political figures and more professionals.
Leung awarded 337 medals in 2013 after completing his first year in office.
No one from Lam’s cabinet is on the list, and only two are lawmakers: Ann Chiang Lai-wan and Ben Chan Han-pan of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong, the city’s largest pro-establishment political party, who get silver and bronze bauhinia stars respectively. No pan-democrats are on the list.
A number of professionals from different sectors have also won accolades.
Microbiologist Professor Yuen Kwok-yung and two judges – David Edmond Neuberger and Michael Lunn – are among 10 marked for the Gold Bauhinia Star.
