Profile of Hong Kong gov't official: Suen Ming-yeung    

    HONG KONG, June 23 (Xinhua) -- Suen Ming-yeung was appointed Saturday by China's Central People's Government as Secretary for Education of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government, on the nomination of HKSAR Chief Executive Donald Tsang.

    The following is Suen's brief biography:

    Aged 63, Suen joined the Government in 1966 as an Administrative Officer and was promoted to the rank of Director of Bureau in January 1991. During the early years of his career, he served in the former New Territories Administration, Resettlement Department and Environment Branch.

    Suen was Deputy Secretary for Transport in September 1981; Director of City Services in the Urban Services Department in November 1983 and Deputy Director of the Regional Services Department in April 1985. Suen became Director of Regional Services in June 1986 and Regional Secretary (New Territories) of the City and New Territories Administration in December 1987.

    Suen was appointed Secretary for Constitutional Affairs in March 1989 and Secretary for Home Affairs in November 1991. Between March and early July in 1997, he was on temporary secondment to the Chief Executive's Office as the Secretary for Policy Co-ordination. He resumed his post as Secretary for Home Affairs on July 8, 1997 and took up the appointment as Secretary for Constitutional Affairs on August 4, 1997. Suen has been Secretary for Housing, Planning and Lands since July 2002.

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