Melissa Kaye Pang Reappointed Chair of Family Council with New Members for 2025 Term

Appointments to Family Council

The Government announced today (March 21) the reappointment of Ms Melissa Kaye Pang as the Chairperson of the Family Council, as well as the reappointment of 10 incumbent non-official members and the appointment of five new non-official members to the Council for a term of two years with effect from April 1, 2025.

The Secretary for Home and Youth Affairs, Miss Alice Mak, welcomed the appointments and reappointments. She said, "The Government will continue to support the work of the Council and would like to thank theoutgoing members for their contributions and dedication to the work of the Council during their term of service."

The membership list of the Council for the new term is as follows:

Chairperson

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Ms Melissa Kaye Pang

Ex-officio members

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Dr Donald Li Kwok-tung, Chairperson of the Elderly Commission

Dr Eliza Chan Ching-har, Chairperson of the Women's Commission

Mr Kenneth Leung Yuk-wai, Vice-Chairperson of the Youth Development Commission

Non-official members (reappointments)

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Dr Gigi Hsin Pang Che-kwan

Mr Lam Sum-lim

Ms Lau Oi-sze

Mr Law Fai

Mr Perry Lou Yiu-tong

Mr Warren Luk Hua

Mr Solomon Wong Bing-kin

Miss Koby Wong Lok-yin

Mr Yau Siu-hung

Mr Jeremy Young Chit-on

Non-official members (new appointments)

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Ms Kathy Chung Lai-kam

Mr Ho Ting-hong

Mr Victor Kwok Hoi-kit

Mrs Helena Pong Tung Ching-yee

Dr Loletta So Kit-ying

Official members

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Secretary for Home and Youth Affairs or her representative

Secretary for Labour and Welfare or his representative

Secretary for Education or her representative

Since its establishment in 2007, the Council hasserved as a cross-sector and cross-bureau platform for advising the Government on family-related policies and promoting a culture of loving families as well as the family core values of "Love and Care", "Respect and Responsibility" and "Communication and Harmony" in the community.

CSTB highly concerned about errors found in tickets of Coldplay: Music of The Spheres World Tour printed by Cityline

​The Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau (CSTB) today (March 22) is highly concerned about the errors in the printing of some of the tickets for Coldplay: Music of The Spheres World Tour by Cityline.

Upon learning the situation, the CSTB requested Cityline to handle it swiftly and properly, to ensure that the experience of ticket holders would not be affected.

The CSTB learnt that Cityline has provided several remedial measures, including adding ticket exchange locations in Hong Kong and the Mainland, extending the ticket exchange time period until the performance commences, and refunding the handling fees to affected ticket holders, so as to respond to the requests by those affected.