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Pansy Yu Fong Wong (Chinese: 黃徐毓芳; Cantonese Yale: Wòhng Chèuih Yūk-fōng; born 1955) is a New Zealand former politician.
Wong was a National Party Member of Parliament in the New Zealand House of Representatives from 1996 to 2011. She was New Zealand's first MP and first Cabinet minister of Asian ethnicity and served as Minister for Ethnic Affairs and Minister of Women's Affairs in the Fifth National Government. Wong resigned from Parliament in January 2011 after allegations of misusing parliamentary travel allowances.
Wong was born in Shanghai and raised in a one-room Hong Kong apartment by her mother, Pui Ching Chui, with her two brothers after her parents chose to leave Maoist China. Her father, Hung Shun Tsui, a seaman, was away most of the time for work. In Hong Kong, Wong took the English name Pansy and attended the Queen Elizabeth School.
The family emigrated to Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1974, when Wong was aged 19. While working in her parents' fish and chip shop, she studied commerce at University of Canterbury and graduated with a Master of Commerce.
She is married to Malaysian-born businessman Sammy Teck Seng Wong, whom she met at university. Sammy Wong was a justice of the peace from 1998 until his retirement in 2020 and had diverse business interests, including shareholder interests in the education, education, and transport industries.
Wong speaks English, Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese.
Wong's early career was in business and accounting, including a period as chief financial controller at Smiths City. Eventually she turned to governance and worked as a professional director with several government appointments.
In 1989, she was chair of the New Zealand Society of Accountants (Canterbury branch). The same year, she contested the Canterbury Regional Council, in the five-member Fitzgerald constituency, on the Christchurch Action team ticket. Of the ten Christchurch Action regional council candidates that year, Wong was the only one to be elected. During her seven years as a councillor, she chaired the finance committee and became known as the "$6 million woman" for overseeing budget cuts of that amount.
Pansy Wong
Pansy Yu Fong Wong (Chinese: 黃徐毓芳; Cantonese Yale: Wòhng Chèuih Yūk-fōng; born 1955) is a New Zealand former politician.
Wong was a National Party Member of Parliament in the New Zealand House of Representatives from 1996 to 2011. She was New Zealand's first MP and first Cabinet minister of Asian ethnicity and served as Minister for Ethnic Affairs and Minister of Women's Affairs in the Fifth National Government. Wong resigned from Parliament in January 2011 after allegations of misusing parliamentary travel allowances.
Wong was born in Shanghai and raised in a one-room Hong Kong apartment by her mother, Pui Ching Chui, with her two brothers after her parents chose to leave Maoist China. Her father, Hung Shun Tsui, a seaman, was away most of the time for work. In Hong Kong, Wong took the English name Pansy and attended the Queen Elizabeth School.
The family emigrated to Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1974, when Wong was aged 19. While working in her parents' fish and chip shop, she studied commerce at University of Canterbury and graduated with a Master of Commerce.
She is married to Malaysian-born businessman Sammy Teck Seng Wong, whom she met at university. Sammy Wong was a justice of the peace from 1998 until his retirement in 2020 and had diverse business interests, including shareholder interests in the education, education, and transport industries.
Wong speaks English, Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese.
Wong's early career was in business and accounting, including a period as chief financial controller at Smiths City. Eventually she turned to governance and worked as a professional director with several government appointments.
In 1989, she was chair of the New Zealand Society of Accountants (Canterbury branch). The same year, she contested the Canterbury Regional Council, in the five-member Fitzgerald constituency, on the Christchurch Action team ticket. Of the ten Christchurch Action regional council candidates that year, Wong was the only one to be elected. During her seven years as a councillor, she chaired the finance committee and became known as the "$6 million woman" for overseeing budget cuts of that amount.
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