Wu, Anthony Ting Yuk 胡定旭

We note that the respective amounts of HK$860k and HK$430k were not disclosed in the table of directors' pay in the annual reports. Mr Wu, who still claims to be independent and has paid the money back, is now Chairman of the company and regards it as a "non-material issue".

We are asked to believe that the decision was only handed down at the end of Christmas Eve, not held back to minimize embarrassment to the defendants.

Whatever happened to the 6-year rule for Government appointments? Before becoming Chairman in 2003, Mr Ch'ien was an "independent" director since 1998, elected by Government as majority shareholder. Then there is Allan Zeman Chairing Ocean Park (now in an 11-year term), and Anthony Wu Chairing the Hospital Authority (now in a 9-year term, and having been on the board since 1999).

Political heavyweight Hospital Authority, HKGCC and Bauhinia Foundation Chairman Anthony Wu Ting Yuk and Ernst & Young (HK), the firm he chaired until 31-Dec-2005, top the list as the longest-outstanding disciplinary case of the HKICPA at 30-Nov-2011. Past or present E&Y partner Catherine Yen Kai Shun is involved in the same case, which has been running since 9-Dec-2009.

After Friday's appointments, effective 1-Dec-2010, all four directors of the tycoon-funded Bauhinia Foundation Research Centre Ltd are now members of the Hospital Authority, including the Chairman of both. Ironically, the Protector of the foundation, Charles Ho, is a cigarette tycoon.

We look into the Bauhinia Foundation, a tycoon-funded lobby group with an increasingly cosy relationship with Government, and the people behind it. BF refuses to disclose who funds it, or publish its accounts, claiming to be both private and a tax-exempt "trust of public character" at the same time. Who is making policy for HK - the Government, or a secretly-funded lobby group?