Pansy WONG, Member of Parliament
Mansfield LAM left behind
his Hong Kong business of selling machinery to China
for lifestyle reasons. He, wife Joyce and their two
children arrived in Auckland in 1998 and they have relished
becoming involved in activities not readily accessible
in Hong Kong, such as sports and getting out into nature.
Mansfield has run the Department of Conservation's Chinese
CITES hotline from 2001 to 2002., fulfilling an obligation
he feels to help keep New Zealand beautiful. He obtained
the Bachelor of Business degree at University of Auckland
in 2003.
Stella Sze Man CHAN is a lawyer and a partner of Auckland law firm Forest Harrison. She has practised law for more than 16 years, working initially as a legal executive while completing her law degree part-time at the University of Auckland. Stella was admitted as a solicitor and barrister of the High Court of New Zealand in 1999. She had given a number of talks on property and commercial law to the Chinese community here and to potential immigrants in Hong Kong. Stella had also written a series of articles for a Chinese newspaper on property law. Stella was the chairperson of CCET from 2004 to 2006. She is also an executive committee member of the Hong Kong New Zealand Business Association. Stella is married to fellow trustee Raymond Chan. They have two children.
Kenneth Wai Yin TSE He is usually known as Ken to volunteers and trustees. Kenneth Tse moved to Auckland, New Zealand in 1999. Ken and his wife, both dentists in Hong Kong before migration, moved to NZ to search for a higher quality of life. He studied horticulture in Manukau Institute of Technology in 2000-01. He now works in Manukau City Council Parks Department as a Park Ranger. Ken joined the CCET in 2002 as a volunteer. He took part in a number of CCET activities since then. He was the coordinator of the Revegetation Group from 2003. Ken wishes to spread conservation awareness messages to local Chinese community through the work of CCET. He was elected chairman of the trust for the term of 2006-08 in April 2006.
Raymond Chuen Ming CHAN
is a chartered accountant in public practice. He is
a fellow of the ACCA U. K. and worked for Ernst &
Young in Hong Kong before moving to New Zealand in 1987.
Raymond is currently a principal of Auckland accounting
firm Gibson & Associates Limited. He is a member
of the Lions Club of Auckland Chinese and was Club treasurer
for two years. He has assisted the Inland Revenue Department
in presenting seminars on New Zealand income tax to
the Chinese community.
Estella Hin Ling LEE has
become a Chinese household name - partly through her
regular radio broadcasts and newspaper columns and partly
through the enormous amount of community work she undertakes.
Estella has been instrumental in helping to bring the
conservation message to Auckland's Chinese community.
Hong Kong born, Estella worked as a primary school teacher
to support a serious travel habit. Her extensive explorations
of China in the 70s resulted in the production of several
successful travel books for the Hong Kong market. When
she moved to New Zealand in 1989 the obvious career
path to follow was that of travel agent. Since then
she has become well known for her custom-made tours
of the country. Estella is a member of many community
and service groups, including the Auckland Chinese Catholic
Community, NZ Chinese Association, Rotary and the NZ
China Trade Association. She sees her role as someone
who bridges communities and cultures, be they Chinese,
Taiwanese or Kiwi.
Miranda TAM was born and bought up in Hong Kong. She came to New Zealand in 1994 and was so much attracted by the clean and green environment that she decided to stay for good. She was a secondary school teacher before and with her teaching experience she would like to do something related to education.
Miranda enjoys the diversity of cultures in NZ and she wants to see every aspect of our world. She has done most of the bush walks in Auckland. Her next ambition is to visit very thermal pool in New Zealand.
Her daughter, Joanna, is living in Sydney and her son, Wallace, is doing his 2nd year of physiotherapy study in AUT. She and her English husband have got a small farm lately. That is where she can experiment some of her planting skills. However, the cattle her husband looks after are not friendly to her crops.
Miranda is trying to influence people round her, from work, from play, with the concept of recycling, using less paper, less chemicals - back to the basic.
Sophia XIAO was born and grown up in Xiamen (Amoy), Fujian, China. She graduated from Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1998 with a bachelor degree. She has been in New Zealand for 6 and half years. She really enjoyed this green and peaceful land, especially South Island. She is interested in Public Health, and hope to improve everyone's health status. She thinks a real healthy people should be care of himself, family, social contacts, living style, and the natural environment. She has been a volunteer in Chinese Conservation Education Trust since Oct 2002.
Portia MAO
Rebecca Rush
Miss Jess Zeng
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