Facts: - party: united -lrb- 1993 -- present -rrb- dab -lrb- 1998 -- present democrats -rrb- -lrb- 1991 -- 93 -rrb- civil force - predecessor: tsang tsang tak-sing adeline wong '' new parliament '' jasper - birth date: 22 june 1957 - native name lang: zh-hk - spouse: mu fee-man - office: secretary mainland affairs bureau member of the legislative council of hong for kong non-official member of the executive council of hong kong home affairs undersecretary of the constitutional and - term end: 21 30 june 1998 -lrb- provisional legislative council -rrb- july 2015 30 september 2012 30 june 2012 - constituency: new territories east - name: lau kong-wah - birth place: hong kong - chief executive: leung chun-ying leung chun-ying - successor: elizabeth quat starry lee - native name: - alma mater: st. university of exeter city polytechnic of hong kong . paul college sir robert black college of education - namedata: raymond tam - blankname: secretary - term start: 21 14 october 2008 21 december 1996 july 2015 21 december 2012 1 july 1998 - appointed: donald tsang - image: lau kong-wah 2014.jpg - ancestry: shunde , guangdong Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of lau kong-wah .
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lau kong-wah , jp -lrb- born 22 june 1957 , hong kong -rrb- is a former member of the legislative council of hong kong .on 14 october 2008 , donald tsang , the chief executive of hong kong , made lau a member of the executive council of hong kong , filling the vacancy left by the resignation of jasper tsang upon the latter becoming president of the legislative council of hong kong .by the end of june 2012 , lau ceased to be a member of the executive council of hong kong .lau is vice-president of the pro-beijing hong kong political party , the democratic alliance for the betterment and progress of hong kong , and founder of civil force .he was , until 2012 , the chairman of the panel on transport in the legislative council of hong kong .in 2012 , lau also lost his seat in the 2012 hong kong legislative council election .