https://wiki.sarg.dev/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Stephen_IpStephen Ip - Revision history2026-06-25T22:31:06ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.44.2https://wiki.sarg.dev/index.php?title=Stephen_Ip&diff=769912&oldid=previmported>OpalYosutebito: Adding local short description: "Hong Kong writer (born 1951)", overriding Wikidata description "Hong Kong writer"2025-08-23T17:53:59Z<p>Adding local <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_description" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Short description">short description</a>: "Hong Kong writer (born 1951)", overriding Wikidata description "Hong Kong writer"</p>
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'''Stephen Ip Shue-kwan''', [[Hong Kong honours system|GBS]], [[Justice of the peace|JP]] (born 1951) is a former politician in Hong Kong, he was [[Secretary for Economic Development and Labour]] for the [[Hong Kong Special Administrative Region]] from 2002 to 2007.<br />
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The post of Secretary for Economic Development and Labour is a political appointment. Ip was Secretary for Economic Services in June 1996 under [[Chris Patten]]'s colonial administration, until he took up his last civil service post of Secretary for Financial Services in June 2000. In 2005, he proposed a 25–50% decrease in port fees to increase Hong Kong's [[Competition (companies)|competitiveness]] in the [[Pearl River Delta Economic Zone]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Port fees, charges to be cut: Stephen Ip|newspaper=news.hk.gov|date=7 December 2005|url=http://www.news.gov.hk/en/category/businessandfinance/051207/html/051207en03002.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060509080914/http://news.gov.hk/en/category/businessandfinance/051207/html/051207en03002.htm|archive-date=9 May 2006|df=dmy-all}}</ref><br />
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After his retirement, he became a [[food critic]]. He is currently writing columns for ''[[Headline Daily]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=專欄作家 {{!}} 葉Sir食經 - 葉澍堃 |url=https://hd.stheadline.com/news/columns/48/%E5%B0%88%E6%AC%84-%E8%91%89Sir%E9%A3%9F%E7%B6%93-%E8%91%89%E6%BE%8D%E5%A0%83 |website=Headline Daily |language=zh-yue-Hant-HK}}</ref><br />
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{{s-ttl | title=[[Secretary for Financial Services]] | years=2000–2002}}<br />
{{s-aft | after=[[Frederick Ma]] | as=[[Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury]]}}<br />
{{s-bef | before=[[Sandra Lee (Hong Kong)|Sandra Lee]]|as=[[Secretary for Economic Services]]}}<br />
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{{s-bef | before=[[Fanny Law]]|as=[[Secretary for Education and Manpower]]}}<br />
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{{s-bef|before = [[Denise Yue]]<br/><small>''Recipients of the Gold Bauhinia Star''</small>}}<br />
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{{s-aft|after = [[James Tien (politician)|James Tien]]<br/><small>''Recipients of the Gold Bauhinia Star''</small>}}<br />
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