Hong Kong's First Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa Dies At 89

Hong Kong's first Chief Executive, Tung Chee-hwa, died on September 8 at the age of 89. Tung served for nearly eight years from 1997 to 2005, a period that coincided with the early years after Hong Kong's sovereignty handover and included the Asian financial crisis, the dot-com bust and the SARS outbreak, according to Ming Pao. His policies on property, finance and innovation and technology became an important chapter in Hong Kong's economic history.