Ethnic minorities in Hong Kong
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Shehzad Mamood Khan is Hong Kong's first ethnic minority taxi driver. Photo: K. Y. Cheng
Two men surnamed Khan have made the news recently – one in Hong Kong, one in London. Both have a success story to tell, but the difference in what they aspired to speaks volumes about social progress and prejudice in the two cities.
Here in Hong Kong, Shehzad Mamood Khan ; in fact, he’s the only non-Chinese taxi driver in the city. In London, Sadiq Khan had loftier ambitions; he has just been elected as the ; in fact, he’s the first Muslim mayor of any major Western city. His father was a bus driver in London, so one could say that both Shehzad Mamood Khan and Sadiq Khan hail from the transport sector, even though they have ended up at very different points.
Haider Barma, a third-generation Hong Kong-born ethnic Indian, was transport secretary before disappearing from the civil service under “localisation rules” in 1996. Photo: SCMP Pictures
Hong Kong's second world war history
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Volunteer clean-up effort restores ‘forgotten’ cemetery for Hong Kong’s fallen South Asian soldiers
- Azan Marwah initiated the push to fix up the site after he visited on Remembrance Sunday expecting a service, only to find that there was none, and the cemetery was in disrepair
- ‘This is a visible representation, particularly the memorial, of our contribution to Hong Kong, but people cannot see it unless it is in a state to be seen,’ he says
Volunteers working to clean up the historic cemetery. Photo: Edmond So
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