Hongkonger becomes voice of Dalian men

DALIAN: Ask Derek Lee Yau-Wai, the youngest of eight Hong Kong and Macao members of the Dalian Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), what he liked most about this year's recently concluded meeting, and he will tell you it was meeting his father.

"We live in the same city, but our businesses take up most of our time. We don't get to see each other much," Derek, 33, said on the sidelines of last week's annual conference.

Derek's father, Fred Lee Show-Kiong, is a standing member of the CPPCC Dalian committee. This was the fourth time the father-son duo attended the conference in Dalian, a port city in northeast China's Liaoning province.