Lo Wai-kwok, the 73-year-old chairman of Hong Kong’s largest pro-business party and a former lawmaker, has announced his engagement to a Cantonese opera actress 42 years his junior, becoming the talk of the city’s political circles.
Lo’s engagement to 31-year-old Yemina Yu Chung-yan comes five years after the death of his wife Adelina Wong Siu-chun.
The couple, whose wedding will be held in October, are set to add to the city’s growing number of remarriages, which rose from 15,832 in 2019 to 20,971 in 2024, a jump of 32 per cent.
Lo, who heads the Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong, appeared with Yu on Friday at a media event at the party’s headquarters, where they smiled, held hands and exchanged affectionate glances.
Sharing a passion for Cantonese opera, they also performed a short piece together for reporters.
According to Lo, the pair first met decades ago when Yu, then a primary school student, won a Cantonese opera competition and his late wife introduced them.
