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1941Mar, 28

Philip Fang

Philip Fang, Hong Kong simultaneous interpretation specialist, United Nations official (d. 2013)
Philip Fang Shun-sang (Chinese: 方順生; 28 March 1941 – 3 November 2013) was a Hong Kong simultaneous interpreter. He provided interpretation services in the United Nations (UN) from 1971 to 1999, having served as chief of its Chinese interpretation section.

Fang received his education in Hong Kong, the United States and the United Kingdom. Before he became chief of UN Chinese interpretation section, he served in the UN as a simultaneous interpreter and was stationed in New York City and Geneva.

In his later years, Fang suffered kidney disease. In 2011, he openly supported the prerequisite of being patriotic to China to be a popularly-elected Chief Executive of Hong Kong, while calling his sister Anson Chan, a pan-democrat, one of Hong Kong's "Gang of Four". Fang fell from his apartment on 3 November 2013 at the age of 72; he was suspected of committing suicide because of illness.

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