Widow fights for children's right to stay in territory
A widow is fighting to raise her two mainland children in the territory after her husband was killed in an industrial accident.
Today, Lee Fan Sau-yung, 39, will take her two-way permit-holder children - daughter Yim-wah, 11, and son Wai-chung, 9 - to Central for a march on Government House. They will join 14 other families whose bread-winners were killed in industrial accidents.
Mrs Lee wants the Immigration Department to give her fatherless children the right to stay in Hong Kong.
On May 16, Lee Shun-wing, 48, was killed by a falling rock while working at the Route Three construction site, leaving his wife to care for their 12-year-old son Ming-cheong in Hong Kong and the two younger children in Qingyuan, China.
Mrs Lee said: 'My heart is torn between my love for my elder son and the younger ones. I cannot leave my children.' Yim-wah said she wants to stay in Hong Kong with her mother. 'I miss her every time she goes,' she said.
Mrs Lee and Ming-cheong received their one-way permits two years ago, while the younger children were left with their grandmother in the mainland.
