An embarrassed Hong Kong lawmaker has apologised after he was photographed looking at scantily-dressed pictures of models on his tablet computer during a budget speech at the Chinese city’s parliament.
Pro-democracy politician Albert Ho was snapped flipping through multiple photos of bikini-clad ladies while finance minister John Tsang delivered a one-and-a-half-hour long budget speech on Wednesday.
“It just so happened that at that time, I casually saw the photos,” said Ho, who failed in a bid to become the semi-autonomous city’s leader in 2012.
“I have learnt a lesson, I should not commit such a mistake again,” he told reporters on Wednesday, adding that he had apologised for the incident.
Photographs published in local media showed Ho in the legislative chamber holding up the screen cover of his iPad tablet, apparently in an attempt to conceal what he was doing, while swiping through the photos.