Amid express rail row, it's a Nice time for CY

As government officials were busy trying to defuse the controversy over the express railway delay, Leung Chun-ying was busy doing something else. The chief executive was apparently attending a wedding banquet in southern France.

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Erica Yuen is now preparing to marry in December. Photo Felix Wong

Published: 4:15am, 1 May 2014Updated: 4:53am, 1 May 2014

As government officials were busy trying to defuse the controversy over the express railway delay, Leung Chun-ying was busy doing something else. The chief executive was apparently attending a wedding banquet in southern France. It was not your average wedding reception with roast pork and fried crab claws, but a three-day wedding in Nice where the heirs of two wealthy families were tying the knot. Leung, who is on leave for 10 days until May 6, is believed to have attended the nuptials of Emily Lam Tim-yi, daughter of entertainment mogul Peter Lam Kin-ngok, and Kent Ho Ching-tak, son of Sing Tao Group chairman Charles Ho Tsu-kwok. A government source confirmed Leung was in France, but said his whereabouts was a "private matter". Goodbye MTR; bonjour the famous beaches of Nice.

People Power chairwoman Erica Yuen Mi-ming may have lost in the Southern district council by-election last month, but she has found the love of her life. The former Miss Hong Kong finalist announced on Facebook on Monday that she would be marrying her boyfriend Anthony Lam Yue-yeung, who runs the media platform memehk.com They are linked by politics: both are members of the same radical group and both have stood unsuccessfully in elections to the same district council. Lam came a distant third in the South Horizons West seat in 2011 - an election won by then Democratic Party member Andrew Fung Wai-kwong. In last month's by-election, sparked by Fung's resignation to become the government's point man for media relations, Yuen managed second, behind New People's Party's Judy Chan Ka-pui. Yuen said she still regarded it as a victory because she got more votes than Democrat Sin Chung-kai. Besides preparing for her wedding in December, it is understood that Yuen will also be busy doing community work in South Horizons over plans to turn a shopping mall in the middle-class residential complex on Ap Lei Chau into a shopping outlet for tourists.