Robert Chow Yung: There is another voice in Hong Kong
Robert Chow Yung, the man behind the anti-Occupy Central campaign, says he isn't being political; he just wants harmony for Hong Kong
For those unfamiliar with Robert Chow Yung, it may be hard to imagine someone so soft-spoken as the leader of an aggressive campaign against the planned Occupy Central protests.
"You may say I'm pro-China. I'm proud of being Chinese [but] I have no links with China. I was born and bred in Hong Kong," says Chow, who denies having a political motive for his crusade against the pro-democracy movement. "People will call you leftist or communist just because you don't fully agree with what the pan-democrats do or say."
With more than four decades of experience in the local media business, he knows how it feels being a news target.
Chow - who has worked for the Hongkong Standard, RTHK and Cable TV, among others - has been viewed with hostility by some media outlets since he started his campaign.
Only recently, he found himself embroiled in a controversy over his nationality, with people accusing him of holding a British passport.
On the other side of the camp, Alliance for True Democracy convenor Professor Joseph Cheng Yu-shek has also been accused of holding an Australian passport and having given up his Chinese nationality.