Politician and leading business light Kenneth Fung dies aged 92

Former executive councillor and leading businessman Sir Kenneth Fung Ping-fan has died at the age of 92.

Fung was an influential figure in business and politics, serving on the Legislative Council - from 1959 to 1965 and from 1962 to 1972 - as well as on the now disbanded Urban Council from 1951 to 1960.

He was one of the three sons of Fung Ping-shan, a banker philanthropist and founder director of the Bank of East Asia. Fung served as chief manager and a director of the bank.

At the age of 19, he took over a number of his father's companies. In 1938 he founded the Fung Ping Fan Group, which had five strands: audio and video products, consumer goods and household appliances, wines and spirits, travel services, and dried food. The group held the franchise for the first McDonald's restaurants in Hong Kong.

Fung was also famous for his charity work, serving as president of the Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation, permanent director of the Po Leung Kuk and honorary president of the Boy Scouts' Association.

The mainland appointed him as a senior consultant for the external economy of Chongqing Government and he served as honorary director of the Beijing Municipal Development Centre of Science and Technology of Agriculture, Forestry and Animal Husbandry.