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Ho's year of controversy

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February

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Starts a weekly 24-hour hunger strike to support mainland lawyer Gao Zhisheng (left), who had his business licence withdrawn for representing residents forcibly evicted.

May

Questions small-house policy enshrined in the Basic Law, which says traditional rights for indigenous villagers should be maintained. Indigeneous villagers in New Territories later confront Mr Ho in Legco but he declines to apologise. He was punched on the shoulder in his district office in Tuen Mun in June.

May

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Represents the Moon Valley Foundation, controlled by Winnie Ho Yuen-ki (below), sister of Macau casino mogul Stanley Ho Hung-sun, to challenge the legitimacy of a Sociedade de Turismo e Diversoes de Macau shareholders' meeting in March, which approved spinning off assets of Sociedade de Jogos de Macau (SJM) to an HK company.

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