Alex Fong quits as chamber chief executive

Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce chief executive Alex Fong Chi-wai is to step down by December, ending his five-year stint at the 150-year-old business body.

Fong has not specified his exact date of departure nor has he elaborated on his next move.

The chamber has not revealed who will be Fong's successor or if it is even looking for one.

Last month, there were rumours about him leaving the chamber. But in an e-mail reply to a South China Morning Post query, he had said he had no plans to leave 'in the immediate future'.

He declined to say if his employment contract had been terminated before its due expiry in September next year.

The rumours had circulated a day before Anthony Wu Ting-yuk was re-elected as the chamber's chairman.