NewCommunity service for education official who got friend’s niece into school

An Education Bureau official who transferred a friend’s niece into a school under her supervision has been sentenced to 140 hours of community service.

Yuen Wai-Cheong, 52, a senior school development officer at the time, transferred a student into the Church of Christ in China Mong Man Wai College in July 2011 without reporting her relationship with the student’s aunt, her long-time landlord and friend, heard the Kowloon City Court.

Yuen had pleaded not guilty to a charge of misconduct in public office.