Education
He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990.
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He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990.
Cheung worked in the United States from 1988, and became a naturalized United States citizen. He served as the head of the Oakland Chinese Community Council (屋崙華人服務社). After he moved back to Hong Kong in 1996, he became a lecturer at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
He became the vice-convener of Civil Human Rights Front in 2002.
He had close relationship with the pro-democrats. He joined the functional constituency of social welfare of the Legislative Council in June, 2004.
He defeated Cheung Kwok-chu by a razor-thin 64 votes. Cheung introduced a motion for the referendum on universal suffrage for the 2007 chief executive elections in Hong Kong.
The Chinese government had warned Hong Kong"s pro-democracy legislators not to hold a referendum on universal suffrage for 2007/08.
He has also said that if the motion cannot be passed, he would hold an unofficial referendum.
After three members of the democratic camp said they would not vote for his motion at the Legislative Council"s constitutional affairs panel meeting, he said.