Hong Kong lawmaker fined $1,200 for looking at bikini pictures during meeting

Albert Ho, the Hong Kong lawmaker who was photographed last week looking at bikini-clad women during a budget speech, has been fined 7,890 yuan ($1,200 / 10,000 HKD), to be paid to a women’s group or similar non-governmental organization.

Ho, secretary general of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China, was caught looking at scantily-dressed pictures of models on his tablet during finance secretary John Tsang's two hour budget speech to the Legislative Council last week.

Ho was later called before a panel set up by the party's disciplinary committee. He is the first Democratic Party member to be fined for misbehaviour.

"Ho accepted the judgment and apologized to the public and his fellow party members," the panel said in a statement. "He has promised to learn from this and remind himself to maintain a high standard of conduct."