Hok Yau Club is an independent and non-profit non-governmental organisation (NGO) in Hong Kong.
Since the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong back to the People's Republic of China in 1997, the club has launched a number of civic projects to promote patriotic education to the younger generation.
After a prolonged discussion among the members of a readers club of the Wah Kiu Yat Po (華僑日報), a popular Hong Kong newspaper at the time, it adopted the current name in 1975 to reflect the changing nature of the organisation.
His application must be recommended and countersigned by two others qualified voting members, and is subject to the approval of the Standing Committee of the club.
In recent years, there have been changes of the procedure that applicants are required to attend seminars on the club's history.
Head Office is assigned as A, while Island Centre is B and SGC is C. The annual renewal of membership has no effect on the number.
One of the club's venues was, and still is, located in Kiu Kwan Mansion, North Point, serving as the command centre and arms/weapon storage at the time of the riots.
Florence Leung Mo-han, Hok Yau Club president from 1962 to 1974, was a Communist Party member.
[7] She has since immigrated to Canada and published Chinese-language memoirs in 2012 titled My Time in Hong Kong's Underground Communist Party.
[8] In his book "Song of the Azalea: Memoir of a Chinese son", Kenneth Ore(柯其毅), one of the club's former members (so as he has claimed), has described himself as "underground recruiter" and uncovered his participation to the underground activities of the Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong through the club in the 1960s and 1970s, such as bribery, money laundering, arms trafficking, and support of terrorism.. Just before the handover of Hong Kong, the club was once again openly accused as an underground branch of the Chinese Communist Party and under the control of the Party's Hong Kong and Macau Working Committee (中國共產黨港澳工作委員會).
[9] Former Honorary Patrons include Selina Tsang, wife of former Chief Executive Donald Tsang, and Betty Tung Hung-ping, wife of then Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, who resigned after her husband had stepped down from power in 2005.