The Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute (Chinese: 香港民意研究所, abbrev.
It conducts public opinion surveys on a regular basis and was officially registered as a limited company on 19 February 2019.
It was set up in June 1991 as a self-funding unit by Dr Robert Chung under the Faculty of Social Sciences in the University of Hong Kong.
[4] In December 2024, the National Security Department released a warrant for the institute's former Deputy CEO Chung Kim-wah, for "inciting secession and colluding with foreign forces".
[5][6] In January 2025, the CEO of the institute Robert Chung was taken away by the police under suspicion of "using his own company to render assistance to a wanted person who has absconded overseas, in continuing activities endangering national security in Hong Kong".