He lived in Stanley, Hong Kong, in a small housing estate, and moved out of the city when he was in middle school.
[3] After returning to Hong Kong from Calgary, Chu answered an advertisement for a summer job as an archivist, which matched his interest as a historian in digging through documents to find what had happened.
The surveillance commissioner Justice Woo Kwok-hing was unable to determine if the wiretapping had been legal because the records had been destroyed.
[9] Chu and other members of the Archive Action Group also criticized the proposal for failing to include penalties such as fines for violation of the law.
[10] For almost twenty years Chu was secretary general of the East Asian branch of the International Council on Archives and helped to develop the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme program in the Asia Pacific region.
[5] In 2003 Chu created the International Post Graduate Certificate course in archives at the University of Hong Kong's School of Professional and Continuing Education (SPACE).
[12] In November 2019 Simon Chu, Adrian Cunningham and Nolda Römer-Kenepa were awarded Fellowships by the International Council on Archives.