The board of directors of Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holdings Limited announced that Mr. Wong King Fai, Peter (‘Mr. Wong') will retire from his position as Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer & Group Managing Director of the Company with effect from 1 January 2017; and Mr. Frank John Sixt (‘Mr. Sixt') will resign from his position as Non-executive Director of the company with effect from 1 January 2017 to devote more time to his other commitments. Concurrently, Mr. Lai Kai Ming, Dominic (‘Mr. Lai') will cease to act as Alternate Director to Mr. Sixt with effect from 1 January 2017. The board also announced that Mr. Woo Chiu Man, Cliff (‘Mr. Woo') will be appointed as Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Company with effect from 1 January 2017.

Mr. Woo has been a director of Hutchison Telecommunications (Australia) Limited. Mr. Woo held various senior technology management positions in the telecommunications industry before joining in 1998 the group of Hutchison Whampoa Limited (‘HWL'). He was deputy managing director of Hutchison Telecommunications (Hong Kong) Limited, from 2000 to 2004.

Mr. Woo is also alternate director to Mr. Lai, a director of VHA. HTAL, HWL, and HTIL are all subsidiaries of CKHH. The board further announced that Ms. Edith Shih (‘Ms. Shih') will be appointed as Non-executive Director of the Company with effect from 1 January 2017.

Ms. Shih is currently the Company Secretary of the Company. She is also the Head Group General Counsel and Company Secretary of CKHH and a Non-executive Director of Hutchison China MediTech Limited. Ms. Shih is a director of CK Hutchison Global Investments Limited.

The board finally announced that Mr. Lai will be appointed as Alternate Director to Mr. Fok and Ms. Shih. Mr. Lai has been a Non-executive Director of the Company since 4 March 2009 and Alternate Director to Mr. Sixt, since 11 May 2010. Mr. Lai is an executive director and deputy managing director of CKHH since 3 June 2015.