The Financial Secretary has appointed eight new non-official members to the Business Facilitation Advisory Committee, it was announced today.

Anthony Nightingale and Emily Lau will remain chairman and deputy chairman.

The new appointees are Benjamin Cha, Andrew Fung, Alan Lo, Poman Lo, Anthony Lock, Bryant Lu, Patrick Wong and Douglas Young. Their term will end December 31, 2011.

Current non-official members Anthony Nightingale, Emily Lau, Richard Au Yeung, Tommy Cheung, Philip Fan, Dennis Kwok, Angela Lee, Leung Kam-leung, Caroline Mak, Raj Motwani, Eddie Ng, Professor Raymond So, Joseph Wong and Yu Pang-chun have been reappointed.