Josiah Lau

Josiah Lau Ka Kit (Traditional Chinese: 劉家傑, Simplified Chinese: 刘家杰, Pinyin: Liu Jiajie, born in 1940 in Hong Kong with family roots in Shunde, Guangdong, China) was an English language teacher in Hong Kong who hosted "One Minute's English" on RTHK, a famous English-teaching TV programme of the 1990s. He graduated from the University of Hong Kong.

Before that, Lau worked as a news reporter in TVB. On 9 September 1976, the day Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong died in Beijing, Lau narrated a three-hour documentary about Mao. The TVB documentary was heavily criticised by Nationalists and by the local right-wing press for distorting historical fact to flatter the Communists. [Alfred Li, [TVB apologises for Chinese script of Mao documentary] , The Standard, Oct 3, 1976] The program was specifically criticised for attributing the Nanking massacre to the Nationalist Army. [ [http://sunzi1.lib.hku.hk/newspaper/view/23_18.01/33539.pdf Watt critical of Mao film translation] , The Standard, Oct 13, 1976] Lau was suspended by the broadcaster. He then resigned to settle the disappointment, but the reason why he made the narration remains a mystery.

Lau emigrated to Canada before the transfer of the sovereignty of Hong Kong in 1997.

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