Hossen Sohel of DOT :
Fariha Salma Deiya Bakar, 20, whose family is from Bangladesh, speaks fluent Cantonese, Mandarin, Bengali, Hindi, English and the Filipino tongue of Tagalog, reports South China Monitoring Post.
Born in Hong Kong, the university student may become the city’s first ethnic minority lawmaker if she realises her ambitions.
“I want to see more ethnic minority representatives in the government, and make Hong Kong a better place for ethnic minorities to live in,” Bakar says.
And, the City University student may already have a foot in the door – as a Legislative Council assistant, one of a few South Asian faces in the city’s lawmaking body.
It all started when her parents moved from Bangladesh to Hong Kong 25 years ago as regional managers for the local branch of a garment and accessory company. They settled in the city hoping for a better life for their children.
The family of four, including Bakar’s 15-year-old brother, live in a Yau Ma Tei flat in Kowloon, and go back to Bangladesh every two years to visit relatives.