Tiong King Sing

Tiong King Sing
张庆信
Tiong in 2023
Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture
Assumed office
3 December 2022
MonarchsAbdullah
(2022–2024)
Ibrahim Iskandar
(since 2024)
Prime MinisterAnwar Ibrahim
DeputyKhairul Firdaus Akbar Khan
Preceded byNancy Shukri
ConstituencyBintulu
Special Envoy of the Prime Minister to China
Assumed office
20 April 2020
MonarchsAbdullah
(2020–2024)
Ibrahim Iskandar
(since 2024)
Prime MinisterMuhyiddin Yassin
(2020–2021)
Ismail Sabri Yaakob
(2021–2022)
Anwar Ibrahim
(since 2022)
Preceded byTan Kok Wai
Special Envoy of the Prime Minister to East Asia
In office
3 January 2014 – 30 June 2018
MonarchsAbdul Halim
(2014–2016)
Muhammad V
(2016–2018)
Prime MinisterNajib Razak
(2014–2018)
Mahathir Mohamad
(2018)
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byRichard Riot Jaem
Member of the Malaysian Parliament
for Bintulu
Assumed office
29 November 1999
Preceded byChiew Chiu Sing (DAP)
Majority1,400 (1999)
11,267 (2004)
14,966 (2008)
7,433 (2013)
7,022 (2018)
22,168 (2022)
Member of the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly
for Dudong
Assumed office
18 December 2021
Preceded byTiong Thai King
(BNSUPP)
Majority5,806 (2021)
President of the
Progressive Democratic Party
Assumed office
14 November 2017
DeputyNelson Balang Rining
Anthony Nogeh Gumbek
(–2023)
Henry Harry Jinep
(since 2023)
Preceded byPosition established
President of the
Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party
In office
15 May 2014 – 14 November 2017
(Acting:15 May 2014–15 November 2014)
DeputyNelson Balang Rining
Preceded byWilliam Mawan Ikom
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Deputy President of the
Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party
In office
18 March 2012 – 15 November 2014
PresidentWilliam Mawan Ikom
Preceded byPeter Nyarok
Succeeded byWilliam Rining Balang
3rd Chairman of the
Barisan Nasional Backbenchers Club
In office
18 April 2008 – 26 June 2013
DeputyBung Moktar Radin
Preceded byRaja Ahmad Zainuddin Raja Omar
Succeeded byShahrir Abdul Samad
Faction represented in Dewan Rakyat
1999–2018Barisan Nasional
2018Progressive Democratic Party
2018–Gabungan Parti Sarawak
Faction represented in Sarawak State Legislative Assembly
2021–Gabungan Parti Sarawak
Personal details
Born
Tiong King Sing

(1961-09-03) 3 September 1961 (age 63)
Sibu, Crown Colony of Sarawak (now Sarawak, Malaysia)
Political partySarawak National Party (SNAP)
(–2002)
Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP)
(2002–2017)
Progressive Democratic Party (PDP)
(since 2017)
Other political
affiliations
Barisan Nasional (BN)
(–2018)
Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS)
(since 2018)
SpouseHew Mui Lan
Alma materNational Pingtung University of Science and Technology
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionBusinessman
Websitep216bintulu.com
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese張慶信
Simplified Chinese张庆信
Hanyu PinyinZhāng Qìngxìn
Fuzhou BUCDiŏng Kéng-séng

Tiong King Sing JP (simplified Chinese: 张庆信; traditional Chinese: 張慶信; pinyin: Zhāng Qìngxìn; Bàng-uâ-cê: Diŏng Kéng-séng; born 3 September 1961) is a Malaysian politician and businessman who has served as Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture in the Unity Government administration under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim since December 2022 and the Special Envoy of the Prime Ministers Muhyiddin Yassin, Ismail Sabri Yaakob and Anwar to China since April 2020, Member of Parliament (MP) for Bintulu since November 1999 and Member of the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Dudong since December 2021. He served as Special Envoy of the Prime Ministers Najib Razak and Mahathir Mohamad to East Asia from January 2014 to June 2018.[1][2][3][4] He is a member of the Progressive Democratic Party (PDP), a component party of the Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) and formerly Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition. He has served as President of PDP since November 2017. In accordance with its expansion to West Malaysia in November 2017, the party was rebranded with its new name and logo from the Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP), a former component party of the BN coalition. He served as the 3rd Chairman of the BN Backbenchers Club from April 2008 to June 2013. He also served as President of SPDP from May 2014 to November 2017 and Deputy President of SPDP from March 2012 to his promotion to the SPDP presidency in May 2014 and previously the Treasurer-General of SPDP.[5] Following the collapse of the BN administration after the 2018 general election and in the aftermath, a meeting between all Sarawak-based BN component parties was held on 12 June 2018, PDP decided to leave the coalition with the other three parties to form a new Sarawak-based political coalition in the meeting, namely the GPS coalition.[6]

  1. ^ "Tiong appointed special envoy to Far East". The Malay Mail. 5 January 2014. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  2. ^ Justin Ong (7 July 2018). "Report: Putrajaya axing special envoys, advisers". The Star. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  3. ^ "PMO: Tiong King Sing appointed as PM's minister-level special envoy to China". Malay Mail. 20 April 2020. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  4. ^ Koya, Zakiah (20 April 2020). "PDP chief Tiong is now PM's special envoy to China". The Star (Malaysia). Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  5. ^ "PDP plans to expand to Selangor, Negri Sembilan, Klang Valley". Borneo Post. 14 November 2017. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  6. ^ Sharon Ling; Geryl Ogilvy (12 June 2018). "Sarawak BN parties pull out of coalition to form independent state-based pact". The Star. Retrieved 12 June 2018.