Tiong King Sing | |
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张庆信 | |
Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture | |
Assumed office 3 December 2022 | |
Monarchs | Abdullah (2022–2024) Ibrahim Iskandar (since 2024) |
Prime Minister | Anwar Ibrahim |
Deputy | Khairul Firdaus Akbar Khan |
Preceded by | Nancy Shukri |
Constituency | Bintulu |
Special Envoy of the Prime Minister to China | |
Assumed office 20 April 2020 | |
Monarchs | Abdullah (2020–2024) Ibrahim Iskandar (since 2024) |
Prime Minister | Muhyiddin Yassin (2020–2021) Ismail Sabri Yaakob (2021–2022) Anwar Ibrahim (since 2022) |
Preceded by | Tan Kok Wai |
Special Envoy of the Prime Minister to East Asia | |
In office 3 January 2014 – 30 June 2018 | |
Monarchs | Abdul Halim (2014–2016) Muhammad V (2016–2018) |
Prime Minister | Najib Razak (2014–2018) Mahathir Mohamad (2018) |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Richard Riot Jaem |
Member of the Malaysian Parliament for Bintulu | |
Assumed office 29 November 1999 | |
Preceded by | Chiew Chiu Sing (DAP) |
Majority | 1,400 (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 by | Tiong Thai King (BN–SUPP) |
Majority | 5,806 (2021) |
President of the Progressive Democratic Party | |
Assumed office 14 November 2017 | |
Deputy | Nelson Balang Rining Anthony Nogeh Gumbek (–2023) Henry Harry Jinep (since 2023) |
Preceded by | Position established |
President of the Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party | |
In office 15 May 2014 – 14 November 2017 (Acting:15 May 2014–15 November 2014) | |
Deputy | Nelson Balang Rining |
Preceded by | William Mawan Ikom |
Succeeded by | Position abolished |
Deputy President of the Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party | |
In office 18 March 2012 – 15 November 2014 | |
President | William Mawan Ikom |
Preceded by | Peter Nyarok |
Succeeded by | William Rining Balang |
3rd Chairman of the Barisan Nasional Backbenchers Club | |
In office 18 April 2008 – 26 June 2013 | |
Deputy | Bung Moktar Radin |
Preceded by | Raja Ahmad Zainuddin Raja Omar |
Succeeded by | Shahrir Abdul Samad |
Faction represented in Dewan Rakyat | |
1999–2018 | Barisan Nasional |
2018 | Progressive Democratic Party |
2018– | Gabungan Parti Sarawak |
Faction represented in Sarawak State Legislative Assembly | |
2021– | Gabungan Parti Sarawak |
Personal details | |
Born | Tiong King Sing 3 September 1961 Sibu, Crown Colony of Sarawak (now Sarawak, Malaysia) |
Political party | Sarawak 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) |
Spouse | Hew Mui Lan |
Alma mater | National Pingtung University of Science and Technology |
Occupation | Politician |
Profession | Businessman |
Website | p216bintulu |
Chinese name | |
Traditional Chinese | 張慶信 |
Simplified Chinese | 张庆信 |
Hanyu Pinyin | Zhāng Qìngxìn |
Fuzhou BUC | Diŏng 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]