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Kinta District
The Kinta District is a district in Perak, Malaysia. It contains the state capital Ipoh. History Kinta District was once famous for its tin, being one of the major tin producers in the 18th century. Administrative divisions Kinta District is divided into 5 mukims, which are: * Belanja * Sungai Terap (Batu Gajah town) * Sungai Raia (including Simpang Pulai) * Tanjung Tualang * Hulu Kinta (including much of Ipoh's urban area) Government Kinta District is divided into two major councils: *Ipoh City Council , based in Ipoh, the state capital of Perak *Batu Gajah District Council, based in the town of Batu Gajah The district and land officer also divided into Ipoh and Batu Gajah, and the Kinta District Office is centered at Batu Gajah. Demographics The following is based on Department of Statistics Malaysia 2020 census. Federal Parliament and State Assembly Seats List of Kinta district representatives in the Federal Parliament (Dewan Rakyat) List of Kinta district rep ...
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Jawi Alphabet
Jawi (; ace, Jawoë; Kelantan-Pattani: ''Yawi''; ) is a writing system used for writing several languages of Southeast Asia, such as Acehnese, Banjarese, Kerinci, Maguindanaon, Malay, Minangkabau, Tausūg, and Ternate. Jawi is based on the Arabic script, consisting of all of the original 31 Arabic letters, and six additional letters constructed to fit the phonemes native to Malay, and an additional phoneme used in foreign loanwords, but not found in Classical Arabic, which are ''ca'' ( ), ''nga'' ( ), ''pa'' ( ), ''ga'' ( ), ''va'' ( ), and ''nya'' ( ). Jawi was developed from the advent of Islam in the Maritime Southeast Asia, supplanting the earlier Brahmic scripts used during Hindu-Buddhist era. The oldest evidence of Jawi writing can be found on the 14th century Terengganu Inscription Stone, recorded in Classical Malay language that contains a mixture of Malay, Sanskrit and Arabic vocabularies. There are two competing theories on the origin of the Jawi alphabet. ...
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Simpang Pulai
Simpang Pulai ( Jawi: سيمڤڠ ڤولاي; ; Tamil: சிம்பாங் புலாய்) is a town in Kinta District, Perak, Malaysia. Transportation Car As mentioned earlier, highway Federal Route 1, the premier north–south federal highway of Peninsular Malaysia, passes here. Simpang Pulai is perhaps famous for being the newest gateway for Perakian motorists to the east coast states of Pahang, Kelantan and Terengganu – the Second East–West Highway ( Federal Route 185) begins here, passes through Cameron Highlands in Pahang, then Gua Musang in Kelantan before terminating in Kuala Jenderis in Hulu Terengganu. The PLUS Expressway The PLUS Expressways Berhad () is the largest highway concessionaries or build–operate–transfer operator company in Malaysia. A member of the UEM Group, the company is also the largest listed toll expressway operator in Southeast Asia and t ... exit 137 serves Simpang Pulai. Other features A Ria Moda Jakel Trading Textile ...
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Tan Kar Hing
Tan Kar Hing (; born 4 May 1982) is a Malaysian politician from the People's Justice Party (PKR). He is the incumbent Perak State Legislative Assemblyman for Simpang Pulai constituency. Tan was formerly a Member of Perak State Executive Council (EXCO) for Tourism, Art, and Culture during the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition rules from 2018 to 2020. Tan was also former Vice Leader of PKR Youth WingAMK and is now acting as Vice Chairman of Perak PKR. Political career Tan first contested the Perak state seat of Simpang Pulai Simpang Pulai ( Jawi: سيمڤڠ ڤولاي; ; Tamil: சிம்பாங் புலாய்) is a town in Kinta District, Perak, Malaysia. Transportation Car As mentioned earlier, highway Federal Route 1, the premier north–south fed ... in the 2013 general election (GE13) as a PKR candidate and won with a majority of 11,083 votes. He successfully defended the seat in the 2018 general election (GE14), almost doubling his majority. Elect ...
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Gopeng (federal Constituency)
Gopeng is a federal constituency in Kinta District and Kampar District, Perak, Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ..., that has been represented in the Dewan Rakyat since 1986. The federal constituency was created in the 1984 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system. Demographics History Polling districts According to the federal gazette issued on 31 October 2022, the Gopeng constituency is divided into 33 polling districts. Representation history State constituency Current state assembly members Local governments Election results ...
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Chong Zhemin
Chong Zhemin () is a Malaysian politician. He has been the Member of Perak State Legislative Assembly for Keranji since 2018. Politics He is the Chief of Bureau of Economic Development DAP Perak and the political secretary for the Chairman of DAP Perak, Nga Kor Ming David Nga Kor Ming (; born 11 November 1972), is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Minister of Local Government Development in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim since December 2022. He serve .... Election result References External links * Living people 21st-century Malaysian politicians Democratic Action Party (Malaysia) politicians Members of the Perak State Legislative Assembly Malaysian people of Chinese descent Malaysian politicians of Chinese descent Year of birth missing (living people) {{Malaysia-politician-stub ...
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Kampar (federal Constituency)
Kampar is a federal constituency in Kampar District and Kinta District, Perak, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Dewan Rakyat The Dewan Rakyat (English: 'House of Representatives'; ) is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament, the federal legislature of Malaysia. The chamber and its powers are established by Article 44 of the Constitution of Malaysia. The Dewan Ra ... from 1959 to 1974, from 1986 to present. The federal constituency was created in the 1958 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system. Demographics History It was abolished in 1974 when it was redistributed. It was re-created in 1984. Polling districts According to the federal gazette issued on 31 October 2022, the Kampar constituency is divided into 51 polling districts. Representation history State constituency Current state assembly members Local governments Election results ...
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Batu Gajah (federal Constituency)
Batu Gajah is a federal constituency in Kinta District, Perak, Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ..., that has been represented in the Dewan Rakyat since 1959. The federal constituency was created in the 1958 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system. Demographics History Polling districts According to the gazette issued on 31 October 2022, the Batu Gajah constituency has a total of 34 polling districts.Akta Portal


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Ipoh Barat (federal Constituency)
Ipoh Barat is a federal constituency in Kinta District, Perak, Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ..., that has been represented in the Dewan Rakyat since 1995. The federal constituency was created in the 1994 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system. This is only one of two constituencies naming in same city. Another one is Ipoh Timor. Demographics History Polling districts According to the federal gazette issued on 31 October 2022, the Ipoh Barat constituency is divided into 30 polling districts. Representation history State constituency Current state assembly members Local governments Election results ...
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Lee Chuan How
Howard Lee Chuan How (; born 3 January 1983) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ipoh Timor since November 2022. He served as Member of the Perak State Executive Council (EXCO) in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) state administration under former Menteri Besar Ahmad Faizal Azumu from May 2018 to the collapse of the PH state administration in March 2020 and Member of the Perak State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Pasir Pinji from May 2013 to November 2022. He is a member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a component party of the PH opposition coalition. In DAP, he served as Youth Chief or known as Chief of the DAP youth wing namely Democratic Action Party Socialist Youth (DAPSY) from December 2018 to March 2022 while in PH, he served as its 4th Youth Chief from September 2021 to July 2022 and previously served as its Deputy Youth Chief. He was the 24th President of International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY). Early life Lee was born ...
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Ipoh Timor (federal Constituency)
Ipoh Timor is a federal constituency in Kinta District, Perak, Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ..., that has been represented in the Dewan Rakyat since 1995. The federal constituency was created in the 1994 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system. This is only one of two constituencies naming in same city. The other one is Ipoh Barat. Demographics History Polling districts According to the federal gazette issued on 31 October 2022, the Ipoh Timor constituency is divided into 26 polling districts. Representation history State constituency Current state assembly members Local governments Election results ...
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Anwar Ibrahim
Anwar bin Ibrahim ( ms, انور بن ابراهيم, label= Jawi, script=arab, italic=unset, IPA: ; born 10 August 1947) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia since November 2022. He served as the 12th and 16th Leader of the Opposition from August 2008 to March 2015 and again from May 2020 to November 2022. He has also served as Minister of Finance from March 1991 to September 1998 and again since December 2022 and 2nd Chairman of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition since May 2020, 2nd President of the People's Justice Party (PKR) since November 2018 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tambun since November 2022. He also served as Deputy Prime Minister and in many other Cabinet positions in the Barisan Nasional (BN) administration under former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad from 1982 until his removal in 1998. A graduate from University of Malaya, Anwar started his political career as one of the founders of youth organisation An ...
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Tambun (federal Constituency)
Tambun is a federal constituency in Kinta District, Perak, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Dewan Rakyat The Dewan Rakyat (English: 'House of Representatives'; ) is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament, the federal legislature of Malaysia. The chamber and its powers are established by Article 44 of the Constitution of Malaysia. The Dewan Ra ... since 1986. The federal constituency was created in the 1984 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system. Demographics History Polling districts According to the gazette issued on 31 October 2022, the Tambun constituency has a total of 37 polling districts. Representation history State constituency Current state assembly members Local governments Election results References * {{Malaysian federal constituencie ...
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