Padang Serai

Padang Serai or lemongrass field, a little town in

Kulim District The Kulim District is a district and town in the state of Kedah, Malaysia. It is located on the southeast of Kedah, bordering Penang. The town of Kulim, a mere east of Penang's capital city, George Town, also forms part of Greater Penang, Ma ...

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. The sleepy hollow, surrounded by oil palm plantations and the nearby Kulim High-tech Industrial Zone has 56 percent Malay, 23 percent Indians and 12 percent Chinese voters. There are few villages such as Kampong Guar Lobak, Kg Terat Batu, Kg Teluk Binu, Kg Sidam Kiri, Kg Sidam Kanan, Kg Sentosa, Permatang Durian and some estates like Ladang Bukit Selarong, Ladang Henrietta, Ladang Nagalilit. Labu Besar is 20 km away. Padang Serai is famous with its "Pekan Ahad" or Sunday's Market. Padang Serai is a fast expanding town with the mushrooming of many new housing estates. For smallholders or planters, there is one Aik Hwa shop supplies fertilisers, herbicide and the fishing gear.

Padang Serai Padang Serai or lemongrass field, a little town in Kulim District, Kedah, Malaysia. The sleepy hollow, surrounded by oil palm plantations and the nearby Kulim High-tech Industrial Zone has 56 percent Malay, 23 percent Indians and 12 percent C ...

is also a parliamentary constituency. The seat was held formerly by N. Surendran of the

People's Justice Party The People's Justice Party ( ms, Parti Keadilan Rakyat , often known simply as KEADILAN or PKR) is a reformist political party in Malaysia, formed in 2003 by a merger of the National Justice Party and the older Malaysian People's Party. The ...

(PKR). He is replaced by

Karuppaiya Muthusamy Karupaiya s/o Muthusami ( ta, கருப்பையா முத்துசாமி, Karuppaiyā muttucāmi, 1953 – 16 November 2022) was a Malaysian politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Padang Serai from May 2018 ...

(PKR) in the

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. Kulim District Towns in Kedah {{Kedah-geo-stub