Datuk Datuk (or its variant Dato or Datu) is a Malay title commonly used in Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia, as well as a traditional title by Minangkabau people in West Sumatra, Indonesia. The title of the wife of Datuk is Datin. Origin The oldest ...

Tiong Thai King (; born 4 July 1945) is a

Malaysian Malaysian may refer to: * Something from or related to Malaysia, a country in Southeast Asia * Malaysian Malay, a dialect of Malay language spoken mainly in Malaysia * Malaysian people, people who are identified with the country of Malaysia regard ...

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...

who served as Member of the

Sarawak State Legislative Assembly The Sarawak State Legislative Assembly is the legislative chamber of the unicameral legislature of the Malaysian state of Sarawak; the Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Sarawak forms the other part of the legislature. The Assembly is modelled after the ...

(MLA) for

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from May 2016 to December 2021 and

Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...

(MP) for the

Lanang Lanang is a federal constituency in Sibu Division (Sibu District), Sarawak, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Dewan Rakyat since 1990. The federal constituency was created in the 1987 redistribution and is mandated to return a single m ...

from April 1995 to May 2013. He was a member of the federal and state opposition

Parti Sarawak Bersatu The United Sarawak Party ( ms, Parti Sarawak Bersatu, abbreviated PSB) is a multi-racial political party based in the state of Sarawak. In 2021, PSB managed to retain their four seats ( Batu Lintang, Engkilili, Ba'kelalan and Bawang Assan), ...

(PSB) before he quits politics in 2021. Previously he was a member of the

Sarawak United Peoples' Party The Sarawak United Peoples' Party, or SUPP (; ms, Parti Rakyat Bersatu Sarawak; Iban: ''Gerempong Sa'ati Rayat Sarawak'') is a multiracial centre-right local political party of Malaysia based in Sarawak. The SUPP president is Dr. Sim Kui Hi ...

(SUPP), a component party of the federal and state ruling

Gabungan Parti Sarawak The Sarawak Parties Alliance (Malay: ''Gabungan Parti Sarawak''; abbrev: GPS) is a Sarawak-based national political alliance in Malaysia. It was established in 2018 by four former Barisan Nasional (BN) component parties operating solely in Sa ...

(GPS) coalition and a former component party of the federal ruling

Barisan Nasional The National Front ( ms, Barisan Nasional; abbrev: BN) is a political coalition of Malaysia that was founded in 1973 as a coalition of centre-right and right-wing political parties. It is also the third largest political coalition with 30 se ...

(BN) coalition. Tiong was elected to

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in the 1995 general election. In 2004 he was appointed Chairman of the

Sibu Municipal Council The Sibu Municipal Council ( Malay: ''Majlis Perbandaran Sibu'', abbreviated SMC or MPS) is the municipal council which administers the district of Sibu in the state of Sarawak, Malaysia. History Sibu Municipal Board Sibu Municipal Board was fou ...

. He is also a former

Senator A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...

. In the 2011 Sarawak election, he was nominated as the candidate for the

constituency, but was defeated by Yap Hoi Liong of the

Democratic Action Party The Democratic Action Party (abbreviation: DAP; ms, Parti Tindakan Demokratik; ; ta, ஜனநாயக செயல் கட்சி) is a Centre-left politics, centre-left social democracy, social democratic political party in Malaysia. ...

(DAP) by 317 votes. He failed to defend his federal parliamentary seat at the 2013 general election, losing to

Alice Lau Kiong Yieng , birth_name = Alice Lau Kiong Yieng , birth_date = , birth_place = Sibu, Sibu Division, Sarawak, Malaysia , death_date = , death_place = , death_cause = , resting_place = , resting_place_coordin ...

of the DAP by 8,630 votes. However, in the 2016 state election, he contested in the

constituency in Sarawak for the second time as direct BN candidate, and he won the seat this time, with the majority of 2,146 votes, beating the incumbent Yap Hoi Liong of DAP, Mary Ting Yiik Hong of

State Reform Party Sarawak People's Aspiration Party or ( ms, "Parti Aspirasi Rakyat Sarawak", abbreviated ASPIRASI), is a political party based in Sarawak, Malaysia, renamed and rebranded from previously State Reform Party abbreviated STAR. Background and histo ...

(STAR), and 2 independent candidates, Casper Kayong Umping and Dato Sri Dr. Benny Lee. Tiong officially resigned from the PSB party, effective 1 December 2021, just around the time of 2021 state election.

Personal life

He is the younger brother of

Tiong Hiew King Tan Sri Datuk Tiong Hiew King (; Hokchew Romanized: ''Diŏng Hiēu-kĭng''; born 1935) is the Malaysian Chinese founder and chairman of the Rimbunan Hijau Group, a timber company founded in 1975. Its overseas timber operations in Papua N ...

, founding chairman of the

Rimbunan Hijau Group Rimbunan Hijau is a Malaysian multinational logging corporation controlled by Malaysian businessman Tiong Hiew King. The company has operations in many countries, including Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Vanuat ...

, an established multinational timber and logging corporation.

Election results

References

1945 births Living people People from Sarawak Malaysian politicians of Chinese descent Sarawak United Peoples' Party politicians Members of the Dewan Rakyat Members of the Dewan Negara Members of the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly {{Malaysia-politician-stub