Cheras (;

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: Tsiâu-lai) is a suburban and a district, straddling both the

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and

Hulu Langat District Hulu Langat District is a district located in the southeastern corner of Selangor, between Kuala Lumpur and Negeri Sembilan. It is bordered by the state of Pahang to the east and north, Gombak district to the north-west, Federal Territory of Kual ...

in the state of

Selangor Selangor (; ), also known by its Arabic language, Arabic honorific Darul Ehsan, or "Abode of Sincerity", is one of the 13 Malaysian states. It is on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and is bordered by Perak to the north, Pahang to the east ...

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 ...

. The township is located to the south-east of downtown Kuala Lumpur. Cheras is also adjacent to Ampang to the north and

Kajang Kajang is a town in Hulu Langat District, Selangor, Malaysia. Kajang, along with much of Hulu Langat District, is governed by the Kajang Municipal Council. Kajang town is located on the eastern banks of the Langat River. It is surrounded ...

to the south, both of which are major towns within the metropolitan area of taman sgr perdana cheras.Ayu Aziz. (2003, February). Rediscovering Cheras. Malaysian Business,01. , from ProQuest Asian Business and Reference. (Document ID: 299258681). The district mainly consist of Chinese residents, which also make up the majority of voters for the Cheras electorate. Cheras name may origin from the Cheras dynasty from India. Cholas , Cheran and Pandiyan are 3 dynasty which was ruling south India during the year 800 to 1300. The Cholas came to Malaysia , Indonesia and IndoChina. The name of Cheras may origin from the Cheras kingdom in india. We can refer to Cheras dynasty .

Education

Beaconhouse Newlands International School This is a list of schools in Selangor, Malaysia. It is categorised according to the variants of schools in Malaysia and is arranged alphabetically. Private schools Chinese independent high schools * Chung Hua Independent High School * Hin ...

* Cempaka National School * Oxburgh International School (Oxburgh Academy) * Sri Sempurna International School * Sunway College @ Velocity * UCSI International School Kuala Lumpur *

UCSI University UCSI University is a private university in Malaysia. It's ranked 284th university in the world. Currently, all UCSI University's programmes have received a 100% employability score from the Malaysian Higher Education Ministry's Graduate Em ...

* YPC International College

Transportation

Cheras is served by a number of stations on the MRT Kajang Line which includes the AEON–Maluri, Taman Pertama, Taman Midah, Taman Mutiara,

Taman Connaught Connaught (Jawi: کوناکت, Chinese: 康乐花园, Tamil:கொனாச்ட் ) is a residential township in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is strategically located at the confluence of three major roads namely, Kuala Lumpur Middle Ring ...

Taman Suntex Taman may refer to: Places *Taman Peninsula, a peninsula in southern Russia **Taman Bay, an inlet of the Strait of Kerch off the peninsula **Taman, Russia, a rural locality located on the peninsula ** Port of Taman, a seaport on the Peninsula * ...

and Sri Raya. The district is also served by AEON–Maluri LRT station and Cheras LRT station on the Ampang and Sri Petaling lines respectively.

Politics

The current

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 Cheras parliamentary constituency is

Tan Kok Wai Tan Kok Wai () (born 7 October 1957) is a Malaysian politician who served as Special Envoy to the Prime Minister to China in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration under former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad from August 2018 to March 2020. ...

from

Pakatan Harapan The Alliance of Hope ( ms, Pakatan Harapan; abbrev: PH; stylized as HARAPAN) is a Malaysian political coalition consisting of centre-left political parties which was formed in 2015 to succeed the Pakatan Rakyat coalition. It has been the ...

, who won the seat in the 2018 Malaysian general election. He has all along been the Member of Parliament for Cheras since 1995 when the constituency was first established.

References

External links

* {{coord, 3.107178, 101.71649, display=title Suburbs in Kuala Lumpur