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Door open to Adit and Dr. Rayong to Streghten State's BN, but final decision with coalition leaders: Mawan

• Datuk William Mawan Ikom

• Bintulu:-More than hundreds of three villagers at Kampung Jepak are impatiently looking forward to the coming Hari Raya festival as their electricicity supplies will be possibly ready following the personal contribution of the Member of Parliament for Bintulu, Dato’ Seri Tiong King Sing JP.

• All elected State Representatives must from now on deliver all the promises they have pledged to the Rakyat during their campaigns.  In addition, all the Wakil Rakyats must be receptive and been seen and felt that they are trying their best means in solving the Rakyats’ needs and problems. 

• BINTULU: The treasurer-general of Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP) Dato’ Seri Tiong King Sing reminded Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) should not make the party a scapegoat if they failed to secure victories in the controversial seats of Ngemah and Belaga,. 
• He said SPDP had been making a lot of sacrifices for PRS, even the party president Datuk William Mawan had been persuading both incumbents in two constituencies, Gabriel Adit Demong (Ngemah) and Stanley Ajang Batok (Belaga) for the sake of State Barisan Coalition, resigning themselves from SPDP in order to join PRS, so that they could stand under the BN tickets in ninth Sarawak general election. 

• Independant incumbents of Ngemah Gabriel Adit Demong (Ngemah) is allegedly to have used the SPDP Office as his operation center. 

• Masing said he had also spoken to SPDP president Datuk William Mawan, who too agreed with him in the interest of the coalition and the proposed merger between SPDP and PRS, which has been put on the backburner for at least two years. 

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• Nomination: May 9, 2006 
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• BINTULU:People in Kemena have been urged to give their incumbent assemblyman Dr Stephen Rundi Utom another chance in the coming state election.  
• Bintulu Member of Parliament Dato' Seri Tiong Kin g Sing said they must not believe rumour mongers who claimed that Dr. Rundi had not performed his duties well since the election in 2001.  
• In 2001 Dr. Rundi (BN/PBB) contested against David Kimay (DAP), John Brian Anthony Jeremy Guang (IND) and Edward Galau Sigi (IND), Dr. Rundi polled some 6,830 votes, Kimay (998 votes),Guang (716) and Galau (88).  

• Tiong said the shortage of specialists had compelled many patients' families to send their loved ones to seek treatment in Kuching, Sibu or Miri General Hospital instead of local one, where according to them, lacking of medical specialists and equipments.  
• He also questioned the rationale of the Health Ministry that, for instant, upon five newly posted medical officers to Bintulu Hospital, six resident doctors would be transferred to other divisions or  states in the country.  

• BINTULU: The Ministry of Health will conduct a RM 1 Million study on Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD) at Rajang River here as soon as possible. 
• Health Minister Dato' Dr. CHua Soi Lek said the decision to study the disease was because it had caused the deaths of children in the State. 
• "We are very concernment about HFMD and even have brought the matter twice in the Cabinet.  The Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahamad Badawi had directed both the Ministry of Health Department to intensify the efforts on the problem, " he said. 

• BINTULU: The Ministry of Health has agreed to build for the Bintulu Hospital staff another 150 units of quarters at an estimated cost of RM 70 million under the Ninth Malaysia Plan (9MP). 
• This was the assurance given by the Minister Datuk Dr. Chua Soi Lek when answering to a request made Dato' Seri Tiong King Sing JP as well as Dr. Mohamed Hisham Abu Samah, the director of Bintulu Hospital during a briefing held at the hospital's conference room yesterday. 
• Currently, there are only 82 quarters for its 400 staff, and this, according to Dr. Mohamed is far from enough whereas the living standard in Bintulu is high, with a single-storey terrace house renting out at RM 600 per month. 

• 18/04/2006: Tiong fuming over the delayed project of SMK Sebauh 
• BINTULU : Member of Parliament for P216 Bintulu Dato Seri Tiong King Sing urged the Education Ministry to expediate the construction of new Sekolah Menegah Sebauh in the outskirt of Bintulu as the project had stalled since year 2000. 
• During his debate at Parliament session  yesterday( Monday), Tiong hoped officers at Education Ministry should be emphatic over the hardship the students undergoing whilst studying at the existing buildings which are prone to flooding whenever there was a heavy downpour. 

• 17/04/2006: Tiong questioned PETRONAS’s efforts in reducing unemployed undergraduates 
• BINTULU : National Petroleum Berhad or PETRONAS employed a total of 18,689 staff stationed in various parts of the county and among whom 1,653 or 8.8 per cent are based in Bintulu. 
• The figure was disclosed by Deputy Minister in Prime Minister's Department Datuk Abdul Rahman Suliman during his reply to question posed by Member of Parliament for P216 Bintulu Dato Seri Tiong King Sing during parliamentary sitting yesterday. 

 

•   06/04/2006: Government: Concerted Effort for better Public Services 

BINUTLU : The Government has always making concerted efforts to improve the delivery system of the government  services through various channels aimed at increasing integration and inter relationship among the general public or applicants.

Minister in Prime Minister "s Department Dato Seri Mohdmed Nazri bin Abdul Aziz this included the setting up of 'Portal General Service System or ‘mygovernment’ where the general public can log in a total of 884 websites where they can browse all the relevant government departments and agencies, be they  of the State or local governments.
 

•   01/04/2006:Tiong question the quality and standard of Bintulu-Miri coastal highways. 
• BINTULU: The Ministry of Works have implement the same methods and technologies used in the  of R-3 and R-5 rated road construction project for the construction of the Bintulu-Miri coastal highway project  which involved the area along Tanjong- Kidurong- Kuala Suai-Kuala Niah-Kuala sibuti and Bakam in Sarawak.  

The Deputy of Works Minister, Dato Mohamad Zin Mohamad said that the construction of Bintulu-Miri coastal highway which involved the cost of RM581 Million which was completed in November last year is R-3 rated project with the distance of 170 kilometer and still under the repair supervision period for two years which will be over in November 2007. 

31/03/2006:Nakhoda Institute to Upgrade the Usage of Modern Technology in Deep Sea Fishing
• BINTULU : The Ministry of Agriculture and Agro-Bases Industry is taking steps to help fishermen  to upgrade their knowledge on usage of modern technology with the introduction of certifcate courses offered at Nakhoda Institute based in Trengganu. 

The qualified ffishermen will be competent to go for  deep sea fishing  whilst capable of  operating of Global Positioning System(GPS)and Echo-Sounder  Device plus maintenance and servicing of mechanical engines of the fishing vessels.

  29/03/2006: Bureaucracy Turns Away Investors
• BINTULU : Foreign investors will gradually turning away from Malaysia if the practices of bureaucracy  or red tapes by various government departments are not improved. 

Member of Parliament for P216 Bintulu Dato Seri Tiong King Sing  pointed out countries like Thailand had shown sign of influx of investors from foreign countries as they found they need not have to undergo tedous and time consuming procedures as experienced in Malaysia.

  28/03/2006: Tiong urged to eliminate element of redtape in Parliament.

BINTULU:During the recently house of representatives presiding of the first meeting of the third session of eleventh Parliament session recently, the local Member of Parliament, Dato' Seri Tiong King Sing urged the government to reduce or eliminate the
 bureaucracy procedure or known as red tape in the government  department and agencies which described as no longer relevant in the current time. 

  22/03/2006: Tiong urged Police to Provide Quality Services to Rakyat
BINTULU: The local Member of Parliament, Dato' Seri Tiong King Sing urged the police enforcement body to carry out their duties effectively and to improve their quality of service where they should apply the skills and know ledges that they had gained from the police training academy in carry out their job. 

Tiong say this in his debate speech during the House of Representatives presiding of the first meeting of the Third Session of Eleventh Parliament session recently. 

• BINTULU : The State National Unity and Integration Department is to set up about 20 Voluntary Patrolling Corps to provide security and act deterrent in housing estates which are prone to criminal activities.  
• The Divisions earmarked for this scheme are Kuching, Sibu and Miri in addition to the existing nine such corps that have been established earlier.  
• Minister of Social Development and Urbanisation Datuk William Mawan anak Ikom said a committee would also be set up to deliberate on how to regulate the operation of the corps to ensure they did not overlap the enforcement agencies’ responsibilities or duties.  

Tiong King Sing said he was sad that his public advice to them in December last year as if falling into a deaf ear.

22/02/2006:Tiong: All means to pursue higher studies
• The local Member of Parliament, Dato Seri Tiong King Sing urged all parents from at the rural area to be more sensitive regarding the education needs of their children where they should  play their active role in encouraging their children to pursue their studies at the highest level. 

Putra Jaya: Do your research and be fully prepared before debating the Ninth Malaysia Plan in Parliament. This is the directive of the Prime Minister to Barisan Nasional MPs

16/02/2006: Adenan to focus on Sarawak elections

• Datuk Adenan Satem, who has now become the apparent successor to Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud, is concentrating on the preparation by the Barisan Nasional for the upcoming state elections.  

• PUTRAJAYA...Internal Security Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi today said that with immediate effect, it would be an offence for anyone to publish, import, produce, manufacture, circulate, distribute or possess the controversial caricatures...NST. 

02/02/2006: Tiong Warns Cable Thief Syndicate
 
• The local Member of Parliament, Dato' Seri Tiong King Sing today warned those who are involved with the syndicate responsible in stealing the Sesco cable and wires at the Kemena Bridge recently to back off. 

BINTULU: Eighty owners of native customary land (NCL) in Rumah Mamat Development Berhad plantation near Suai received a total of RM 154,0000 in dividends yesterday. Majority of the longhouse folks also members of Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP).
 

12/01/2006: MP Tiong's father passes away at 100

SIBU - The father of Dato' Seri Tiong King SIng, the Member of Parliament for Bintulu, has passed away at 5am yesterday at his residence at Jalan Bintulu Sibu. The late Tiong Kie Tong aged 100, leaves behind a wife Soung Yong Tie, four sons and four daughters to his demise.