Researching Tiong King
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Records of Tiong King on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Tiong King and the King Family Tree
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King Forums
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Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Tiong King. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Tiong King
Tiong Hiew King
Tan Sri Datuk Tiong Hiew King ( 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 New Guinea is the largest in that country. He also has interests in logging operations in Russia.
Tan Sri Datuk Tiong resides in Sibu, a town in Sarawak, of Borneo island that is part of Malaysia., with a net worth of about US$1.1 billion, Tiong is ranked by Forbes as the 1,999th richest person in the world. In April 2017, Tiong’s family confirmed that he was hospitalized after suffering a stroke.
Source: Tiong Hiew King, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaTiong Thai King
Datuk Tiong Thai King ( born 4 July 1945) is a Malaysian politician who served as Member of the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Dudong from May 2016 to December 2021 and Member of Parliament (MP) for the Lanang from April 1995 to May 2013. He is a member of the federal and state opposition Parti Sarawak Bersatu (PSB). Previously he was a member of the Sarawak United Peoples' Party (SUPP), a component party of the federal and state ruling Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) coalition and a former component party of the federal ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition.
Tiong was elected to Parliament in the 1995 general election. In 2004 he was appointed Chairman of the Sibu Municipal Council. He is also a former Senator. In the 2011 Sarawak election, he was nominated as the candidate for the Dudong constituency, but was defeated by Yap Hoi Liong of the Democratic Action Party (DAP) by 317 votes. He failed to defend his federal parliamentary seat at the 2013 general election, losing to Alice Lau Kiong Yieng of the DAP by 8,630 votes.
However, in the 2016 State election, he contested in the Dudong 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 (STAR), and 2 independent candidates, Casper Kayong Umping and Dato Sri Dr. Benny Lee.
Source: Tiong Thai King, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like King
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