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Larry Sng Wei Shien (), is a Taiwanese-born Malaysian
politician A politician is a person who participates in Public policy, policy-making processes, usually holding an elective position in government. Politicians represent the people, make decisions, and influence the formulation of public policy. The roles ...
who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for
Julau Julau is a town, and the capital of the Julau District (1703.39 square kilometres) in Sarikei Division, Sarawak, Malaysia. The district population (year 2020 census) i15, 333 The population is dominated by Iban as well as Chinese especially t ...
since May 2018. He 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 th ...
(MLA) for Pelagus from September 2001 to April 2011. He was previously the State Chairman of the People's Justice Party (PKR) of
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, a component party of the
Pakatan Harapan Pakatan Harapan (PH; stylised as HARAPAN; ) is a Malaysian Parliamentary group, political coalition consisting of Centre-left politics, centre-left political parties which was formed in 2015 to succeed the Pakatan Rakyat coalition. It has led ...
(PH) coalition. On 28 February 2021, he left PKR to become an
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again and declared support for the ruling
Perikatan Nasional Perikatan Nasional (PN; ) is a Malaysian Parliamentary group, political coalition consisting of Right-wing politics, right-wing and Far-right politics, far-right political parties. It is the second largest political coalition in Dewan Rakyat w ...
(PN) coalition. He is currently the President of
Parti Bangsa Malaysia ''Parti Bangsa Malaysia'', ( Malay for Malaysian Nation Party abbrev: PBM, is a registered political party in Malaysia. The party was founded as the Sarawak Workers Party before being handed over in November 2021. The party is currently repr ...
(PBM) and has served in this role since January 2022. Following the
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, he is presently the sole PBM MP and his party is aligned to the Unity Government.


Early life and education

Sng was born on 14 September 1979 in
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to a Sarawakian businessman-politician father Sng Chee Hua and Taiwanese-born mother Susan Sng. His father is the former one-term Julau MP from 1995 to 1999, two-term Pelagus assemblyman from 1991 to 2001 and a renowned corporate player. Meanwhile, his grandfather, Sng Chin Joo was also a Member of Parliament and Council Negri (now Sarawak State Legislative Assembly) member in 1963 and the
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in
Kapit Kapit is a town and the capital of Kapit District in Kapit Division, Sarawak, Malaysia on the south bank of the Rajang River. The district comprises 15,595.6 square kilometres and as of 2020, it has a population of 65,800. Kapit is accessib ...
in the mid-80s. Their family has a good long track record with the
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community in
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, having resided in Jalan Airport,
Kapit Kapit is a town and the capital of Kapit District in Kapit Division, Sarawak, Malaysia on the south bank of the Rajang River. The district comprises 15,595.6 square kilometres and as of 2020, it has a population of 65,800. Kapit is accessib ...
for a long time and are non-native fluent speakers of the local native
Iban language The Iban language () is spoken by the Iban, one of the Dayak ethnic groups who live in Brunei, the Indonesian province of West Kalimantan and in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. It belongs to the Malayic subgroup, a Malayo-Polynesian branch ...
despite being of ethnic unmixed full-blooded
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descent (since he is of paternal Teochew and maternal
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ancestry, for Datin Susan Sng was a
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married to Dato' Sng, who was a local-born Chinese of Teochew ancestry). Sng grew up in Kuala Lumpur and in England and studied at the
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.


Political career

Sng joined the Sarawak Native People's Party (PBDS) in 2001 when he was 22. He first stood on the PBDS ticket in 2001 state election, replacing his father as the Pelagus representative. He had served two terms as
Barisan Nasional Barisan Nasional (BN; ) is a political coalition of Malaysia that was founded in 1974 as a coalition of centre-right and right-wing political parties to succeed the Alliance Party. It is the third largest political coalition with 30 seats in ...
(BN) state assemblyman of Sarawak for Pelagus from 2001 to 2011. Under the Chief Minister
Abdul Taib Mahmud Abdul Taib bin Mahmud (; 21 May 1936 – 21 February 2024) was a Malaysian politician who served as the seventh Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Sarawak from 2014 to 2024 and the fourth Chief Minister of Sarawak from 1981 to 2014. He is referred to a ...
BN's administration in 2004, he was the Sarawak's youngest assistant minister when appointed the Assistant Minister in the Chief Minister's Office (Economic Planning) as well as Assistant Minister of Industrial Development (Planning). Sng joined the new
Parti Rakyat Sarawak Sarawak Peoples' Party ( Malay: ''Parti Rakyat Sarawak''; abbrev: PRS) is a multiracialist & nationalist political party in Sarawak. The party was founded in the wake of the de-registration of the Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak and later Sarawa ...
(PRS) in 2004 which was founded by
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and his father the senior Sng in the wake of the de-registration of PBDS and succeeded it as a component of BN. In 2006 state election, he retained his Pelagus seat as a PRS candidate. He had been the PRS deputy secretary general under the presidency of Masing until a leadership tussle between them resulted in the revocation of Sng's party membership for insubordination in 2007. In 2009, he was given additional portfolio of Assistant Minister of Youth (Training) albeit being a 'partyless independent' pro-BN status. He was subsequently dropped from contesting and defending the Pelagus state assembly seat under BN's banner in 2011 state election. Sng retained his position as the deputy chairman of Sarawak Convention Bureau (SCB) as well as Sarawak Convention Centre (now
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, BCCK) and was appointed Youth Affairs advisor to the Chief Minister Taib Mahmud's state government in 2012 amid his BN-friendly status. Sng resigned from all his government appointments in 2013 to assume the position of founding president of the just formed
Sarawak Workers Party ''Parti Bangsa Malaysia'', ( Malay for Malaysian Nation Party abbrev: PBM, is a registered political party in Malaysia. The party was founded as the Sarawak Workers Party before being handed over in November 2021. The party is currently repr ...
(SWP) which proclaimed to be BN-friendly too. In the 2013 general election (GE13), he contested as SWP candidate in Lubok Antu parliamentary seat but lost. In March 2016, while serving as the SWP party president Sng had initially planned to contest the newly created state constituency of Bukit Goram in upcoming 2016 state election, but later in April he unexpectedly resigned from the party instead thus renouncing his candidacy. He explained he has quits although he could have won because he felt he could not truly serve the constituents without being in BN in an emotional post on his
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. In the 2018 general election (GE14), Sng had contested as an
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candidate and elected the MP for the
Julau Julau is a town, and the capital of the Julau District (1703.39 square kilometres) in Sarikei Division, Sarawak, Malaysia. The district population (year 2020 census) i15, 333 The population is dominated by Iban as well as Chinese especially t ...
federal constituency by 10,105 of the 18,279 votes cast. He defeated
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the four-term incumbent and PRS deputy president. He joined the PKR which is part of new
Pakatan Harapan Pakatan Harapan (PH; stylised as HARAPAN; ) is a Malaysian Parliamentary group, political coalition consisting of Centre-left politics, centre-left political parties which was formed in 2015 to succeed the Pakatan Rakyat coalition. It has led ...
(PH) ruling coalition shortly after his victory in the election. He was picked during the PH's rules as chairman of the Malaysian Pepper Board (MPB) under the federal Ministry of Plantation Industries and Commodities from May 2018 to April 2020. Following the collapse of PH in the February 2020 Malaysian political crisis also dubbed as 'Sheraton Move', Sng was then appointed as the Sarawak chief of PKR left vacant by incumbent
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who had turned to be independent and joined
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(PSB). He announced on 21 December he was stepping down from the post only to retract it after persuasion including by
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later. Somehow in February 2021 he eventually quit PKR to revert to be an independent MP but supports the new Prime Minister
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and his led
Perikatan Nasional Perikatan Nasional (PN; ) is a Malaysian Parliamentary group, political coalition consisting of Right-wing politics, right-wing and Far-right politics, far-right political parties. It is the second largest political coalition in Dewan Rakyat w ...
(PN) administration. Sng explained that he just wanted a stable government and continued backing UMNO's
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as the new PN's Prime Minister following the resignation of Muhyiddin as the PN chairman on 16 August. Sng has been appointed as the new chairman of Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC), a GLC to promote the market expansion of Malaysian palm oil and its products with effect from 1 October. Together with Steven Choong, he announced the formation of Parti Bangsa Malaysia (PBM) on 19 November 2021. Sng was appointed as the chairman of the Malaysian Timber Industry Board on 5 May 2023.


Controversies


2018 Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) party elections

During PKR party elections in 2018,
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who has secured the presidency uncontested, hesitated to work with his elected deputy president and preferred on having his own line-up at the national level which led to a bitter contest of two divisive camps: Team
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against Team
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whereby Anwar supported the latter in the party polls. Sarawak PKR was affected too and the division reached its peak when the pro-Team Rafizi Julau PKR division headed by Sng suddenly gained a suspiciously high number of new members from 603 to 13,000 on 26 June. PKR president's support for Julau was obvious when PKR headquarters never took action against the Julau PKR division then.


2022 Parti Bangsa Malaysia (PBM) presidency dispute

On 26 May 2022, Zuraida Kamarudin resigned from BERSATU and applied to join PBM. Her membership was approved on 9 June and she was also appointed as the party's president-designate. The decision of the appointment was approved by the party's supreme council. Sng issued a statement on 2 October that he is still the party president and he has not resigned from the position due to the incoming 15th general election. On 8 October, 2022, Zuraida's faction announced that she was the new party president after a meeting was held by the party's supreme council. However, on 26 October, Sng announced that he is the legitimate party president according to the records of the Registrar of Society. On 2 November, after a meeting between Sng and Zuraida, PBM released a statement that Sng is recognised as the rightful party president.


Personal life

Sng was 27 years old when he married May Ting (born 1977), who was two years his senior, then aged 29, on 14 October 2006. Ting is a political science and economics graduate from the
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(NUS) and holds a master's in commerce from an Australian university. She is the eldest daughter of Sarawak business magnate cum construction tycoon, the late Tan Sri Dato' Paduka Ting Pek Khiing (known for his timber business and the
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project) and his second wife, Tan Sri Datin Paduka Chai Yu Lan. Outside politics, Sng is known for his
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(CSR) and community services. He runs the Larry Sng Education Fund which has given over RM1 million to less fortunate students from Pelagus and Bukit Goram areas in his hometown of Kapit to pursue higher education right after leaving school. Sng was once touted as Sarawak's richest MP after he declared his and his wife's assets to be around RM11.78 million to the
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(MACC) in November 2018.


Election results


Honours

* : ** Recipient of the 17th Yang di-Pertuan Agong Installation Medal (2024) * : ** Companion Class II of the
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(DPSM) – Datuk (2022)


See also

*
Julau (federal constituency) Julau is a federal constituency in Sarikei Division (Sarikei District, Pakan District and Julau District), Sarawak, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Dewan Rakyat since 1971. The federal constituency was created in the 1968 redistributi ...
* Pelagus (state constituency) *
Parti Bangsa Malaysia ''Parti Bangsa Malaysia'', ( Malay for Malaysian Nation Party abbrev: PBM, is a registered political party in Malaysia. The party was founded as the Sarawak Workers Party before being handed over in November 2021. The party is currently repr ...
(PBM)


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sng, Larry 1979 births Living people Malaysian people of Teochew descent Malaysian people of Hokkien descent Malaysian people of Taiwanese descent Politicians from Taipei Taiwanese emigrants to Malaysia Malaysian businesspeople Malaysian philanthropists Malaysian politicians of Chinese descent Malaysian political party founders Leaders of political parties in Malaysia Independent politicians in Malaysia Former People's Justice Party (Malaysia) politicians Parti Rakyat Sarawak politicians Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak politicians Members of the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly Alumni of the London School of Economics 21st-century philanthropists Malaysian MPs 2018–2022