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+{"img_link": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Ab_Rauf_Yusoh.png", "name": "Ab_Rauf_Yusoh", "overview": ["\n", "Datuk Seri Utama Ab Rauf bin Yusoh  (Jawi: \u0627\u0628 \u0631\u0624\u0648\u0641 \u0628\u0646 \u064a\u0648\u0633\u0641; born 20 September 1961) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the 13th chief minister of Melaka since March 2023 and Member of the Melaka State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Tanjung Bidara since November 2021. He served as Senior Member of the Melaka State Executive Council (EXCO) in the Barisan Nasional (BN) state administration under former Chief Minister Sulaiman Md Ali from November 2021 to his promotion to the chief ministership in March 2023 and Speaker of the Melaka State Legislative Assembly from May 2020 to October 2021. He is a Member of Supreme Council and Division Chief of Masjid Tanah of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a component party of the BN coalition. He has also served as the State Chairman of BN and UMNO of Melaka since July 2018.[1][2]\n", "On 11 May 2020, Ab Rauf was elected as Speaker of the Melaka State Legislative Assembly to replace Omar Jaafar of PH after BN took over the state administration from PH on 9 March 2020. On 4 November 2021, he announced that the assembly had been dissolved after Chief Minister Sulaiman lost the majority support in the assembly due to the withdrawal support for him as Chief Minister  by 4 MLAs.\n", "In the 2021 Melaka state election, Ab Rauf made his electoral debut and was nominated by BN to contest for the Tanjung Bidara seat replacing the retiring MLA Md Rawi Mahmud. In the tightly contested election, he garnered 3,559 votes in total and narrowly defeated Perikatan Nasional (PN) candidate Mas Ermieyati Samsudin who was also the Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department in charge of Parliament and Law as well as Member of Parliament (MP) for Masjid Tanah by a slim majority of only 364 votes.\n", " On 26 November 2021, Chief Minister Sulaiman appointed Ab Rauf as a Senior EXCO member for the portfolios of Investment, Industry, Entrepreneur Development and Cooperatives.[3] As the only Senior EXCO member, Ab Rauf was the de facto Deputy Chief Minister and second most powerful person in the state government of Melaka after Sulaiman. As the Senior EXCO member, Ab Rauf worked closely with the governmental organisations of the state such as Unit Perancangan Ekonomi Negeri (UPEN) Melaka, Malaysia Investment and Development Authority (MIDA), Perbadanan Kemajuan Negeri Melaka (PKNM) as well as other local and international private companies and corporations. He also helped the state to secure various development projects and direct investments. Among the notable ones is the Light Rapid Transit (LRT) railway network that applies the Magnetic Levitation (MagLev) technology and connects all the districts of the state.[4][5][6][7][8]\n", "On 31 March 2023, Ab Rauf was sworn in and appointed as the 13th Chief Minister of Melaka to take over Sulaiman[9] who was confirmed to resign as Chief Minister two days ago on 29 March 2023.[10] There were frequent speculations and rumours that Sulaiman was forced to resign as Chief Minister by Ab Rauf as well as Ab Rauf and Sulaiman had fallen out as the former who was the Melaka BN and UMNO Chairman was not appointed as Chief Minister after the 2021 state election, breaking the convention of the leader of the largest political coalition and party being appointed as the Chief Minister.[11] Instead, Melaka UMNO Secretary Sulaiman was reappointed.[12] However, both have also frequently denied the speculations and rumours. Before being appointed to the position, Deputy Prime Minister and BN Chairman Ahmad Zahid Hamidi explained that the decision of Sulaiman to resign was due to his \"health problems\", which have been questioned by many[13] and proposed only Ab Rauf to Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Melaka Mohd Ali Rustam to be appointed as the new Chief Minister.[14] His appointment also met criticisms from fellow BN Rembia MLA Muhammad Jailani Khamis who labelled him a \"backdoor\" Chief Minister. On the criticism of Jailani who broke rank with the party not to support him, he took the \"wait and see\" approach before deciding on any disciplinary actions against Jailani[15] and urged him not to be a \"hero\" who get cheap political publicity by breaking rank with the party and criticising him.[16] On the possibility of forming a coalition government with Pakatan Harapan (PH) by appointing PH MLAs to his EXCO, similar to the coalition government at the federal level, Ab Rauf added that he had yet to receive an indication from the central leadership of his party. He assured that his EXCO line-up would be finalised and unveiled in two days after discussions on it with Ahmad Zahid. He also pledged to make Melaka an investor-friendly state. He also noted that Melaka is the most politically stable state in Malaysia given that BN had gained a landslide victory in the 2021 state election. He characterised his upcoming EXCO lineup as inclusive and reflective of the coalition government at the federal level, indirectly confirming that his EXCO would consist of BN and PH MLAs and described it as pro-business and pro-reform.[17] Ahmad Zahid also indirectly confirmed it. On 1 April 2023, Ab Rauf directly confirmed it and asked the people to expect an exemplary, appealing and attractive EXCO lineup.[18] On 3 April 2023, Ab Rauf revealed that his EXCO will most likely be sworn in and appointed two days later on 5 April 2023 and the lineup had been accepted by Ahmad Zahid on 2 April 2023.[19] On 5 April 2023, his EXCO was sworn in. He retained 7 EXCO members of the Sulaiman II EXCO and appointed three new EXCO members. The lineup consists of 10 BN MLAs and only 1 PH MLA.[20] He also promoted Melaka UMNO Deputy Chairman Rais Yasin to Senior EXCO Member, a rank previously held by him, effectively making him the de facto Deputy Chief Minister and second most powerful person in the state government of Melaka after Ab Rauf and announced the reestablishment of the position of Deputy EXCO Member that was abolished in 2018.[21] He added that the 10 EXCO members would have a deputy respectively and the 10 Deputy EXCO members were to be unveiled on 6 April 2023. He also rubbished the allegations that the appointments of Deputy EXCO Members are wastes of resources and money as he wanted all MLAs to be given roles to work with him on developing the state. On 6 April 2023, he demoted Low Chee Leong and Zaidi Attan to Deputy EXCO Members. Both of them previously served as EXCO Members. Demotion is rare in the Malaysian politics. After announcing the lineup of Deputy EXCO Members, he invited the two Melaka Opposition and PN MLAs to join his government in an effort to form a unity government, which is a government that has no opposition and comprises all Melaka MLAs. If it is done, it would be the first ever unity government in Melaka and Malaysia.[22] He also added that he preferred finding similarities with Jailani than taking action against him. However, on 7 April 2023, his invitation was turned down by State Leader of the Opposition Mohd Yadzil Yaakub as they would like to check and balance the state government and not cross over for personal interests.[23]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c2/Datu_Patinggi_Abang_Haji_Abdillah.jpg/220px-Datu_Patinggi_Abang_Haji_Abdillah.jpg", "name": "Abang_Haji_Abdillah", "overview": ["\n", "Datu Patinggi Abang Haji Abdillah (13 October 1862 \u2013 21 November 1946) was a Malaysian politician in Sarawak who participated in the movement opposing cessation to the British Empire. He was the son of Datu Bandar Abang Haji Mohammad Kassim; who served as mayor of Kuching under the White Rajah's administration. He was also the grandson of Datu Bandar Abang Haji Bolhassan and a descendant of Datu Patinggi Ali who fought to achieve Sarawak's independence from Brunei. After the death of his father in Mecca, in 1921, he was given the title Datu Muda. In 1924, he became the Datu Bandar and then in 1937 he was given the title Datu Patinggi.\n", "\nAbdillah stated his support for the anti-cession movement of Sarawak as such:", "\"My people and I would never agree with the cession of Sarawak to the British Crown!...We cherish the independence of this state where we were born...\"\n", "\"Saya dan rakyat tidak bersetuju dengan penyerahan Sarawak kepada Tanah Jajahan Mahkota British!...Saya dan rakyat mencintai kemerdekaan negeri ini, tanah tumpah darah saya...\"\n", "In a meeting with British officials, he protested the cession of Sarawak to the British Empire; claiming that the cession was illegal as it was not accepted by majority of the Sarawakian. Abdillah was a major proponent of reinstating Anthony Walter Dayrell Brooke as the fourth White Rajah of Sarawak. However, the cession occurred and he resigned from the State Supreme Council in response. He then started to oppose the British government in his speeches; however, Abdillah opposed the use of violence to prevent cessation. All government officials in Sarawak, European and Asian alike, were sent Circular no.9, which stated that they would be fired if any of them continued to support the anti-cession movement. Perhaps following the footsteps of Datu Patinggi, many of the Sarawakian officials resigned from their posts. Abdillah continued to oppose the cession of Sarawak to Britain until his death in 1946.[1][2]\n", "As a community leader, Abdillah worked to establish good relations between the Dayaks and Malays. Unfortunately, after his death the anti-cession movement lost its momentum and quickly became disorganised without a leader. The violent techniques used by some anti-cessionists activists, such as assassinating colonial officials, decreased support for the movement. Britain ruled Sarawak until the formation of Malaysia on 16 September 1963. A school was built in his name to honour, Kolej Datu Patinggi Abang Haji Abdillah.\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Dato%27_Abdul_Rahman_bin_Andak.jpg/220px-Dato%27_Abdul_Rahman_bin_Andak.jpg", "name": "Abdul_Rahman_Andak", "overview": ["Dato' Sri Amar DiRaja Abdul Rahman bin Dato' Wan Andak DK SPMJ CMG (13 June 1859 \u2013 10 September 1930), was a campaigner for  Johor's independence when the British were trying to extend their influence throughout Malaysia. From modest origins, in 1878 he was recruited into the Johor Civil Service.[1] He was appointed State Secretary of Johor in 1893 and for twenty years he was adviser to Sultan Abu Bakar and Sultan Ibrahim.\n", "Abdul Rahman was the son of Andak bin Meng, a minor government official, with his first wife Hawa Binti Abdullah. When in 1871 the childless Maharaja Abu Bakar sent a nephew, Ungku Othman, to be educated in England Andak was sent too in recognition of his potential. Following his graduation Andak was recruited into the Johor Civil Service in 1878.[2]\n", "He became the Private Secretary to Maharajah Abu Bakar in 1884 and in 1885 he was selected by the Maharajah as one of his senior advisers to negotiate the Anglo-Johor Treaty with the British Governor Sir Frederick Weld. Under this treaty the British recognized Abu Bakar as Sultan of Johor and the Treaty became a buffer for Johor against further British colonial designs in the region. In  1886 Andak received the Order of the Crown of Johor (DPMJ) (Second Class) and the honorific title of Dato\u2019 Sri Amar DiRaja. Andak received the Order of the Crown of Johor (SPMJ) (First Class) in 1892 and was appointed State Secretary of Johor in 1893 with a seat on the State Council.\n", "For twenty years he was advisor to Sultan Abu Bakar (Sultan of Johor 1862-1895) and Sultan Ibrahim (Sultan of Johor 1895-1959). Andak's influence over Sultan Abu Bakar lead to the Sultan becoming increasingly reluctant to accept British advice. Andak drafted the Johor Constitution, the first to be written by any of the Malay States, and which became law in 1894.[1][2] He represented Johor on behalf of the sultan leading an entourage to the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago following an invitation from the United States Consul-General to Singapore Rounsevelle Wildman.[3]\n", "Andak was the founder of the Pakatan Belajar Mengajar Pengetahuan Bahasa (\"Language Knowledge Teaching Pact), a literary society which increased the usage of the Malay language and made it the official language of the government;[1] the body was also responsible for introducing neologisms expressing new ideas of governance brought with British influence.[4] It later became the Royal Society of Malay Literature of Johor.\n", "A Freemason, he was initiated into the Lodge of St George No 1152 in Singapore in 1889.[5]\n", "The British Government attempted to stop the government of Johor from receiving advice from its own Johor Advisory Board in London and also attempted to build a railway line across Johor. Seeing Andak as a threat to their plans, they also attempted to force his resignation. Cecil Clementi Smith wrote of him \"as a clever little fellow but an absolute nobody among the Malay aristocrats\". Other descriptions include \"corrupt\" and \"a mischievous little dog\". Frank Swettenham denigrated him as \u201ca bad adviser for anyone, quite unscrupulous... and dangerous because he speaks English and has to do with Europeans all his life.\" Eventually he was dismissed by Sultan Ibrahim and sent into forced exile in London in April 1909 with an annual pension of \u00a31,000. In England Andak oversaw the education of Sultan Ibrahim's sons Ismail (who succeeded his father as Sultan), Abu Bakar and Ahmad while they were attending schools in London.[1][2]\n", "Andak married twice, firstly to Che' Lembek, who died in 1885 and with whom he had a daughter, Rahmah. He later married Auguste \"Gustel\" Reis (died 1933), who after the marriage took the name of Auguste Abdul Rahman and lived with her in London where they had three sons, Henry, Mansor and Walter.\n", "He died in London on 10 September 1930 and was buried in the Muslim section of Brookwood Cemetery near Woking in Surrey. His wife died on 30 March 1933 and was buried beside him.\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Abdullah_CD_1989.jpg", "name": "Abdullah_CD", "overview": ["\n", "Cik Dat bin Anjang Abdullah (2 October 1923 \u2013 13 January 2024), commonly known as Abdullah CD, was a Malaysian politician who served as chairman and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM).[1]\n", "Abdullah was born on 2 October 1923 in Parit, Perak to Malay parents of Minangkabau descent.[2] His political involvement was sparked by interest in the Maharajalela Wars against the British.[3] As a young man, he joined the Kesatuan Melayu Muda (KMM). He became the secretary of the KMM in the Lambor district in Perak during the early stages of the Japanese Occupation.\n", "After World War II, Abdullah CD was involved in the setting up of the Malay Nationalist Party (or in Malay, the Parti Kebangsaan Melayu Muda / PKMM) in October 1945 with other early leftist Malay leaders such as Mokhtaruddin Lasso, Dr. Burhanuddin al-Helmy, Ahmad Boestamam, Ishak Haji Muhammad, amongst others.[4]\n", "\nHe was also responsible for organising the Malay labour movement and was elected as the vice-president of the Pan-Malayan Federation of Trade Unions (PMFTU).\n", "Not long before the declaration of emergency in Malaya in June 1948 by the British colonial government, Abdullah CD, Dr Burhanuddin Helmi and Ahmad Boestamam conducted a meeting to discuss the conditions and steps to be taken in the struggle for Malayan independence. When the British declared an emergency, Abdullah led many members from the CPM, PKMM, API (Angkatan Pemuda Insaf), AWAS and PETA into an anti-British guerrilla revolution in the jungles of Malaya. In July 1948, he was captured in north Pahang, but he managed to escape.\n", "On 12 May 1949, Abdullah started the 10th Regiment of the CPM in Temerloh, Pahang.[5]\n", "Abdullah was involved in many armed battles against the British and suffered serious injuries from a hand grenade explosion.[6]\n", "Abdullah CD continued to be the leader of the 10th Regiment until peace was achieved in 1989. [7]\n", "On 2 December 1989, he was one of the signatories of the peace agreement between the CPM and the government of Malaysia, finally ending the period of armed struggle.[8]\n", "Abdullah CD was married to Suriani Abdullah (n\u00e9e Eng Ming Ching), also a leader of the CPM in February 1955. They remained married in Sukhirin, Thailand until Suriani's death in 2013.[9]\n", "On 3 October 2023, Abdullah CD celebrated his 100th birthday, surrounded by well-wishers and former party members in the peace village in Sukhirin.[10] He died at the Sukhirin Peace Village in Narathiwat, Thailand on 13 January 2024.[11] He underwent a period of ailing health before his death.[12]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JLNZQ_w_ZlQ/So1T_-NkkaI/AAAAAAAAAFY/PN_ZsGYjj9A/s1600-h/Abu+Samah.jpg", "name": "Abu_Samah_Mohd_Kassim", "overview": ["Abu Samah Mohd Kassim (February 1926 - 7 April 2009) was one of central committee member of the Malayan Communist Party during 1975. He was an important Malay communist in the 1970s.\n", "Abu Samah was born in the district of Semantan, Temerloh, Pahang. Dato' Bahaman, a well-known Malay leader whom headed the rebellion against British intervention in politics and the administration of Pahang in 1891\u20131892, is his great-granduncle.\n", "During 1946, he joined the nationalist movement and became a member of the Parti Kebangsaan Melayu Malaya and Angkatan Pemuda Insaf. In 1948, he joined the armed struggle for independence through 10th Regiment, the Malayan National Liberation Army. Under the order of Malayan Communist Party, in 1953, he moved from the forest in Pahang to the south of Thailand until 1989, along with the 10th Regiment. From 1969 to 1976, he led the group of troops, around 40 people, to Hulu Kelantan. He had fought with the Malaysian military during Operasi Gonzales.\n", "At the age of 80, he settled in Sukhirin District, Narathiwat Province, southern Thailand, with Abdullah CD and the former members of the 10th Regiment, who chose not to return to Malaysia.\n", "\n", "This Malaysian biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it."]}
+{"img_link": "https://scontent.fkul8-3.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/317744563_123578803891089_5546336269546730471_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=efb6e6&_nc_ohc=Iic0IY9BbyMAX9pJGxW&_nc_pt=1&_nc_ht=scontent.fkul8-3.fna&cb_e2o_trans=q&oh=00_AfClAnb0Xjmt3IH3N2lfL46WYfLDZ13iODbssvlngLFMUw&oe=65AFC6ED", "name": "Adnan_Abu_Hassan_(politician)", "overview": ["Adnan bin Abu Hassan (born 17 February 1969) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kuala Pilah since November 2022. He served as Member of the Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Senaling from May 2018 to August 2023 and for Pilah from March 2008 to May 2013. He is a member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a component party of the BN coalition.[1]\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://scontent.fkul8-4.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/97321470_2711432489093460_9018077062576996352_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=dd63ad&_nc_ohc=jsQAJ3W060IAX_AKIGv&_nc_pt=1&_nc_ht=scontent.fkul8-4.fna&cb_e2o_trans=q&oh=00_AfCLvwimANkPwcT_3CqA9YtBro26DIk4GMLmklC37YERog&oe=65D299F8", "name": "Ahmad_Johnie_Zawawi", "overview": ["\n", "Ahmad Johnie bin Zawawi (born 1963) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Igan since May 2018. He is also the non-executive Chairman of Indah Water since 2020. He is a member of the Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB), a component party of the Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) and formerly Barisan Nasional (BN) coalitions.\n", "Johnie was born in Daro and obtained a bachelor's degree in political science from National University of Malaysia (UKM) in 1986.[1][2] He used to work at the Royal Malaysian Customs Department from 1988 to 2000 before becoming the Chief Operating Officer of The Sarawak Press and Warta Distributions (2000-2004), as well as WHS Holdings (2004-2015).[1]\n", "He contested for Igan as the then ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) candidate at the 2018 election and defeated the Pakatan Harapan (PH) candidate Andri Zulkarnaen Hamden.[3]\n", "On 13 May 2020, Johnie was appointed non-executive Chairman of Indah Water by the then Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin.[2]\n", "Johnie has three children with his wife.[1] He is of Melanau descent.[1]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://apicms.thestar.com.my/uploads/images/2021/04/04/1100897.jpg", "name": "Ahmad_Kamil_Jaafar", "overview": ["Ahmad Kamil bin Jaafar (27 August 1937 \u2013 3 April 2021) was a Malaysian politician and diplomat.[1]\n", "Jaafar was born in the Kulim District and attended Malay College Kuala Kangsar and the University of Malaya. He served as Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from April 1989 to August 1996 and was Ambassador of Malaysia to Switzerland, China, Japan, and Thailand.[2] He was then the Prime Minister's Special Envoy to the Non-Aligned Movement, where he was highly respected due to his English language proficiency.[3]\n", "On 30 March 2011, an exhibition of paintings by Malaysian ambassadors was displayed at the National Visual Arts Gallery in Kuala Lumpur, which included works owned by Jaafar.[4]\n", "Ahmad Kamil Jaafar died on 3 April 2021 at the age of 83.[5]\n", "\n", "This Malaysia diplomat-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it."]}
+{"img_link": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Tun-Ahmad-Zaidi-Adruce.jpg/440px-Tun-Ahmad-Zaidi-Adruce.jpg", "name": "Ahmad_Zaidi_Adruce", "overview": ["\n", "Ahmad Zaidi Adruce bin Muhammed Noor (29 March 1924 \u2013 5 December 2000) was the fifth Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Sarawak (Governor of Sarawak).[1] He was the longest-serving governor of Sarawak (in consecutive terms from a single appointment), from his inaugural in 1985, to his death in 2000.[2] He was also remembered as the first Sarawakian Bumiputera to receive a MA Degree from a British university (University of Edinburgh).[3]\n", "Ahmad Zaidi was born on 29 March 1924 to Muhammad Noor (father) and Siti Saadiah (mother) on a small boat on the Rajang River near Kampung Semop, Daro, Sarawak. His father was a farmer while his mother was a housewife.[4][5] He was adopted by descendents of Syarif Masahor (a Rajang basin chief that opposed Brooke rule from 1860 to 1862). Sharifah Mai was a daughter of Syarif Masahor. She has a unmarried daughter named Sharifah Dayang Aisah who later adopted Ahmad Zaidi. Sharifah Mai also has a childless son named Wan Abu Bakar Adruce.[4]\n", "Ahmad Zaidi Adruce was married to Hjh Hamsiah Bte Hj Ismail (born 22 November 1923) and had eight children. During his exile in Indonesia, he later married Toh Puan Datuk Patinggi Hajjah Rosmiati Kendati, and had four more children.[citation needed]\n", "At 5 years old, he was sent to two schools, Chung Hua and also Abang Ali in Sibu, where he developed interest in poetry, gymnastic and acting. At age 12 he passed his standard seven exam with exemplary marks \u2013 which at the time was an achievement far beyond what was expected of a young man born and raised in Sarawak. Ahmad Zaidi was an exceptionally bright student, who was always either first or second in class throughout his primary and secondary education. After his standard seven exam, he moved to Kuching to further his studies and joined St. Thomas school in 1936, where he graduated with a Junior Cambridge qualification in 1938. Out of 63 students, he was among the seven who passed \u2013 and of the seven, Ahmad Zaidi was the only bumiputera. He joined an Anglo-Chinese school in Singapore in 1938 and graduated in 1939 at 15 years old with a Cambridge School Certificate, and was at the time the only bumiputera to have achieved such an honour.\n", "In November 1940, Ahmad Zaidi joined the Sultan Idris College in Tanjung Malim, Perak, where he studied until the Japanese invasion in 1941, when he was forced to flee to Singapore. In 1942 he was sent to Java to study Veterinary Medicine at Buitenzorg College in Bogor. He did not complete his veterinary training when the war ended in 1945 and was instead pulled into fighting against the Dutch in Indonesia, where he witnessed first-hand the early days of the Indonesian National Revolution. In 1947, he returned to Sarawak where he was then appointed as a teacher at Batu Lintang Training Center. During that year he also set up the first Sea Scout movement in Borneo and took his students sailing as far as Tanjung Datu on the western tip of Borneo Island and as far north to the Saribas River, an enterprise that would later help him establish an intelligence and underground movement to assist the Republic of Indonesia in their guerilla warfare against the Dutch.\n", "In 1949, the British awarded Ahmad Zaidi a four-year Colonial Development and Welfare scholarship to further his studies at the Robert Gordons Technical College in Aberdeen before he was enrolled to the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom.[2] On 28 May 1953, he was invited to represent Sarawakian students to attend the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II where he also met with Temenggong Jugah. Ahmad Zaidi secured his MA degree in Political Economy in 1953 from the University of Edinburgh and later secured a Certificate in Education from the University of London in 1955. Upon his return to Sarawak, he was promoted to the post of supervisor at a training college and later became the acting president of the Barisan Pemuda Sarawak in 1956 which was an organisation that united the bumiputeras to work towards the independence of Sarawak. He met with Tan Sri Ghazali Shafie and later with Tunku Abdul Rahman to support the movement towards the formation of Malaysia.\n", "Ahmad Zaidi Adruce had a turbulent political career. His involvement in politics began in earnest while he was studying at Buitenzorg College (Current Bogor Agricultural University) in Bogor, then Japanese-occupied Netherlands East Indies (present-day Indonesia).[citation needed]\n", "Ahmad Zaidi was opposed to colonialist ideology, and the experiences of being discriminated while in the United Kingdom did little to endear his feelings towards the colonial government that ruled over his people. The buildup for the movement towards independence had become so intense that there were even plots to either arrest or assassinate Ahmad Zaidi for being a very public rebel to the colonial government. He knew that at that stage even if Sarawak was able to attain independence, the machineries for the new Malaysian government will mostly be influenced by those Sarawakians who had worked for the colonial government. In the transition phase towards the formation of a new government, he received insider information that some of the expatriates who worked under the colonial administration preferred that he be eliminated for fear of revenge if Ahmad Zaidi became in control. He was dubbed a traitor by British authorities and supporters including many of the expatriates in the Sarawak government because of his strong influence and involvement in Barisan Pemuda Sarawak and suspected connection with Indonesia during the Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation.[citation needed]\n", "He was then abducted from Sarawak by his sympathizers and later went into self-exile in Indonesia until he was given amnesty by the Malaysian government in 1969, a move strongly supported by Tun Abdul Rahman Ya'kub, where the latter was a federal minister at the time.[citation needed]\n", "After exiled for six months in Jakarta, Indonesia, Ahmad Zaidi was convinced that his troubles had died down. On 12 May 1969, he telephoned Normah Abdullah, the wife of chief minister of Sarawak at that time, Abdul Rahman Ya'kub to go back to Kuala Lumpur. However, Normah warned Ahmad Zaidi of brewing racial riots in Kuala Lumpur. The racial riots later developed into 13 May incident. Ahmad Zaidi returned to Kuching, Sarawak instead. Ahmad Zaidi also found that his step-father Wan Abu Bakar Adruce, Ahmad Zaidi's own son Bujang, and Anie Dhoby (brother of Rosli Dhoby) joined Sarawak National Party (SNAP). Stephen Kalong Ningkan, the former Sarawak chief minister and the leader of the SNAP party, invited Ahmad Zaidi to lead the Malay faction in the party. However, Ahmad Zaidi decided to retire from politics. Later, some members of the public still questioned him regarding his loyalty to Sarawak. Ahmad Zaidi again decided to take a break in the Java island, Indonesia.[4]\n", "In 1970s, Ahmad Zaidi became uneasy with the governing style of United Sabah National Organisation (USNO) on Sabah people. Ahmad Zaidi later developed good relationship with Harris Salleh, one of the leaders of the Sabah People's United Front (BERJAYA party). One month before the 1974 Malaysian general election, Ahmad Zaidi discovered a plot to kidnap Harris. Ahmad Zaidi informed Harris about the plot and the latter successfully escaped from the plot. In 1976 Sabah state election, although Ahmad Zaidi was a Sarawak cabinet minister, he openly campaigned for Harris's BERJAYA party. BERJAYA won the state election, ousting USNO from power. However, Harris involvement in Sabah politics gained animosity with several Sabah local leaders. They complained to chief minister of Sarawak Abdul Rahman Ya'kub. Later, Ahmad Zaidi found himself sidelined from Sarawak state politics. There were also rumours where Ahmad Zaidi would be replaced in his own Kalaka state constituency.[4]\n", "When the Ming Court Affair was brewing in 1985, Abdul Taib Mahmud, the chief minister of Sarawak at that time, decided to remove the governor Abdul Rahman Ya'kub from office due dispute between them. Yang di-Pertuan Agong (king) of Malaysia at that time, Sultan Iskandar met Ahmad Zaidi privately. The king ordered Ahmad Zaidi to raise his hand to recite an oath of allegiance to the country.[4]\n", "On 1 April 1985, Ahmad Zaidi Adruce was appointed as the fifth Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Sarawak (Governor) Sarawak before the Speaker at the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly.[4][6]\n", "On 2 April 1985, he also took the oath of office in front of then king. He held the office for 15 years, the longest-serving governor in any Malaysian state without a hereditary ruler (in consecutive terms from a single appointment).[citation needed]\n", "In 1974, while Ahmad Zaidi was taking a break in a family house in Bandung, Indonesia, he had a blackout and fractured his lumbar spine (lower backbone).[4]\n", "Ahmad Zaidi Adruce served three terms before passing on peacefully on 5 December 2000, leaving behind a lasting legacy as a true nationalist and as his people's first scholar.[7] He was given a state funeral and was buried at Samariang Muslim Cemetery, Petra Jaya, Kuching.[8]\n", "Several places were named after him, including:\n"]}
+{"img_link": null, "name": "Ali_Ahmad_(politician)", "overview": ["Dato' Ali bin Haji Ahmad (29 June 1930 \u2013 4 December 1977) was a Malaysian politician.\n", "Ali was first elected to Parliament when he won the Pontian Selatan seat in the 1964 Malaysian general election under the Alliance ticket, a seat he successfully defended in the 1969 Malaysian general election unopposed.\n", "Ali was the UMNO Division chief of Pontian after Pontian Selatan and Pontian Utara Parliamentary seat were merged before 1974 Malaysian general election.[2] In the election, he won the newly created seat, Pontian by a walkover.\n", "Ali was first appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to the then finance minister, Tan Siew Sin on 1965, in the third Tunku Abdul Rahman cabinet.[3] He continued as assistant to Tan Siew Sin to in the final cabinet of Tunku Abdul Rahman in 1969, and promoted to Deputy Finance Minister in the first cabinet of Tun Abdul Razak. His portfolio was switched to Deputy Minister of Home Affairs in the January 1973 cabinet reshuffle, after the admittance of Malaysian Islamic Party in the Alliance-led government.[4] In another Cabinet reshuffle on August the same year after the death of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Home Affairs Ismail Abdul Rahman, he was appointed as Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports,[5] a post he retains in the 1974 Razak cabinet after the 1974 election. He holds this position until 1976, when his portfolio was changed to Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development under the new prime minister Hussein Onn's cabinet, his final position in the government.[6]\n", "He was married to Datin Halimah Abdul Rahim, with 5 daughters.[7]\n", "On 4 December 1977, while he was still Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, he was one of the passengers killed in Malaysian Airline System Flight 653 plane crash at Tanjung Kupang,[8] along with his press secretary Hood Fadzil.[9] Ali was 47 years old.[7] He was returning to Kuala Lumpur after a visit to Perlis.[10]\n", "Parliament's Dewan Rakyat on the next day observed a minute silence before the start of meeting as a sign of respect of Ali and others who perished in the tragedy.[11][7]\n", "The remains of Ali was buried, along with remains of other victims of the crash, in a common burial site at Jalan Kebun Teh, Johor Bahru.[12]\n", "Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Dato` Ali Hj Ahmad, a secondary school in Pontian, Johor, is named after him.\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/ALIASGAR_WIKIPEDIA.jpg/220px-ALIASGAR_WIKIPEDIA.jpg", "name": "Aliasgar_Basri", "overview": ["\n", "Datuk Haji Aliasgar Bin Haji Basri (Jawi: \u0639\u0644\u064a \u0623\u0635\u063a\u0631 \u0628\u0633\u0631\u064a; born 25 February 1960) is a Malaysian politician currently living in Tuaran, Sabah, Malaysia. Aliasgar is an alumnus of Southern Illinois University.[1]\n", "Aliasgar was born in the town of Tuaran of Sabah. He is married to Datin Hajjah Jumiah bt Ele and has a son and four daughters.\n", "Besides contributing in politics, Aliasgar was also a radio presenter for  Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM).[2]\n", "Aliasgar is currently the Warisan Malaysia Executive Secretary, Warisan Tuaran P170 Division Chief and Board Of Director Member for University Malaysia Sabah ( UMS ).[3]\n", "Aliasgar started his education in Serusup Primary School of Tuaran in 1965. He continued his study at SMK Tuaran in 1971, and St John Secondary School, Tuaran in 1972 until 1976.\n", "In 1982, he continued his studies in Bachelor of Science Management at the College of Business and Administration of the Southern Illinois University and got his bachelor's degree on 15 May 1985.[4][1]\n", "In 1999, he continued his studies at the University Malaysia Sabah and completed his Master of Business Administration course on 12 September 2004.[5] He is among the first batch of 34 graduates to receive Master of Business Administration degrees from University Malaysia Sabah.[5]\n", "Aliasgar has been politically active since college, where he joined various student affairs organisations notably the North American Student Association or Persatuan Mahasiswa Amerika Utara (PEMAU) which covers both America and Canada. Aliasgar was the President of PEMAU in 1985.[6]\n", "Aliasgar was also among the founders of the first ever UMNO Club of the Malaysian political party UMNO in the USA. He was an exco for the Carbondale UMNO Club in the US from 1983 to 1986, during his studies at Southern Illinois University.\n", "In the snap 2020 Sabah state election, at the age of 60 years, Aliasgar Basri was fielded by his party, Sabah Heritage Party or WARISAN to face a 3 cornered fight in the N12 \u2013 Sulaman state seat under the P170 Tuaran parliamentary seat, but lost.[7]\n", "Aliasgar fought a three cornered fight between incumbent Assemblyman for Sulaman Hajiji Noor leader of the PN (BERSATU) and later became the Chief Minister and Rekan Stan from Love Sabah Party (PCS) in the recent state election.[8]\n", "In the 1990 election, at a young age of 29 years old, Aliasgar was fielded by his party, Sabah People's United Front or BERJAYA to face a 7 cornered fight in the N11 \u2013 Sulaman state seat under the P137 Tuaran parliamentary seat, but lost.[9][10]\n", "Aliasgar became one of the 20 Pro tem committee members (Malay:AJK Penaja) of the newly formed UMNO Sabah in 1991. He was also the UMNO Tuaran Division committee member (Malay: AJK Bahagian) and appointed as the UMNO Tuaran Division Youth Secretary (Malay:Setiausaha Pemuda Bahagian).\n", "In 1994, Aliasgar was appointed as the Deputy Director General of the People's Development Leaders\u2019 Unit (Malay: Unit Pemimpin Kemajuan Rakyat, UPKR) under the Chief Minister's Department of Sabah.[11]\n", "In 1996, Aliasgar was appointed as the Director General of the People's Development Leaders\u2019 Unit (Malay: Unit Pemimpin Kemajuan Rakyat, UPKR) under the Chief Minister's Department of Sabah.[11][12][13]\n", "In 1998 party elections, Aliasgar contested for the UMNO Tuaran Division Youth Chief post (Malay: Ketua Pemuda Umno Tuaran) and won. He held the post until 2001.\n", "Due to a major shuffle in the UMNO Malaysia Youth Movement in 1999, Aliasgar was appointed as the UMNO Sabah State Youth Information Chief (Malay :Ketua Penerangan Pemuda UMNO Sabah).[14]\n", "In 2000, Aliasgar was appointed as committee member of the Malaysia Youth Executive Council (MBM).[15]\n", "In the 2001 party elections, Aliasgar contested for the UMNO Tuaran Division Vice Chief (Malay: Naib Ketua Bahagian Tuaran), but lost.\n", "In the 2004 party elections, Aliasgar contested for the UMNO Tuaran Division Deputy Chief (Malay:Timbalan Ketua Bahagian) and won.[16] He defeated former Divisional UMNO Chief af Tuaran, Datuk Yusof Manan.\n", "In the 2007 party elections, Aliasgar contested for the UMNO Tuaran Division Deputy Chief (Malay:Timbalan Ketua Bahagian) and won. He defeated  Dato' Rahman Dahlan for the post.[16]\n", "In 2007, Aliasgar was appointed as the Secretary of Sabah UMNO Training Bureau (Malay: Setiausaha Biro Latihan UMNO Sabah).\n", "In 2007, Aliasgar was appointed as the UMNO Malaysia Training Bureau committee member (Malay: Ahli Jawatankuasa Biro Latihan UMNO Malaysia). During this time, he was involved in conducting more than hundred training courses around Malaysia.\n", "In the 2010 party elections, Aliasgar contested to defend his post the UMNO Tuaran Division Deputy Chief (Malay: Timbalan Ketua Bahagian Tuaran). Aliasgar defeated Dato' Rahman Dahlan for the post.\n", "However, in the 2013 party elections, Aliasgar decided not to defend his post and subsequently 'gave way' to Dato' Rahman Dahlan to win the post unopposed.[17]\n", "In the 2020 Sabah state election, Aliasgar Basri was fielded by his party, Sabah Heritage Party or WARISAN in the N12 \u2013 Sulaman state seat under the P170 Tuaran parliamentary seat.[18]\n", "In the 2022 party elections, Aliasgar contested for the WARISAN Tuaran Division Chief (Malay:Ketua Bahagian) and won. He defeated defending Chief, Rakam Sijim for the post and won with more than half majority.[16]\n", "In 2023, Aliasgar was appointed as the Warisan Malaysia Executive Secretary (Malay: Setiausaha Kerja Pusat). [16]\n", "Aliasgar has been appointed as a member of the University Board Of Director of Universiti Malaysia Sabah ( UMS ) on 16 August 2023. [19]\n", "Upon recommendation by the Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Dato' Yusof Apdal, he believes Aliasgar's experience and knowledge will be beneficial to help the Board.\n", "Aliasgar is one of the 13 Fellows from The Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia  of the Islamic Leadership Fellows Program, organised by Asian Institute of Management, Manila (AIM), with the collaboration of British Embassy in the Philippines. He was nominated by his alma mater Universiti Malaysia Sabah to participate in the program.[13]\n", "Aliasgar is an active member of the Malaysia Youth Council (Majlis Belia Malaysia) in the 1990s during his early days while active in national politics. He is now an alumnus of the Alumni Majlis Belia Malaysia (Sabah) and currently holding the position of Vice President II for his alma mater.[20]\n", "Aliasgar is an active member of the United Sabah BUMIS Organization (USBO) an organisation for the Bajau and other indigenous ethnic groups in Sabah. He is currently holding the position of Deputy President II for USBO. TS DSP Pandikar Amin Mulia delivered the letter of appointment to Aliasgar on 20Apr 2017.[21]\n", "Aliasgar is an active member of the Radio Sabah Alumni Association (RASA) the alumnus group for Radio Televisyen Malaysia ex personnels. He is currently holding the position of Vice President for RASA.[2]\n", "Aliasgar is an active member of the UMS Alumni Association or Pertubuhan Alumni UMS and was holding the position of Deputy President for his alma mater, University Malaysia Sabah.[22]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://idirektori.penang.gov.my/wakilrakyat/N.11%20(PUTIH).png", "name": "Amir_Hamzah_Abdul_Hashim", "overview": ["Amir Hamzah bin Abdul Hashim is a Malaysian politician from PAS. He is a member of Penang State Legislative Assembly representing Permatang Pasir since 2023.\n", "Amir Hamzah is currently the Deputy Chief of PAS Permatang Pasir branch.[1]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://www.utusanborneo.com.my/sites/default/files/images/article/20200807/sdk-ub070820-yt-warisan-p1.jpg", "name": "Arifin_Asgali", "overview": ["\n", "Arifin bin Asgali is a Malaysian politician who has been the State Assistant Minister. He served as the Member of Sabah State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Sekong from May 2018 until September 2020. He is a member of the Sabah Heritage Party (WARISAN).[1][2]\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://malaysiaaktif.my/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/IMG-20190308-WA0019.jpg", "name": "Assaffal_P._Alian", "overview": ["\n", "Assaffal bin P. Alian is a Malaysian politician who has served as Member of the Sabah State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Tungku since May 2018. He served as the State Assistant Minister of Tourism, Culture and Environment of Sabah in the Heritage Party (WARISAN) state administration under former Chief Minister Shafie Apdal and Minister Christina Liew Chin Jin from May 2018 to the collapse of the WARISAN state administration in September 2020. He is a member of WARISAN.[1][2]\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Dr._Ationg_Tituh.jpg/170px-Dr._Ationg_Tituh.jpg", "name": "Ationg_Tituh", "overview": ["\n", "Ationg Tituh is a Malaysian politician from Sabah region. He is the one who established and started the Parti Gagasan Rakyat Sabah (GAGASAN), and also the inaugural president of the local party on 28 August 2013.[2][3][4][5][6][7] His political party is among the 20 official political parties registered in 2013.[8][9]\n", "He began his political career as organization founder of Sabah Gagasan Rakyat Party in 2013 and he is very well known among Kinabatangan people as the \"first ever president\" of the local party that based in Kinabatangan, The Sabah Gagasan Rakyat Party in it's establishment in 2013 (Headquartered in Kota Kinabalu). He is also an organization founder of several Sabahan local Non-governmental organization. In 2018 to 2020, he began his action as political candidate for the Sabah elections after his party got well recognised after many contributions.[10][11]\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Awang_Tengah_Ali_Hasan.jpg/220px-Awang_Tengah_Ali_Hasan.jpg", "name": "Awang_Tengah_Ali_Hasan", "overview": ["\n", "Datuk Amar Haji Awang Tengah bin Ali Hasan (Jawi: \u0627\u0648\u0627\u06a0 \u062a\u06a0\u0647 \u0639\u0644\u064a \u062d\u0633\u0646; born 2 December 1956)[1] is a Malaysian politician who has served as Deputy Premier of Sarawak since May 2017 and Member of Sarawak State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Bukit Sari since April 1987. He currently also holds the portfolio of Second Minister for Natural Resources and Urban Development and Minister for International Trade and Investment under the administration of Premier Abang Abdul Rahman Johari Abang Openg. Previously, he had also held other cabinet posts under previous premiers Abdul Taib Mahmud and Adenan Satem. Awang Tengah is a member of the Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB), a component party of the ruling Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) coalition.[2]\n", "Awang Tengah previously served as chairman of the Board of Management at the Sarawak Timber Industry Development Corporation. He also served as the Director of the Sarawak Timber Industry Development Corporation.[3]\n", "He is currently the Deputy Premier of Sarawak to fill the vacancy after former Deputy Chief Minister Abang Johari Tun Openg has been appointed as the Premier of Sarawak, other portfolios he is currently serving are Minister of International Trade & Industry, Industrial Terminal & Entrepreneur Development Sarawak and Second Minister of Urban Development and Natural Resources.[4]\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Yang_Berhormat_Raja_Azam.jpg/220px-Yang_Berhormat_Raja_Azam.jpg", "name": "Azam_Kamaralzaman", "overview": ["Raja Azam bin Raja Kamaralzaman (13 July 1918 \u2013 1999), simply known as Raja Azam, was a Malaysian nobleman and politician whom formerly held the position of state secretary of Negeri Sembilan from 1960 to 1962, and State Secretary of Brunei from 1962 to 1964.[1]\n", "On 13 July 1918 Raja Azam was born in Kuala Dipang, Perak.[2] He was the lone child of Raja Nasibah binti Raja Ismail and Raja Di-Hilir Kamaralzaman ibni Raja Mansur. He attended the Malay College in Kuala Kangsar, where his father also received his education, and where he served as head boy. He claimed, \"From the start, we knew that we were being groomed for administrative positions,\" in a 1996 interview with the Sunday Star. A foundational course was given to him, including history, math, and English. After earning his Senior Cambridge in 1938 he continued his education at Raffles College in Singapore, where he graduated with a certificate in administrative studies.[3]\n", "Raja Azam started his career in the administrative service in 1942, and the Taiping Land Office was one of his first employers. He had stated in the aforementioned interview that a government worker was supposed to be adaptable and that \"(one) had to know the law very well as administrators often beckoned the role of magistrates.\" He was integrated into the Malayan Civil Service (MCS) by 1952. Raja Azam has previously held the positions of District Officer in Kuala Langat, Selangor, and Commissioner of Lands and Mines in Perlis. Following independence, he served as the State Secretary of Negeri Sembilan from 1960 to 1962 under the tutelage of Tuanku Abdul Rahman and Tuanku Munawir. From 1962 to 1964, he served as the State Secretary of Brunei at the invitation of Sultan Sir Omar Ali Saifuddien III to assist in the development of the Brunei civil service.[3]\n", "As a representative of the Sultan of Brunei he officiated the opening of the Temburong District's penghulu and ketua kampong course on 11 July 1963. Residents of the district presented him gifts. Accompanied by Jaya Rajid, he was given an introduction by the district officer to the participants in the course, held in Bangar.[4] On 20 January 1963, he left Brunei for Malaya by plane after assisting the Bruneian government for two years. The Sultan and other officials sent their farewell at Berakas Airport, with Yusuf Abdul Rahman taking over his position.[5]\n", "From 1967 until 1971 Raja Azam served as Secretary-General in the Ministry of Transport before returning to Malaysia. \u00a0Tun Abdul Razak asked him to leave the Ministry of Transportation so that he could head the Port Swettenham (now Port Klang) Authority from 1971 to 1977. Later, in 1978, he became the director of Keretapi Tanah Melayu.[3]\n", "In 1999 Raja Azam died.[3]\n", "Raja Azam was married to Raja Fatimah binti Raja Zainal Azman, the granddaughter of Raja Sir Chulan.[2] He was the father of three daughters and five sons.[3]\n", "Raja Azam earned the following honours;[2][6]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://scontent.fkul8-3.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-1/275049639_349384640528968_771352999816831167_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_s320x320&_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=596444&_nc_ohc=kx5lK9WnJPcAX_kvuwF&_nc_pt=1&_nc_ht=scontent.fkul8-3.fna&cb_e2o_trans=q&oh=00_AfCewEklU_rP5WiA8OL8N8LKwA0BbUfuZvr4zOKL7Az3DA&oe=65B11DFE", "name": "Azli_Yusof", "overview": ["Azli bin Yusof[1] (Jawi: name \u0627\u0632\u0644\u064a \u064a\u0648\u0633\u0641; born 15 March 1967) is a Malaysian politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Shah Alam since November 2022. He served as Political Secretary to former Minister of Federal Territories and Shah Alam MP Khalid Abdul Samad from July 2018 to February 2020, Member of the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) Advisory Board from 2018 to 2020, Member of the Shah Alam City Council (MBSA) from 2009 to 2012 and again from 2014 to 2015. He is a member of the National Trust Party (AMANAH), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition. He has also served as Deputy State Chairman of AMANAH of Selangor since 2019 and Division Chief of AMANAH of Shah Alam since 2016. \n", "During his terms as both DBKL Advisory Board and MBSA Member, Azli involved in various key standing committees including Finance Committee, Engineering and Building Committee, One Stop Centre (OSC) Committee, Internal Audit and Assessment Committee, Smart Cities Committee and Licensing and Enforcement Committee. He also served as Chairman of Residence Representative Council for Zone 1 covering Section 2, 3, 4, 14 and Shah Alam City Centre and Zone 6 covering Section 17, 18 and Padang Jawa.\n", "4\n", "Director of Project Southeast Asia Region, DEXION ASIA\n", "Azli obtained his BSc in Engineering Management from University of Missouri-Rolla USA (1990), and MBA in Logistics Management from UNISEL (2010).\n", "Azli has over 25 years of global industry experience in project management & industrial design in construction industry and logistics. He is tasked to handle combined projects worth more than RM100 million a year serving as Director of Southeast Asia Region with DEXION ASIA.\n", "Azli was appointed as Nazir of Masjid Jamek Tun Raja Uda, Section 16 Shah Alam in 2012, and Imam for Surau At-Taqwa Section 7 Shah Alam. He was also founder and member of Board of Trustees for Sekolah Rendah Islam Pintar, Shah Alam since 1999. He co-founded Muslim Care Malaysia, a borderless humanitarian NGO in 2005 and later in 2014 he co-founded Salam Relief which is also another humanitarian- based NGO. He is actively involved in various domestic humanitarian activities in Shah Alam as well as throughout Selangor and other States. He also participated in international relief missions such as during Tsunami in Acheh, Sumatera and earthquake in Bantul Jogjakarta.\n", "Official Website\n"]}
+{"img_link": null, "name": "R._G._Balan", "overview": ["R. G. Balan (born 22 November 1921, date of death unknown) was of the Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army. He worked underground in Tapah-Kampar area as a Communist Party of Malaya's Tamil publicist during the Japanese occupation of Malaya.[1]  He was a close friend with Abdullah CD and Suriani Abdullah, whom both of them were also active members of Communist Party of Malaya.\n", "Balan was born Raja Gopal in Nova Scotia Estate, Teluk Intan on 22 November 1921, to a Ceylonese father and an Indian mother.[2]\n", "Balan had a son, Gunallan. His mother was V. Sinnathayamma. He had a brother, Thirunoyam and a sister, Suppammal. His father died in 1958.[3]\n", "R. G. Balan died prior to February 2002.[4]\n", "In 1947, R.G Balan, along with Rashid Maidin and Wu Tien Wang,  attended the Communist Parties Conference  of Commonwealth Nations in London, as representatives of the Communist Party in Malaya. After his return, he organised the Perak Rubber Labourers Union. R.G. Balan remained as a labour organiser until he was detained without trial by the colonial authority on 30 May 1948 and not released until 1961.[5]\n", "In 1955, while he was under detention, R.G. Balan was appointed a vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Malaya. They first met R.G. Balan in Ipoh immediately after the war had ended, when most of the underground party members emerged as victors of the Pacific War in Malaya.\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://www.rtm.gov.my/images/gambar_direktorat/tv/Seksyen%20Program%20Studio/27_Abdul%20Aziz.JPG", "name": "Abdul_Aziz_bin_Husain", "overview": ["Abdul Aziz bin Dato Haji Husain (born 18 July 1950 in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia) is the current Chairman of Eksons Corporation Bhd,[1] a public listed entity that has two plywood plants in Sabah and Sarawak. He is involved in the real estate sector through Eksons' subsidiary Atmosphere Sdn Bhd.\n", "Bin Husain's last post in the public sector was group managing director of Sarawak Energy Berhad,[1] which he held after his retirement as State Secretary of the Sarawak Civil Service in December 2006. Before being appointed as the group MD, he was the chairman of the group executive management committee as well as the director of the company.\n", "Abdul Aziz bin Husain is his name on the original birth certificate issued by the Registrar of births and deaths. The registrar had recorded the child's father's name on the document as Husin bin Haji Paris, and the person who reported the birth as Hussain bin Haji Paris.\n", "Bin Husain went to Sekolah Raayat (1955\u201361) for his primary school education, and Maderasah Melayu and Green Road Government Secondary School for his secondary education. He passed the Senior Cambridge Exam with a grade 1. He then attended St. Thomas's School Kuching (1967\u20131968) for Sixth Form, where he obtained the Full HSC Certificate in 1968. After a one-year teaching stint, he was admitted to the University of Malaya in 1970 on the Education Ministry Scholarship. Bin Husain earned a Bachelor in Economics, majoring in Business Administration in 1973. He obtained a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) with an emphasis on Finance in 1979 from Syracuse University in New York. While there, he studied in the Federal Public Service Department on a service training scholarship.\n", "For his service to Sarawak, particularly in the areas of economics and human resource development, Swinburne University conferred upon bin Husain the Honorary Doctor of University Degree in October, 2008 in a graduation ceremony held in Melbourne, Australia.\n", "Amar Abdul Aziz was married to the late Fredahanam Mahmud, a business executive. He has five children. He also has three grandchildren.\n", "Amar Abdul Aziz started his career in the Sarawakian civil service as an assistant secretary with the Industries division of the state planning unit on July 23, 1973.  After obtaining his MBA from Syracuse University, he was promoted to principal assistant secretary of the state financial secretary's office, Finance Section in August, 1979.  He was then named Deputy Chairman of the SEDC in September 1981, a post which he held until January 1987. As Deputy Chairman, he ran the day-to-day operations of the Corporation.\n", "While in SEDC, Bin Husain helped with the formation of the Bumiputra Entrepreneur Development Unit, which assisted Bumiputra entrepreneurs in the fields of trade and commerce. He also helped start the computerization of SEDC.\n", "Bin Husain was transferred back to state service in Sarawak, and became deputy state financial secretary in January, 1987. In May 1990, he was appointed the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Infrastructure Development. He commissioned, among other things, the artesian wells for the coastal areas, as well as small gravity feed projects in interior areas. He planned the Kuching barrage, which now controls the tide level of the Sarawak River. The project, which has been proven effective in preventing the monthly flooding of the low-lying areas in Kuching, inhibits salt water intrusion and reduces erosion of the river banks.\n", "Bin Husain served as a senior administrative officer in the Sarawak State Secretary\u2019s office in September 1993 before being appointed the deputy state secretary in charge of Human Resources in January, 1994. He was officially appointed to the post of State Secretary of Sarawak on August 25, 2000,[2] a post which he held until December 31, 2006.\n", "Bin Husain has also served on various governments boards, statutory bodies, port authorities, charitable trusts, and government-linked companies. He was elected president of the Asia Pacific Region Training and Development Organization (ARTDO) in August, 1995 at the ARTDO\u2019s Council Meeting in Melbourne, and re-elected for 1996/1997 in Manila.  As the Chairman of ARTDO, bin Husain has conducted seminars and lectures in Human Resources at various national and international venues.\n", "Bin Husain was involved in the Askar Wataniah (Malaysian Army Reserve Force) until his retirement. After attending intensive military training at Puswatan, Ipoh in 1995, he won the award for best recruit officer, and was conferred the post of Major. Bin Husain was subsequently promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel and given the command of the First Battalion Regiment 511. He was again promoted to colonel in 2000, becoming the Commander of Regiment 511 AW.  Bin Husain was again promoted, to the rank of brigadier general, and retired from the army in 2010.  While he was State Secretary, bin Husain was also Chairman of Jawatankuasa Pendukong Askar Wataniah (JAKPAW).  During his tenure in the AW, he expanded the size of the regiment and recruited over 120 new officers, primarily from the civil service.\n", "For his work in the Askar Wataniah, bin Husain was conferred the Panglima Angkatan Tentera (PAT) by the Yang di-Pertuan Agung in 2000.\n", "In the field of education and human resource development, bin Husain is currently Chairman of the Sarawak Skill Development Centre (PPKS),[3] being first elected to the post in March 1999.  When he started, PPKS was a small training centre offering a few technical courses with fewer than 100 students. Today, PPKS has over 200 staff and over 2000 students offering certificates and diploma programs. It also has joint study agreements with other institutions of learning, both in Malaysia and overseas.\n", "Bin Husain is Chairman of PPKS Ilmu Sdn Bhd,[4] a wholly owned subsidiary of PPKS which has set up the International College of Advance Technology Sarawak (ICATS) to conduct programs at the diploma level and higher.  With the acquisition of the INTI Campus, ICATS will have the capacity to accommodate up to 3000 students.\n", "Bin Husain was the first chairman of Swinburne Sarawak Sdn Bhd, which manages the Swinburne University Sarawak Branch Campus. He helped in the development of the Swinburne New Campus at Simpang Tiga and oversaw the construction of new campus facilities. Currently, he sits as a member of the University Council.\n", "Bin Husain has been the Chairman of Angkatan Zaman Mangsang (AZAM) since March 1998, and was the founder of its sister organization Sarawak Development Institute (SDI), which was established in 1995 with a mission to provide independent and objective inputs to the State. SDI and AZAM conduct about 20 seminars and workshops yearly, covering various current issues.\n", "He was the President of Sarawak Club, the oldest club in Malaysia, having held the post from September 2002 until 2009. Under his presidency, the club started building its own golf course at the Unimas Campus site. He oversaw the reconstruction of the Sarawak Club building, which was destroyed by a fire in July 2006.\n", "Bin Husain is also the Chairman of Persatuan Bagi Kebajikan Kanak-Kanak Terencat Akal Sarawak (PERKATA), a Sarawak organization for mentally retarded children, being first elected to the position in January 2001.\n", "In sports, bin Husain has been the President of the Sarawak Badminton Association (SBA) since 2003, and sits as one of the Vice Presidents of the Malaysian Badminton Association.[5] He is also the President of the Persatuan Badminton Bumiputra Sarawak, a post which he has held since 1985.\n", "Bin Husain played an active role in cooperative development in Sarawak as the President of KOPPES (The SEDC Cooperative), which he help to form in 1986. KOPPES is currently rated in the top 100 cooperatives in Malaysia. Under his leadership, KOPPES has grown, and has many activities including land development, education, and health services. Bin Husain received the \u201cAnugerah Tokoh Koperasi, Negeri Sarawak\u201d in 1997 for his  contribution and role in cooperative development in the state.\n", "Bin Husain is also the President Of HIKMAH (formerly BINA), being elected to that post in 2005 after holding the post of deputy president of the organization since 2000. He had also been a member of the BINA Supreme Council since 1991. For his service in HIKMAH and the Muslim community, bin Husain was awarded the Tokoh Khas Maal Hijrah [6] in October 2013 by the TYT in Sibu.\n"]}
+{"img_link": null, "name": "Chen_Tien", "overview": ["\n", "Chen Tien or Chen Tian (simplified Chinese: \u9648\u7530; traditional Chinese: \u9673\u7530; pinyin: Ch\u00e9n Ti\u00e1n) (25 August 1923 - 3 September 1990) was the head of the Central Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM).\n", "Chen was present during the Baling Talks, along with the CPM's secretary-general Chin Peng and senior leader Rashid Maidin, to discuss the resolution of the Malayan Emergency. On the other side were three elected national representatives; Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tan Cheng Lock and David Marshall. The talks took place in the Government English School at Baling on 28 December 1956. However, the talks were unsuccessful because the surrender terms were not acceptable to the Malayan Communist Party and because of disagreement over the legalising of CPM as a political party in Malaya. A few weeks after the Baling talks, Tan Siew Sin, the president of the Malayan Chinese Association (MCA) received a letter from Chen Tien, requesting a resumption of peace talks and the repeal of the emergency regulations, which he rejected.[1] In 1960, when the emergency was officially declared at an end, Chen Tien, Chin Peng and other communists continued their rebellion.\n", "After the talks, Chen Tien then left the party while Chin Peng remained. He moved to China and spent his later life in the country where he married Lee Meng in 1965, the female notorious leader of the CPM who had been banished a year before. Chen died due to lung cancer on 3 September 1990.[2]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1e/Chin_Peng.jpg/220px-Chin_Peng.jpg", "name": "Chin_Peng", "overview": ["\n", "Chin Peng[a] (21 October 1924 \u2013 16 September 2013[3]), born Ong Boon Hua,[b] was a Malayan communist guerilla leader and politician, who was the long-time leader of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) and the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA).\n", "During World War II, he fought as an anti-colonialist guerrilla in the Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army against the Japanese occupation of Malaya. He led the party's guerrilla insurgency in the Malayan Emergency (1948\u20131960), fighting against British and Commonwealth forces in an attempt to establish an independent socialist state. After the MCP's defeat and subsequent Malayan independence, Chin waged a second campaign (1968\u20131989) from exile against the newly formed government of Malaysia in an attempt to replace its government with a socialist one. This second insurgency came to an end with the Peace Agreement of Hat Yai 1989.\n", "Chin Peng died at the age of 88, in Bangkok, Thailand, where he was cremated according to Buddhist rites.\n", "Chin Peng was born Ong Boon Hua on 21 October 1924 into a middle-class family in the small seaside town of Sitiawan, in Perak state, Malaya. His ancestral home is Fuqing, Fujian, China. His father went to live in Sitiawan in 1920. He set up a bicycle, tire, and spare motor parts business with the help of a relative from Singapore, known as Ong Lock Cho.[4]\n", "Chin Peng attended a Chinese language school in Sitiawan. In 1937 he joined the Chinese Anti Enemy Backing Up Society (AEBUS), formed that year to send aid to China in response to Japan's aggression. According to Chin and Hack, he was not a communist then.[5] He was in charge of anti-Japanese activities at his school, and was reportedly a supporter of Sun Yat-sen. By early 1939, he had embraced Communism. He planned to go to Yan'an, the renowned communist base in China but was persuaded to remain in Malaya and take on heavier responsibilities in the newly formed Malayan Communist Party.\n", "In late 1939, when Chin Peng was in the 4th year of his secondary school education (known as senior middle-level one), his school announced that the senior middle section was to be closed due to lack of funds. He decided to continue his education in the Methodist-run Anglo-Chinese Continuation School, which operated in English, because it provided a good cover for his underground activities. He did not want to have to move to Singapore to continue with his education in Chinese. He left the school \"for fear of British harassment\" after just 6 months.[6]\nHe was now focused fully on his political activities and became, from that point on, a full-time revolutionary. In January 1940 he was put in charge of three anti-Japanese organisations that were targeting students, teachers, members of cultural activities, and general labourers. At the end of January 1940, he was admitted to the Malayan Communist Party as a member.[7]\n", "Harassment by the authorities led him to leave his home town for Kuala Kangsar in July 1940. (This may be at the time when he left his school, refer to above). Later he spent a month in Taiping. In September 1940 the party posted him to Ipoh as a  Standing committee member for Perak. In December he attained full Party membership.\n", "In early 1941 AEBUS was dissolved. Chin Peng became Ipoh District committee member of the Party. \"He led student underground cells of three Chinese secondary schools and the Party's organisations of the shop assistants, domestic servants of European families, workers at brick kilns and barbers.\"\n[7]\n", "In June 1941 he became a member of the Perak State Committee.\n", "Chin Peng rose to prominence during World War II when many Chinese Malayans took to the jungle to fight a guerrilla war against the Japanese. These fighters, inspired by the example of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), became known as the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA). Chin Peng became the liaison officer between the MPAJA and the British military in South-East Asia.\n", "The Japanese invasion of Malaya began in December 1941. In 1942 Chin was the youngest of three members of the Secretariat of the Perak State Committee: Su Yew Meng was secretary and Chang Meng Ching  was the other member. In early 1943 the two senior members were captured by the Japanese, which left Chin Peng in charge. Contact with the Party's Central Committee had been lost; he attempted to re-establish it, travelling to Kuala Lumpur and meeting Chai Ker Meng. Later, party leader Lai Tek sent another Central Committee member, Lee Siow Peng (Siao Ping), to replace Chin as State Secretary. However, Lee Siow Peng was captured not long after while travelling to a meeting that was to be held in Singapore.[citation needed]\n", "Thus the job of establishing contact with the British commando Force 136 fell to Chin Peng. The first party of that force, consisting of Capt. John Davis and five Chinese agents had landed in Malaya on 24 May 1943, by submarine. Chin Peng made contact with this armed group on 30 September 1943. He was active in his support for the British stay-behind troops but had no illusions about their failure to protect Malaya against the Japanese. In the course of this activity, he came into contact with Freddie Spencer Chapman, who called him a 'true friend' in his Malayan jungle memoir, 'The Jungle Is Neutral'.\n", "In recognition of his service during the war, Chin was awarded an OBE[2] (though it was subsequently withdrawn later by the British government), a mention in despatches and two campaign medals by Britain. He was elected the Secretary-General of the Communist Party of Malaya after the betrayal of previous leader Lai Tek, who had turned out to be an agent for both the British and the Japanese and had denounced the leadership of the Party to the Japanese secret police. Chin Peng was the most senior surviving member.\n", "In 1948, the Federation of Malaya Plan replaced the Malayan Union plan, frustrating the CPM as they felt the plan was undemocratic and biased towards the Malay elites. They accused the British of forcing the Federation idea on the people by portraying it as a constitutional solution to Malaya's crisis.[8][9] According to Chin, the central committee still adhered to Lai Teck's peace struggle strategy in facing the Federation, as they thought that the people of Malaya were still recovering from the horrors of the Japanese Occupation. To launch an armed rebellion so soon would not only cause them to lose the mass support they had been enjoying but, at the same time, also drive the already wary Malays to openly resist them.[10][11][12]\n", "Some scholars allege that the CPM received secret directives from Moscow agents on the methods and timing for a near-simultaneous uprising against colonial authorities during the Southeast Asian Youth Conference held in Calcutta on 19 February 1948 which eventually caused the CPM's insurrection. Chin denied it, stating that the conference argued against such a move. Laurence Sharkey, party secretary of the Australian Communist Party, informed Chin and the central committee of the conference's decision while stopping over in Singapore on his way home.[13][14] In March 1948, the central committees were discussing new policies as the labour strikes were not bringing the results that they hoped for. Chin Peng estimated it would be a year or two before the British took actions against the CPM, leaving them ample time to prepare for a guerrilla war.[15][16]\n", "On 12 June 1948, the colonial government outlawed the burgeoning trade union federations amid a rising atmosphere of tension. Since then, there was no reduction in the level of violent activities, other than the neutralisation of trade unions. Political murders of informers, anyone found to be working against the labour movement or the CPM, non-Europeans considered enemies to the communist cause or strike-breakers who used thugs and gangsters to harass protesters rose.[17] The murder of three Kuomintang leaders in Johor on 12 June had convinced the British that the communists were escalating the conflict in retaliation for outlawing the trade unions, while in the CPM's eyes these murders were just purely acts of intimidation. Chin again claimed that he was not aware of the murders at the time, although he approved of the later killing of the plantation managers who he claimed were harsh and cruel towards farmworkers.[17][18]\n", "On 16 June 1948, three European plantation managers were murdered in Sungai Siput, which has generally been identified as the incident contributing to the Malayan colonial administration declaration of a state of emergency. Rather, Sze-Chieh Ng argued these murders were merely the final catalyst for a long-brewing crisis that had been going on since the trade unions began agitating in 1945. Historian Anthony Short feels that this was more of a panic reaction than a carefully considered move. According to him, the government had been powerless to deal with the unrest plaguing Malaya since 1945. According to Purcell's viewpoint, the Emergency was declared in response to increasing incidents of violence and lawlessness.[19][20][21]\n", "Many Singaporean historians and anti-communists allege that Chin Peng ordered the killings. Chin claimed he had no prior knowledge of the plot. He added that he barely escaped arrest, losing his passport in the process, and he lost touch with the Party for a couple of days.[22] Chin became the most wanted man of the British government, with the government offering a reward of $250,000 for his capture. On 17 July 1948, CPM offices in Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh, Singapore, and other major cities were raided, followed by mass arrests of suspected communists and anti-government individuals on 21 July.[23] The CPM was banned in July 1948.\n", "In response to the Emergency and the mass arrests of its members, the CPM issued a call to its members to revive its disbanded wartime resistance army, the MPAJA, to take up arms again and escape to the jungles.[24] In fact, since late May and early June the communists had been secretly setting up platoons in several states in preparation for an expected British crackdown in September. The sudden declaration of the Emergency in June, however, forced the MCP to hasten its plan, and they appealed to comrades and volunteers to join them in the struggle.[19] The new guerrilla army, now known as the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA), spent the first year of the Emergency reconsolidating and rearming.[23]\n", "At that time, the CPM was in chaos. Its members were dispersed in the jungle and operated without any command structure or central leadership. According to Chin, attacks were being carried out without his approval or knowledge and there was no coordination among units. The guerrillas endured heavy casualties were but made few or no strategic gains in those early months.[25] Chin was desperate to assert control over the MNLA, which had been operating independently since June. It was not until August that some form of central authority was finally set up in the Cameron Highlands, with Chin ordering the guerrillas to adopt Mao Zedong's strategy of establishing liberated zones whenever they drove British forces from an area.[26] However, this strategy failed. British forces continued to hound the guerrillas, who were often forced to retreat deeper into the jungles and disperse into smaller units. This was due to difficulties in resupply.  Moreover large units risked being detected and annihilated by British patrols.[27]\n", "Furthermore, the CPM was losing civilian support, and lacking material assistance and intelligence, the party suffered. Chin admitted they had wrongly assumed that the people would be willing support his men, as they had done during World War II. When that failed to happen, they resorted to force to satisfy their needs.[28]\n", "The CPM and MNLA also suffered under British propaganda, which labelled them \"bandits\" and \"communist terrorists\". Old suspicions and assumptions that the CPM had clandestine support from either the CCP or the Soviet Union had, over time, hardened into certainty.[29] Records disclosed after the Cold War ended have finally disproved the convenient lie the British propagated more than half a century ago, revealing not only that the CPM had not sought external support but also that no agents from either China or Russia had even made contact with them. The only \u2018support\u2019 Chin recalled obtaining was the encouraging news that Mao's guerrillas had defeated Chiang Kai-shek's well-equipped and numerically superior KMT army in 1949.[30][31]\n", "In 1950, a series of strategies were introduced by the Director of Operations for the anti-communist war in Malaya, Lt. General Sir Harold Briggs, that later became known as the Briggs Plan.[32] The plan, which aimed to defeat the guerrillas by cutting off their sources of civilian support, was a success. The creation of \u2018New Villages\u2019 under this plan restricted intelligence and food supplies for the CPM, and thus had a devastating effect on the guerrillas.[33] Chin was well aware of this fact, since several times he nearly starved during those twelve years.[34]\n", "After several reviews and amendments, the CPM ordered the guerrillas to cease sabotage and terror operations and to develop closer ties with the middle-class to preserve their organizational strength.[33] Chin would later admit in an interview in 1999 that this directive was a mistake as it allowed the British to press on with their attacks on the MNLA, whom they correctly assessed to be quite demoralised by then.[35]\n", "After Sir Harold Briggs died, Lt. General Sir Gerald Templer was appointed as the new commander, introducing aggressive strategies which differed from the Briggs Plan. These included interrogations, food rationing, large monetary rewards for captured or killed communists coupled with intense military operations, and the mobilisation of a large number of troops to hound the guerrillas.[36][37] In 1953, the CPM relocated their headquarters to Betong, in southern Thailand. They reestablished its networks to connect the scattered units and review its strategy.[38][39]\n", "In late 1953 and early 1954, the war was at a semi-stalemate due to both the MNLA and the British being unable to decisively defeat one another.[40] In early 1954, Siao Chang, a top CPM leader who had been sent to Beijing in late 1952 to deepen his Marxist\u2013Leninist education while also serving as liaison to the CCP, announced a new direction for the party, which was to abandon the establishment of the People's Democratic Republic of Malaya and join with other Malayan political parties in a legal fight for Malaya independence.[41] Chin described Siao as the CPM's \u2018insurance policy\u2019 in the event the central committee was eliminated.[42]\n", "Although this was not their decision, Chin and the other central committees decided to join the other Malayan parties, reasoning that the Malay politicians had achieved more for the independence movement within the last few years than the MNLA had since 1948. The Beijing announcement also revealed to the CPM that both the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China had viewed the armed struggle in Malaya as untenable.[43][42][44]\n", "On 24 September 1955, Chin wrote to Tunku Abdul Rahman offering to negotiate peace. On 17 October, talks between two government representatives and Chin Peng and another central committee of the CPM were held at Klian Intan.[45] A new \u2018Eight Point Program\u2019 was introduced by the CPM to call for an end to the Emergency and a cessation of hostilities, a reform of Malaya's political system, expand democratic rights, support for world peace, and attention to other matters including education, health, welfare, and industrial production.\n", "On 28 and 29 December 1955, the negotiations reached their peak at the small northern town of Baling in Kedah. Representatives from the Government were Tunku Abdul Rahman, David Marshall, the Chief Minister of Singapore, and Sir Tan Cheng Lock, the leader of the Malayan Chinese Association (MCA). The CPM was represented by Chin Peng, Chen Tian, and Abdul Rashid bin Maidin. The first day of the talks did not go well, as Chin wanted the CPM to be recognised as a legal party again, or for the leaders and members of the MNLA to at least be allowed to regain their freedom of movement and not face any legal persecution or imprisonment.[46] Tunku Abdul Rahman rejected this request and demanded at the beginning of the meeting that the CPM fully surrender as the only way to peace, but then promised that those who surrendered would undergo a period of rehabilitation before being allowed to become free citizens again.[46]\n", "Chin again argued freedom of thought and choice must be recognised by the Malayan government if the new nation was to survive past its independence, as the people should have the right to decide which political path the nation should take rather than having that choice be decided by a select few in the government.[46] Tunku Abdul Rahman rejected this as well and only promised freedom for the CPM members to join any existing political party after being cleared by the authorities.[46]\n", "On the second day of the talks, Chin promised that the CPM would stop fighting and lay down its arms if the Alliance government persuaded the British government to grant it authority over internal security and defence.[47] Tunku Abdul Rahman accepted it as a challenge and promised that he would push for it on his upcoming trip to London.[48] Great publicity was given in the media to this dramatic challenge from Chin Peng. The challenge, indeed, served to strengthen the Alliance government's bargaining position at the London talks. Anxious to end the Emergency, the British government agreed to concede those powers of internal security and defence and to accede to the demand for independence for Malaya by 31 August 1957, if possible.[49] Chin claimed it was his challenge to Tunku Abdul Rahman that hastened the independence of Malaya.[49] Tunku Abdul Rahman had acknowledged the importance of the Baling talks, writing in 1974 that \"Baling had led straight to Merdeka (Independence).\"[49]\n", "Regardless, the talks themselves ended without a consensus between the two sides. The talks finally collapsed but were regarded as both a success and failure for Tunku Abdul Rahman, as the talks made the British regard him as a strong leader who was tough on communism. His performance had also impressed the Colonial Office enough to grant Malaya independence. For the CPM, it was a very demoralising affair that nearly destroyed their already ailing struggle.[48] The failure of the Baling Talks was a great blow for the CPM, since they now lost hope both of ending the war and of propagating their ideology. Due to the mounting combat casualties and the insecurity of food supplies, the members began surrendering to the government in exchange for monetary rewards and pardons.[50]\n", "In 1956, Chin wrote to Tunku Abdul Rahman offering to resume negotiations. This was rejected by Rahman in a broadcast on 2 April. By late 1958, the MNLA had lost almost 88% of its men, declining from an approximately 3000-strong army when they first rebelled in mid-1948 to no more than 350 men, as a result of casualties and surrenders.[51][52][53]\n", "In 1959, the central committees of CPM decided to demobilise their activities and to have the guerrillas reintegrate into society while continuing to promote their communist ideals until such a time when they could once again rise up in revolt.[51] Chin then moved to south Thailand with the remnants of his forces during the latter part of the Emergency due to pressure from the Malayan security forces, which by 1952 totalled over 32,000 regular troops in Malaya, about three-fifths of whom were Europeans from the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.[54]\n", "In 1961, members of the CPM central committee such as Chin Peng, Chen Tien, and Lee An Tung moved to Beijing to seek political advice and guidance from the more experienced Chinese Communist Party.[51] Chin would, however, remain in Beijing for the next 29 years and the party would not lay down its arms until 1989. The reasons for this reversal of the party's decision to disband, according to Chin, was the advice given to him by the Vietnamese communist leaders in Hanoi, the opening of the second \u2018Vietnam War\u2019, which was followed by China's Cultural Revolution, all of which stressed a strong militant line to be taken by Asian communist parties.[55]\n", "While in Beijing, Chin Peng was also advised by Deng Xiaoping, to continue the armed struggle in Malaya as Deng felt the time was ripe for revolutions to take place in Southeast Asia.[56] Deng insisted that the military struggle should not only be maintained but stepped up.[57] Deng even promised financial support to the CPM if they should take up arms once again.[56] Deng offered for this to remain a secret as the CCP did not wish to let it be known that they had been actively supporting Southeast Asia's communist movements. Chin reluctantly decided to acquiesce to Deng's suggestion. This was also the first time that the CPM had accepted foreign assistance in its struggle and it was with this financial backing that the second armed struggle in Malaya would be launched in 1968.[56]\n", "Meanwhile, back in Malaya, the Malayan government had declared the Emergency over on 31 July 1960 once they became confident the MNLA had ceased to be a credible threat, with the surviving guerrillas retreating to their sanctuary in southern Thailand.[56] However, the insurgency continued with the insurgents increasing their attacks, ambushing military convoys, bombing national monuments, and assassinations of marked police officers and political \u2018enemy targets\u2019. The insurgency, which began as a war against the British colonialists, was now transformed into a war against \u2018federalists, compressors capitalists and lackeys of British imperialism\u2019.[55] The Malayan government maintained a high-security alert by devoting one-third of its national budget to defence and internal security needs and requested British, Australian and New Zealand troops to remain in the country until its internal security and national armed forces could be built up and the foreign troops gradually phased out.[55]\n", "In 1970, the CPM's guerrilla bases in Thailand were hard hit by the trials and executions of supposed spies. Two breakaway factions were formed which condemned the purge. Chin, who was then based in China, denied involvement and later rehabilitated his accused comrades.[58] During the 1970s and 1980s, the CPM intensified its activities and clashes with the security forces. These activities were due to a rivalry among three factions in the CPM over party purges and strategies, with each faction trying to outdo the other in militancy and violence.[59]\n", "However, in 1980, Deng Xiaoping refocused his priorities back on the Chinese bureaucracy after his return to power in 1978. He welcomed Lee Kuan Yew, the then-Prime Minister of Singapore and its leading political figure since independence from Malaysia, in a visit to Beijing.[57] Chin recalled that Deng had not bothered to meet him since then. Finally, in December 1980, Deng summoned Chin. In the meeting, Deng demanded Chin to immediately close down all the CPM's radio stations which were broadcasting from China to Malaysia. When Chin asked Deng when he would like him to cease the broadcasting, Deng replied, \"The sooner the better\u00a0... Lee (Lee Kuan Yew) asked me to stop the broadcasts immediately.\"[57] Moreover, during his official visit to China, the second Prime Minister of Malaysia Tun Abdul Razak held talks with Chinese communist leader Chairman Mao Zedong and urged him to stop giving aid to the CPM. The fourth Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad further succeeded in persuading China to downgrade its ties with the CPM. This was an important factor that contributed to the CPM's decision to end its armed struggle.[59][60]\n", "The CPM finally laid down its arms in 1989. The death toll during the armed conflict totalled thousands. Those sympathetic to Chin Peng tend to portray the violence perpetrated by the CPM as defensive, while right-wing opponents tend to portray it as aggressive and unethical. Some have claimed a large number of civilian casualties was in contrast to the stance adopted by Mao Zedong and his policy of the Eight Points of Attention.\n", "On 2 December 1989, at the town of Hat Yai in Southern Thailand, Chin, Rashid Maidin, and Abdullah CD met with representatives of the Malaysian and Thai governments. Separate peace agreements were signed between the MCP and both governments. One of the terms of the agreement was that MCP members of Malayan origin be allowed to return to live in Malaysia.\n", "When all hostilities ceased, the total number of CPM members was 1,188; 694 were Thai-born and 494 claimed origins in Peninsular Malaysia. They were given a temporary grant and promised integration into Malaysia.[57]\n", "In Chin's opinion, peace could have been achieved as early as 1955 during the Baling Talks, if the British, Tunku Abdul Rahman and David Marshall had not demanded that the communist fighters capitulate and surrender but, rather, had allowed them to hand over or destroy their weapons in a mutually agreed way and then resume normal life with full political freedom, which was the broad outcome of the 1989 accords.[61]\n", "Chin never officially returned to Malaysia after the 1989 Hat Yai Peace Accords but continued his exile in Thailand. He gave lectures at the National University of Singapore in 2004, using purposes of academic research as his reason to gain visitation permission from the Singaporean government. At the beginning of 2000, he applied for permission to return to Malaysia. His application was rejected by the High Court on 25 July 2005.\n", "In June 2008, Chin again lost his bid to return to Malaysia when the Court of Appeal upheld an earlier ruling that compelled him to show identification papers to prove his citizenship. Chin maintained that his birth certificate was seized by the police during a raid in 1948. His counsel Raja Aziz Addruse had submitted before the Court of Appeal that it was wrong for the Malaysian government to compel him to produce the documents because he was entitled to enter and live in Malaysia under the peace agreement.\n", "On April 2009, Chin's application to return to Malaysia was once again rejected by the High Court for the same reason as his previous attempt. The Malaysian government insisted that his possible return would cause people who lost their loved ones during the Emergency to relive their pain again.[62]\n", "In November 2009, Chin issued an apology to the victims and their family members for the atrocities committed by the CPM.[63] However, the then-Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, Muhyiddin Yassin, replied that despite Chin's apology, he would still not be allowed to return to Malaysia due to his treason.[64]\n", "Before his death, he lived in exile in Thailand. Contrary to one of the conditions of the 1989 peace agreement, he was not permitted to return to Malaysia.[citation needed]\n", "Chin died of cancer at the age of 88 at a private hospital in Bangkok, with only his 50-year-old niece by his side, on the morning of 16 September 2013, the 50th anniversary of Malaysia Day,[65] and the 90th birthday of Lee Kuan Yew. He was cremated according to Buddhist rites.[citation needed]\n", "While Chin had previously voiced wishes to be buried in Sitiawan, his remains continued to be denied entry for burial in Malaysia by the Malaysian government, as it was claimed that the one-year window after the agreement to reapply for citizenship had long lapsed and Chin was assumed to have relinquished his rights to return.[66] In November 2019, his remains were announced to have been returned in secrecy by a small action committee on 16 September 2019; his ashes were ceremoniously transported through Sitiawan before scattering at a hillside near Chemor and at sea.[67]\n", "Chin Peng co-authored his story with Singapore-based writers and publishers Ian Ward, who was formerly the Southeast Asia correspondent for the London conservative newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, and Ward's wife Norma Miraflor. The book named Alias Chin Peng: My Side of History, was published in 2003.[68]\n", "Another book, Dialogues with Chin Peng: New Light on the Malayan Communist Party by editors C. C. Chin and Karl Hack, was published by the Singapore University Press in 2004. This book details a series of meetings held in Australia that Chin Peng had attended with historians and military experts.\n", "In 2006, a documentary film about Chin Peng was made called The Last Communist. It was banned by the Ministry of Home Affairs of Malaysia.[69]\n", "Another documentary film about him called I Love Malaya was released.[70]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://alchetron.com/cdn/chong-ted-tsiung-3678d698-3929-4981-b117-14d65d554b9-resize-750.jpg", "name": "Chong_Ted_Tsiung", "overview": ["\n", "Chong Ted Tsiung (simplified Chinese: \u5f20\u5fb7\u677e; traditional Chinese: \u5f35\u5fb7\u677e; pinyin: Zh\u0101ng D\u00e9s\u014dng; Jyutping: Zoeng1 Dak1 Cung4; Pe\u030dh-\u014de-j\u012b: Tiunn Tik-tsh\u00eeng; Pha\u030dk-fa-s\u1e73: Ch\u00f4ng Tet-tshi\u00f9ng) was the third mayor of Kuching City South Council. He succeeded Chan Seng Khai who was the second mayor of Kuching City South Council on 31 July 2006. He was the first non-politician to be appointed as a mayor of Kuching City South Council, having previously been employed by the state as Controller of Environment Quality.[1]\n", "Born in a family of 9 in Kuching on 18 June 1956, he received his 6-year primary education at 10th Mile Chinese Primary School and his secondary education at Dragon Government Secondary' School, 24th Mile Kuching-Serian Road. In 1982, he graduated with a bachelor's degree (Honours) in Public Administration from De Montfort University, Leicester, England, Later, in 1995 he obtained his Master of Science in Environmental Policy and Management from Hull University, UK.\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://scontent.fkul8-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.18169-9/20622262_10155495347356977_1719767226498399183_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=c2f564&_nc_ohc=0me8OE0k4dcAX-0DTcn&_nc_pt=1&_nc_ht=scontent.fkul8-2.fna&cb_e2o_trans=q&oh=00_AfBvO-4jfhnYd7XXUMBSGWAhD8JxV-0LpCruki3Fhwu9YA&oe=65D2B930", "name": "Lily_Eberwein", "overview": ["\nLily Eberwein Abdullah (11 July 1900[1][2] \u2013 1980) was a Sarawakian nationalist and a women's right activist. She was politically active in the anti-cession movement of Sarawak, a nationalist movement in the 1940s attempted to retrieve Sarawak's independence from takeover by Britain. This movement had helped in politicising local people besides cultivating national spirit in people of Sarawak.[3]\n", "Lily Eberwein Abdullah was a Eurasian by birth, having European and Malay ancestry. Her father, John Eberwein, a Eurasian of Dutch and Scottish descent from Cocos Islands, was a relative of the Clunies-Ross family, rulers of that island. Lily's father captained the ship Rajah Brooke for the Straits Steamship Company.[4] Her mother was a local Malay woman, Maznah bt. Ali bin Alang of Simanggang. They lived in Singapore where they had two children, Lily and Edward. Maznah was a practising Muslim, but Lily and Edward had a Christian upbringing. Lily had her early education at St. Mary's Mission School in Kuching, Sarawak until she was eight years old and continued her study at Raffles Girls\u2019 School in Singapore.\n", "After her father's death, Lily returned to Kuching with her mother and continued her study until Standard Seven (equivalent to Form Three, age 15) at St. Mary's Mission School. Her father's death completely changed her family's lifestyle. Lily had to adjust to a Muslim Malay upbringing, denoted by the addition of Abdullah to her name. In an interview, her daughter, Hafsah Harun, explained that her mother's upbringing was different from that of other Malay girls. Having had a European lifestyle in Singapore, when she returned to Kuching she missed her previous freedom and found it difficult to start covering her head and be confined to the house. She had been accustomed to having male servants to serve her when her father was still alive in Singapore, but back in Kuching she had to serve her uncles. Furthermore, being an educated woman she was very outspoken and independent. Lily converted to Islam in 1913. Her knowledge about her new religion impressed her neighbours, to the extent that many people in the village sent their sons to Lily to learn to read the Quran. This gesture showed that the people in the village trusted her and respected her highly as women were rarely consulted for religious teaching in that era. She had become accepted, and identified herself, as a Muslim Malay.\n", "In 1927, the Director of a telephone company, Mr Tate, recruited Lily Eberwein to work as a telephone operator, making her the first Malay woman to work in a Government Department.[4] She had an excellent command of both Malay and English, as was required of a telephone operator, and her father had been a family friend of Mr. Tate's.\n", "In 1929, she resigned from this post when the Brooke Government appointed her as the Principal of the Permaisuri Malay Girls\u2019 School, which was opened in Kuching in 1930.[4] She was also the secretary of the Malay section, while Mary Ong, Barbara Bay and Mrs. Gopal headed Chinese, Iban and Indian section. Through her educational activities, both religious and secular, she became known as Cikgu (teacher) Lily. Noticeably, she was over the age for marriage at that time.\n", "She married in 1938 and proceeded to have three daughters, with the first, Hafsah, being born in 1940. Her husband, Harun bin Haris, was ten years her junior, with only five years of primary education, and worked in the Sarawak Police Constabulary. Her husband was very supportive of her involvement in the Anti-Cession movement and her passion for education. In Sarawak at that time, being married at a later age and having a much younger husband would definitely have been controversial. However, Lily seemed to be able to take it all in her stride. She was highly respected, especially among Malay people because of her dedication to educating Malay girls.\n", "During the Japanese occupation in Sarawak, the Japanese appointed Lily as the leader of the Malay section of the Kaum Ibu, a multiethnic women's association. In March 1947, she was elected as the chairperson of the women's wing of the Malay National Union of Sarawak(PKMS), a leading group in the Anti-Cession Movement. Lily resigned from her post as the principal of Permaisuri Girls School in 1947 as a sign of protest against the Cession but she continued her role as an educationalist by establishing new schools.\n", "As the anti-cession struggle continued, many Malay government schools were closed. This became a serious concern as affected students could not find places in other Malay schools. Four schools in Kuching and another in Sibu were established by those teachers who resigned. To assist children of resigned public servants who boycotted government schools, Lily helped to establish a religious school for girls and women (sekolah rakyat) in the premise of the Masjid Bintangor Haji Taha Building. Lily and teachers who resigned in protest against the circular taught in these schools without pay.\n", "In an interview by The Straits Times Singapore dated 21 July 1947 on the Anti-Cession movement, Lily Eberwein expressed her concern for its impact on Malay education. In the article entitled \u201cEducation Standstill\u201d, Lily stated that the protest against cession had had the most serious effect on education, which was virtually at a standstill. She emphasised that the position of education in Sarawak must remain a matter of gravest public concern \u201cfor as long as this unhappy controversy lasts\u201d, referring to cession. She also stated, \u201cWe Malays, in conjunction with the other indigenous races, will fight with unwavering purpose for the redress of the wrong that has been done to our people in the extinction of our nationhood and independence\u201d. In the article she clearly identified herself as a member of the Malay community and with the cause of Sarawak's national independence, but also expresses her concern about the effects of the nationalist struggle on education and thus on the people of Sarawak. In Anthony Brooke's memoir, he clearly recognised the importance of the women's role in the Anti-Cession movement. He specifically highlighted Lily Eberwein's effort, stating that: \u201ca new impetus was given to the movement due to the initiative head teacher Lily Eberwein, who formed a women\u2019s branch of the movement. This met with considerable support from women of all ages from throughout the count.\u201d\n", "Although Lily Eberwein was a very active anti-cessionist, she never joined any political parties. Nevertheless, she was the first woman to be appointed as a Councillor of Kuching Municipal Council in 1950. She was a pioneer for women in public life in Sarawak. She participated actively in various voluntary organisations such as the Prisoners\u2019 Aid Society, Anti-Tuberculosis Association Sarawak (ATAS), and the Red Cross. She remained the Chairman of Kaum Ibu in the Malay National Union of Sarawak until 1960 when she also retired from her own school, Satok English School. Occasionally after that she assisted her daughter Hafsah Harun who replaced her as the school Principal.\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://i.ibb.co/V94HtJm/ellron.jpg", "name": "Ellron_Alfred_Angin", "overview": ["\n", "Ellron Alfred Angin (born 15 July 1958) is a Malaysian politician who has been the State Minister of Rural Development briefly in 2018 and currently the incumbent State Minister of Youth and Sports since 2020. He has served as the Member of Sabah State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Sook since March 2008. He was formerly a member of the Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sabah (PBRS) which is aligned with the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition both in federal and state levels and now a member of the Parti Solidariti Tanah Airku (STAR) since 2018.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Eu-Chooi-Yip-in-Jakarta-1962-or-1963.jpg/220px-Eu-Chooi-Yip-in-Jakarta-1962-or-1963.jpg", "name": "Eu_Chooi_Yip", "overview": ["\nEu Chooi Yip (simplified Chinese: \u4f59\u67f1\u4e1a; traditional Chinese: \u4f59\u67f1\u696d; pinyin: Y\u00fa Zh\u00f9y\u00e8; 2 December 1918 - 4 October 1995[1]) was a prominent member of the anti-colonial and Communist movements in Malaya and Singapore in the 1950s and 1960s. Eu Chooi Yip was born in Kuantan, Malaysia.[2]\n", "He was the Secretary of the Malayan Democratic Union (MDU), Singapore's first political party. He actively engaged in Anti-British League, established by the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) and was responsible for pro-communist propaganda productions. After Eu Chooi Yip joined the MCP, he was responsible for the underground communist movement in Singapore from the 1950s to 1960s. He was the Secretary-General of the United Front of the MCP, called the Malayan National Liberation League, which set its office in Beijing. During the Cultural Revolution, he was one of the directors taking in charge of the radio station, the voice of Malayan Revolution. In 1990, he returned to Singapore after receiving the invitation from the Singapore government. Eu Chooi Yip served as a senior research fellow at Institute of East Asian philosophy in Singapore. He died on 4 October 1995, aged 76.\n", "Eu was born on 2 December 1918 in Kuantan, Malaysia. Eu's parents came from Taishan, Guangdong, and operated a medicine shop in Malaysia. He came to Singapore to study with his brother and sister. He attended Victoria School while his sister went to Nanyang Girls' High School. As a child, he was taught by his sister about Sino-Japanese War, and he understood how Chinese people suffered under Japanese occupation.[2] At that time, the Chinese Communist Party established a Nanyang branch which organised communist movements among overseas Chinese and also influenced Eu. In 1938, Eu received an entrance scholarship to enter Raffles College.[3] Eu was a brilliant student who is good at economics and became one of the top graduates at Raffles College. He was a close friend of Goh Keng Swee, who will become Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister, whom he knew during his Raffles College days. As a Chinese student, Eu was politically aroused by China's struggle against Japan. He became interested in politics and developed Chinese nationalism. Although he also read Edgar Snow's Book, Red Star over China and developed respect toward the Chinese Communist Party, he did not totally accept communism.[3]\n", "After graduation in 1940, Eu worked as a Labour Inspector for the colonial government in Kuala Lumpur. When Japanese attack Kuala Lumpur in 1942, Eu moved to Singapore and worked as a clerk for Overseas Insurance Company. When Japanese occupied Singapore, he worked in statistical offices for a while. After Japan surrendered, he went back to work for the colonial government. When the Chinese leftist writer, Hu Yuzhi, published an article in Fengxia magazine in 1945 which criticised slavish colonial mentality, he felt ashamed for his experience of serving the British and Japanese colonial government.[4]\n", "The Malayan Democratic Union, the first fledged political party, was formed in Singapore in December 1945 by English-educated intellectuals, such as Lim Hong Bee, Lim Kean Chye, John Eber and Philip Hoalim.[5] Eu resigned and joined the MDU as a full-time activist in Singapore in 1946 and became a stringer for the English language newspaper, the Straits Times. In preparation for independence of post-war Malaya, the British colonial administration provided the Constitutional Proposals for Malaya, or the Federation Proposals, which failed to balance the interests of Malays and non-Malays. The Federation Proposals met the demands of conservative Malays of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) that Malaya was constitutionally a Malay state and rejected the equal rights of non-Malays. The MDU worked together with Malayan Communist Party and the Malay Nationalist Party to organise anti-Federation movements, which led to the establishment of All-Malayan Council of Joint Action (AMCJA) and Pusat Tenaga Ra'ayat (PUTERA). The AMCJA-PUTERA coalition demanded a self-governing United Malaya including Singapore and equal rights to all citizens. In 1947, Eu replaced Lim Hong Bee as MDU Secretary.[5] Although the ALL Malaya Hartal was successful, the colonial government did not concede and the coalition had financial shortage for the second Hartal. In April 1948, member organisations of the coalition held the last conference. Eu proposed to decentralise the AMCJA-PUTERA coalition that each member organisation of the coalition could conduct agitation against the Federation constitution and member organisations were not allowed to act in the name of the AMCJA-PUTERA unless permitted by the general conference.[6] This conference actually dismantled AMCJA-PUTERA, and the MDU which ascribed the result to financial stringencies dissolved voluntarily. The more important factor leading to the dissolution of the AMCJA-PUTERA was that the MCP had already lost the faith in the constitutional struggle and turned toward armed revolution. As the result, the Malayan Emergency began in 1948 June, and the MCP was outlawed by the government. At that time, Eu rejected the connection between the AMCJA and the MCP and claimed that he gave his loyalty to Malaya and he was not a Communist.[7] At the time, Eu was described as an English-educated radical, along with P.V. Sarma, John Eber and Dr. Joseph K.M. Tan. They were pro-communist sympathies, but they were still not communists.[3]\n", "The MCP established the Anti-British League (ABL) and the student organisations in 1948, which strongly influenced Eu's left-wing thoughts. One MCP leader, Ah Chin, made a decision to extend its influence among English-educated intelligentsia and absorb suitable ones into the party.[3] The English-speaking section leader of the ABL, Wong Siong Nien, was sent to persuade Eu. Eu started to embrace communism in at the end of 1948 and actively engaged in the ABL. As Eu had a bachelor's degree and can speak both Mandarin and English, as an intellectual among MCP members, he was given a lot of responsibilities. Eu began to develop Communist Underground in Singapore and recruit ABL members among both English-speaking and Chinese-speaking intellectuals. A large number of students in University of Malaya who were political radicals engaged in clandestine activities and developed connections with the ABL and the MCP.[5] He successfully persuaded his three MDU colleagues P.V. Sarma, Dr. Joseph K.M. Tan, Lim Chan Yong, and Lim Kean Chye to join in the communist party.[3] They visited middle-class families to collect donation for the MCP and the ABL activities. He worked an editor for the Freedom News, which distributed communist propaganda productions.[5] Lim Chan Yong and Joseph K.M. Tan founded pro-communist paper, Malayan Orchid.[5] They distributed these propaganda productions from door to door. Due to the efforts of Eu Chooi Yip, the Chinese-speaking ABL recruited 2000 members in June 1950, including Worker's ABL and Students\u2019 ABL. A number of ABL members gained admission into the MCP through ABL activities, including Eu Chooi Yip who became an official member of the MCP in 1950.[2]\n", "The British colonial government had a real fight against communist members in 1951. The police arrested members of the ABL and clear the leftwing group active in the Singapore Teachers\u2019 Union, the Singapore Cooperative Society and the University of Malaya.[8] The active members of former MDU and ABL were arrested by the police, such as John Eber and Dr Joseph K.M. Tan. Many students were also detained and charged with editing pro-communist paper. Eu Chooi Yip and Lim Kean Chye escaped the police arrest, because they went to Beijing for exchange.[9]\n", "Eu's close friend, S Rajaratnam gave him shelter while he was hiding from the British during this time and helped Eu get medical treatment for his tuberculosis.[10] As the colonial government was suppressing the communist movement in Singapore, Eu was asked to go to Jakarta, Indonesia under the order of Yeung Kuo, deputy secretary general of the MCP, and continued his work for the MCP.[11]\n", "In Jakarta, Eu established a party branch, which directed the communist activities in Singapore remotely. He took direct orders from Chin Peng, the secretary-general of MCP, and was the superior of Fong Chong Pik. The MCP planned to co-operate with Lee Kuan Yew and trying to help establish the People's Action Party (PAP). The truth of the story between the MCP and Lee Kuan Yew remains controversial, because Eu, Fong Chong Pik, and Lee Kuan Yew had different claims about the event. According to Eu Chooi Yip, Party committee in Indonesia and Chin Peng did not give Fong Chong Pik the authority, but Fong Chong Pik voluntarily took charge of all party affairs in Singapore and began to meet with Lee Kuan Yew.[2] In 1957, Eu Chooi Yip went back to Singapore to observe the general election. After the meeting with Eu, Fong Chong Pik went to meet Lee Kuan Yew and talked about co-operation. Fong Chong Pik claimed that he was appointed as the Party representative and LKY game him the nickname \"the Plen\".[12] LKY claimed that Fong wanted to establish co-operation in the united anti-colonial front with the PAP during his broadcast.[13] As the MCP received support from the masses, especially the left-wings, the MCP's support for the PAP would help LKY win the election. In addition, the MCP expected that LKY would not take actions against the communist party after he got the power.[2] However, Lee Kuan Yew were very strict against the communist party when he got the power in Singapore. As the Barisan Sosialis split from the PAP, the MCP realised that they could not co-operate with Lee Kuan Yew. Fong Chong Pik was prevented to meet with Lee any more, before Lee initiated Operation Cold Store.[2]\n", "In the early 1960s, when Sukarno served as the president of Indonesia, the MCP could organise activities publicly. Through the co-operation with Communist Party of Indonesia, Eu established Malayan National Liberation League.[11] In 1963, he served as the secretary of the Southern Bureau of the MCP and made guidelines for underground activities in Singapore.[14] To avoid a concentration of members in Jakarta and prepare for the resumption of underground activities in Malaya, many party members were sent to Medan, Aceh, Bagansiapiapi of Sumatra and to Bintan Island and Batam Island of the Riau islands, in mid-1964.[11] These member helped to establish new bases or new liaison stations.\n", "However, after the 30 September Movement in 1965 that suppressed the Communist movements in Indonesia, Eu was arrested, and later released to China. The MCP began to operate secretly and no institutions were open publicly. The Malayan National Liberation League which was open publicly in Beijing actually represented the MCP, and Eu served as the Secretary-General.\n", "When the MCP retreated to the border between Malaysia and Thailand, a radio station called \"the Voice of Malayan Revolution\" was also established which broadcast battlefield reports of Malayan Peoples\u2019 Liberation Army.[15] As the radio station was destroyed by the Malaysian Army in July 1968, Mao Zedong helped the MCP rebuilt the radio station in Sifang Mountain, Changsha, Hunan Province in 1969 (during the period of Cultural Revolution). The radio station used four languages, Chinese, Malay, Tamil and English, to broadcast in Southeast Asia. Eu was director of the radio station's Chinese branch. The broadcast scripts of the Voice of Malayan Revolution were recorded by a group of Barisan Sosialis members, including historian C. C. Chin.[16] They completed the texts and published them in the Singapore leftist newspapers, such as Zhenxian Bao (Front), Party News, and People's Forum. These newspapers routinely published the frequency and wavelength of the radio station. A number of \"red\" cartoons, photos, and poems are also published. After the Operation Cold Store, the Barisan Sosialis lost its ability to compete with the PAP, but it was still significant opposition party. However, by using the rhetoric of Cultural Revolution, the Barisan's political agenda was dramatically radicalised which led to self-destruction. The left in Singapore isolated themselves by following the political line of Mao's China and they no longer received support from the people, which gave the PAP's confidence to fight the left through legal means.[16]\n", "The radio station of \"the Voice of Malayan Revolution\" which was operated in the border between Malaysia and Thailand was very effective. According to Chen Yinghong, the radio broadcast strongly influenced members in guerrilla of the MCP.[14] Party members studied quotations from Mao Zedong and sang \"Red Songs\". People were interested in the battlefield reports of guerrilla of the MCP. A number of young people in Southeast Asian were encouraged to join in the MCP. However, the new radio station in Sifang Mountain failed to attract young people to join the communist party. The Chinese Communist Party only provided technical support for the radio broadcast and did not give any suggestions for the press releases.[15] Eu and his colleagues did not have news resources, and they just looked for the news from the public newspapers and paraphrased in a pro-communist way, so that the news were not well written.[2] The main sources of newspaper were Sinchew, Nanyang, Straits Times, Utusan Melayu and other newspaper from Hong Kong. As young people were interested in the battlefield reports, the radio failed to provide. People who listened to the radio found that the news releases were similar to the news in public newspapers and the only differences were the perspectives. Therefore, the propaganda of radio station in China was not effective.[citation needed]\n", "In the early 1980s, when Deng Xiaoping came into power, China stopped Cultural Revolution, planned to have normal diplomatic relationship with countries in Southeast Asia. Therefore, the revolution in Southeast Asia is no longer supported, and the \"Voice of Malayan Revolution\" was revoked.[14] The non-Chinese citizens who were willing to stay in China were arranged jobs. Eu was arranged to teach English in Changsha Railway University in Hunan. In 1989, Singapore and China started negotiations to establish diplomatic relations. Eu's classmate in Raffles College, the Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, Goh Keng Swee, sent him a message through the Chinese International Liaison Department that invited him to work as a consultant for the negotiations.[14] Eu accepted the invitation and later returned to Singapore in 1991. He served as a senior research fellow at Institute of East Asian philosophy in Singapore, until his death in 1995.{{[17]}}\n", "Eu Chooi Yip helped to create an oral history interview, Lang Jian Zhu Meng (Pursuing Dreams beyond the High Seas: Oral History of Eu Chooi Yip) and Political History in Singapore 1945-1965. In these books, he provided his own reflections on revolutionary history in Southeast Asia, including his opinions on the development and failure of the MCP.\n", "Eu Chooi Yip experienced the whole period of Maoist revolution in Southeast Asia. He believes that the MCP has great contribution in the history.[14] This contribution has two main parts. First, the MCP participated in the battle against fascism during World War II. The MCP cooperated with the British Special Operations Executive, Force 136 and became an important regional power of the allied in Southeast Asia. As the ultimate goal of the MCP was to seize power of all states, the MCP fought hard against the Japanese invaders. Military leaders (Chin Peng) of the MCP were awarded for Order of the British Empire after the war. The second contribution of the MCP is their struggle against British colonial rule. After World War II, the United Kingdom planned to prevent the expansion of communism and continue to maintain its colonial rule in Malaya. The MCP launched an armed struggle against colonialism and forced the British to abandon its colonial rule in Malaya and Singapore.[2] Finally the UK gave the ruling power to the Malaysian nationalists.\n", "When Malaysia got independence in the 1957, the country was on the way of nation-building and development. However, Eu Chooi Yip believed that the MCP failed because it did not recognise the legitimacy of Malaysia.[14] The plan of the MCP was to build a Maoist regime in Malaya through armed struggle. This plan limited party's attractiveness to the a few number of extreme left-wing Maoists in the Malaysia and lose the support from the masses, so that the MCP finally retreated to the border of Malaysia and Thailand. At that time, the ethnic and political conflicts are very intense in Malaysia and Singapore. Eu Chooi Yip believe that the MCP could have called on the masses to revolt against the governments through inciting political suppression and ethnic riots. However, the MCP lost those chances to receive the support from the masses, which indicated its failure at the end.\n", "During the late 1970s, when Eu Chooi Yip was working in \"Voice of Malayan Revolution\", he was trying to find answers that why the MCP was not able to receive support from the masses. He believes that the land reform policies made by the MCP were wrong.[2] The MCP claimed that Malaya was a colonial society, and farmers were the fundamental strength of the revolution. Those claims, Eu Chooi Yip believed, were copied from the theories of Mao Zedong. Eu Chooi Yip received some academic books and journal articles from Malaysia and Singapore and focused on the social structure of Malaya, especially the rural class structure.  He found that in Malaya, farmers rent lands from the British colonial government, and the rent was very low. Unlike Chinese farmer, Malayan farmers were smallholders and did not have any obligations. They planted rubbers and could be self-sustainable. Thus, Malaya's agricultural economy was capitalist economy. There was no landlord class ruling the Malayan village and Malayan farmers had no desire of revolution. As a result, Maoist theories that farmers were the main power of revolution and \"surround the cities from the countryside\" were impracticable in Malaya. Maoist theory was approved to be successful in China. As the MCP had been using Maoist theory as their guiding ideology for decades, and Maoist theory was also the foundation of the MCP's guerrilla warfare, changing guiding ideology and developing another theory could lead to devastating results to the party. The leaders of MCP were not able to recognise that they made theoretical mistake and copying Maoist theory led to the failure of the MCP.\n", "Eu Chooi Yip has two significant academic values. First, he provides a typical example that how an English-educated intellectual converted to a communist\nmember. According to Yeo Kim Wah, when Eu Chooi Yip received a lot of\ninformation about China's struggle against Japan and developed strong nationalism. He developed anti-colonialism through actively engaging in student political movements in Singapore, such as the Malayan Democratic Union and the Anti-British League.[3] These political movements were influenced by left-wing thoughts and supported by the Malayan Communist Party. After the success of communist revolution in China, Eu Chooi Yip accepted communist as his belief. Second, Eu Chooi Yip was an important leader of the MCP. The Chinese Scholar Cheng Yinghong had a deep analysis of him and believes that Eu Chooi Yip's reflection on communist movements in Malaya is important, because it helps people understand the influence of Mao's Cultural Revolution in Southeast Asia, the relationship between Deng's China and Southeast Asian countries, and the Communist Revolutions during the Cold War.[14]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://www.utusan.com.my/wp-content/uploads/WhatsApp-Image-2022-02-18-at-5.12.54-PM.jpeg", "name": "Fahmi_Zainol", "overview": ["Fahmi bin Zainol is a Malaysian politician. A member of the People's Justice Party (PKR), he has been the Member of Penang State Executive Council for Agrotechnology, Food Security, and Cooperative Development. He has also been the member of the Penang State Legislative Assembly representing Pantai Jerejak since 2023.\n", "Fahmi is a student activist and was the President of the Students' Council at the University of Malaya in 2013 before joining politics. He joined PKR on 3 November 2015 and was appointed as Chairman of the Student Bureau in the Youth Wing. In 2018, he was chosen as the Election Director for the Youth Wing. In the same year, he was elected as the Chief of the PKR Youth Wing of Penang state and Permatang Pauh Division. In 2022, he competed against Adam Adli for the Chief of PKR Youth Wing but lost. However, he was elected to the PKR central committee and was re-elected as the Chief of the PKR Youth Wing of Penang state and Permatang Pauh Division.[1][2]\n"]}
+{"img_link": null, "name": "Fong_Chong_Pik", "overview": ["\nFong Chong Pik (simplified Chinese: \u65b9\u58ee\u58c1; traditional Chinese: \u65b9\u58ef\u58c1; pinyin: F\u0101ng Zhu\u00e0ngb\u00ec; 1924 - 6 February 2004), also known as Fang Chuang Pi, was a political activist and member of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM), otherwise known as the Malayan Communist Party (MCP).[1]  He was the leader of the Singapore section of the Communist Party of Malaya.\n", "Fong Chong Pik was given the nickname \"The Plen\" (for \"plenipotentiary\") in the 1950s by his then political nemesis, Lee Kuan Yew. In 1997, he urged Singapore's government to let former insurgents return to the country.\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://www.theborneopost.com/newsimages/2013/05/B6999.jpg", "name": "Ghulamhaidar_Khan", "overview": ["\n", "Gulam Haidar bin Khan Bahadar is a Malaysian politician who has been the Assistant State Minister. He has served as the Member of Sabah State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Kawang since March 2004. He was a member of the Parti Gagasan Rakyat Sabah (GAGASAN) which is a component party of the ruling Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) coalition both in federal and state levels.[1][2][3][4]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://apicms.thestar.com.my/uploads/images/2023/07/06/2163734.jpg", "name": "Joachim_Gunsalam", "overview": ["\n", "Datuk Seri Panglima Dr. Joachim Gunsalam (born 22 January 1958) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Deputy Chief Minister II and State Minister of Housing and Local Government since 2023. He has served as the Member of Sabah State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Kundasang since March 2004. He is a member of the United Sabah Party (PBS) which is aligned with the Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition which rules both federally and in Sabah. He has served as the Deputy President of PBS for the non-Muslim bumiputera quota since June 2022. [2] Formerly, he also served as one of the Vice-Presidents of PBS for the non-Muslim bumiputera quota from 2006 to 2022.[3][4]\n", "He was appointed one of the deputy chief ministers of Sabah as part of the victorious Gabungan Rakyat Sabah coalition in the 2020 state election.\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/999303776816132096/3Z10EEMA_400x400.jpg", "name": "Jason_H%27ng_Mooi_Lye", "overview": ["Jason H'ng Mooi Lye is a Malaysian politician from DAP. He has been the Member of Penang State Executive Council for Local Government, and Town and Country Planning, and the Member of Penang State Legislative Assembly for Jawi since 2023. \n", "H'ng studied in SJK(C) Chong Kuang and SM Valdor. He has a Bachelor of Information Technology from the University of Southern Queensland.[1]\n", "H'ng joined DAP in 2012. He was the Publicity Secretary for DAP Sungai Duri branch from 2013 to 2014 and Secretary for DAP Nibong Tebal division from 2013 to 2015. He was also a member of Seberang Perai City Council from 2013 to 2018, and was the Chief Whip of Seberang Perai City Council from 2017 to 2018. He is currently the Organising Secretary for DAP Penang and the Chairman of DAP Nibong Tebal division.[1][2]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Hajiji_Noor.png", "name": "Hajiji_Noor", "overview": ["\n", "Datuk Seri Panglima Haji Hajiji bin Haji Noor (Jawi: \u0639\u0632\u064a\u0632\u064a \u0628\u0646 \u0646\u0648\u0631; born 10 May 1956) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the 16th Chief Minister of Sabah since September 2020 and Member of the Sabah State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Sulaman since October 1990. He is also the first official chairman of political coalition party in Sabah, the Gabungan Rakyat Sabah Party (GRS Party) and 3rd President of the Parti Gagasan Rakyat Sabah (GAGASAN).\n", "He was appointed Chief Minister in late September 2020 after his coalition, Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS), won 38 out of the 73 seats, in which 37 seats needed for a simple majority in the 2020 state election. His administration was further strengthened after three independent members of state legislative assembly (MLAs) pledged their support for the state government. \n[2]\n", "Hajiji was born in Kampung Serusup, Tuaran as the second of three children of Noor Harun and Teruyah Omar. He firstly attended the Serusup Native Primary School (SK Serusup) for his primary education in 1961 before going for his secondary education in Tuaran District Government Secondary School \u2013 now known as Badin Secondary School (SMK Badin) \u2013 in 1967. After getting 15 aggregates in Lower Certificate of Education examination, he was transferred to St. John's Secondary School in 1972 and excelled in Malaysian Certificate of Education examination as one of the best students in Tuaran after his high school graduation in 1974.[citation needed]\n", "Hajiji started his career as a public servant in 1976. He was tasked to be a radio announcer at Radio Televisyen Malaysia before being appointed as Assistant Development Officer at Tuaran District Office from 1977 to 1982.[citation needed]\n", "Hajiji entered politics in 1990 as he contested in the 8th general election as a candidate for Sulaman state constituency representing United Sabah National Organisation (USNO) and subsequently won. He was appointed as Political Secretary to Deputy Prime Minister Ghafar Baba from 1992 to 1993. He was also member of the Bank Rakyat's board of directors from 1991 to 1994.[citation needed]\n", "He joined United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) in 1994 following the dissolution of USNO. He became Tuaran Division Chief a year after until 2018 as well as Treasurer of UMNO Sabah from 2001 to 2018. He remained as an Assembly Member for Sulaman for six terms and is currently serving the seventh term after defeating two other candidates from Sabah Heritage Party (Warisan) and Love Sabah Party (PCS) in the recent state election.[3]\n", "He was appointed as Assistant Minister of State at the Ministry of Youth and Sports (for some times in 1994), Ministry of Industrial Development (1994 to 1996, and then 1999 to 2001), Chief Minister's Department (1996 to 1999) and Ministry of Finance (2001 to 2004). He was promoted as Minister of State for Housing and Local Government from 2004 to 2018 and as Deputy Chief Minister in the Ministry of Infrastructure Development for two days post 14th general election.\n", "Following the fall of BN in Sabah in 2018,[4] he was appointed Sabah UMNO Liaison Chairman. He later joined Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU) in 2018 and serves as the State chairman for Sabah since 2019.[5] Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin nominated Hajiji as Chief Minister if PN win the next state election.[6] Consequently, GRS, in which PN is a member, won the recent state election and moved to Governor Juhar Mahiruddin to name Hajiji as the next Chief Minister,[7] in which the nomination was affirmed by Juhar the day before Hajiji's swearing-in.[8]\n", "in March 2022, Hajiji became the first official chairman of the registered political coalition party in Sabah, named Gabungan Rakyat Sabah Party (GRS Party). The GRS under Hajiji's leadership then formed a unity government with Pakatan Harapan (PH), Barisan Nasional (BN), Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) and other parties in the aftermath of the 15th Malaysian General Election.[9] On 10 December 2022, Hajiji and other BERSATU Sabah leaders leave BERSATU and become direct members of GRS . \n", "On 07 Jan 2023, a political crisis began when Hajiji Noor lost support from 13 Sabah UMNO member due to the breach of agreement of GRS-PN-BN thus his is no longer the Chief Minister of Sabah with confirmed majority support from the Sabah House of Legislative Assembly and will be continuing to hold this position until the new Chief Minister is elected. [10] On 29 January 2023, Hajiji Noor announced to lead Sabah People's Idea Party (PGRS). He said PGRS will be used to continue the struggle as a local party in Sabah. He added, this is also intended to ensure that no more people deny the existence of the Chief Minister of Sabah and to stop the 2023 Sabah political crisis. PGRS was also accepted by the GRS coalition as a component party on 9 December 2022.[11] In May 2023, Hajiji Noor become the first Chief Minister of Sabah that successfully got the full majority to approved the Anti-Party Hopping Bill in Sabah for both Parliament and State Legislative Assembly.[12]\n", "Hajiji is married to Juliah Salag and has four children namely Mohd. Reza, Khairil Anuar, Nur Diyana and Mohd. Ghazali.\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://img.astroawani.com/2016-09/61474780188_HamisaSamat.jpg", "name": "Hamisa_Samat", "overview": ["\n", "Hamisa binti Samat is a Malaysian politician who has been the Assistant State Minister. She served as the Member of Sabah State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Tanjong Batu from March 2004 until September 2020. He was a member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) which is aligned with the ruling Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition both in federal and state levels.[1][2][3][4]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://i.malaysiakini.com/117/d48948b4be1ca8016d66f5c668779d0e.jpg", "name": "Hashim_Suboh", "overview": ["\nDatuk Hashim Suboh is a Malaysian politician from the Malaysian United Indigenous Party (UMNO), party of the Perikatan Nasional coalition. He is the former Deputy Chief of the party's Kangar division. Hashim made headlines in Malaysia in 2006 when he made a number of controversial remarks at the UMNO General Assembly that some labelled as seditious.[1]\n", "He currently is a member of Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU).\n", "In 2005, Education Minister and UMNO Youth Chief Hishammuddin Hussein brandished a kris (Malay dagger) at the UMNO General Assembly. The kris, named Panca Warisan, made another appearance at the 2006 General Assembly. On both occasions, it had been used in the context of defending certain special privileges accorded to the Malays under the Constitution of Malaysia. These privileges, sometimes referred to as the Malay Agenda, formed half of the Malaysian social contract, which granted citizenship to non-Malay Malaysians in return for special rights for the Malays. (Such special rights feature heavily in the ideal of ketuanan Melayu or Malay supremacy, which is a feature of UMNO's ideology.)\n", "It was after the second instance of Hishammuddin's actions that Hashim made headlines, when Hashim, speaking as a UMNO delegate from the state of Perlis, asked: \"Datuk Hisham has unsheathed his keris, waved his keris, kissed his keris. We want to ask Datuk Hisham when is he going to use it?\" He continued that \"force must be used against those who refused to abide by the social contract\", insisting that Hishammuddin be tougher in dealing with the Chinese national-type schools, which though publicly funded, are generally independent of the public national school system. Hashim's remark provoked a response from the opposition Democratic Action Party, which accused him of creating \"concern and disquiet among non-Malays in the country. The statements amount to sedition as they have a seditious tendency\".[2]\n", "The original Malay remark was: \"Dalam Perhimpunan Agung Umno ini, Datuk Hishammuddin dua kali berturut-turut angkat keris. Jadi, kita nak tanya bila Datuk Hishammuddin nak bertikam pulak?\"[3]  Translated literally, this would read: \"At this UMNO General Assembly, Datuk Hishammuddin has twice raised the keris, So, we want to ask when Datuk Hishammuddin will stab instead?\".\n", "Hashim was later reprimanded for his statement by UMNO.[4] He stated that he was surprised at the backlash, and that:\n", "I used the kris as a metaphor and not in its literal meaning. I was speaking about how the Education Minister should take proactive action towards certain issues relating to schools. ... Next year, I will choose my metaphors and words more carefully. I don\u2019t want to leave room for any misinterpretation.[5]"]}
+{"img_link": "https://www.sinarharian.com.my/uploads/images/2021/11/08/1261041.jpg", "name": "Hasnoor_Hussein", "overview": ["\nHasnoor Sidang Hussein is a Malaysian politician from the ruling United Malays National Organisation (UMNO). He became prominent in 2006 for his controversial remarks at the UMNO Annual General Assembly as a delegate from Malacca on the subject of racial issues. He later became the first, together with Azimi Daim and Hashim Suboh, to be officially reprimanded by UMNO for a speech made at an UMNO Annual General Assembly.\n", "The 2006 UMNO Annual General Assembly was the first ever to be telecast live. Hasnoor was among the delegates permitted to address the assembly, and like all others, his speech was carried live. In the course of his remarks, Hasnoor stated that non-Malay citizens needed to be grateful for having been granted citizenship at independence under the Malaysian social contract. He also spoke out against the non-Malays who were critical of the special position of the Malays and other members of the bumiputra (indigenous people) ethnic majority, stating: \"If they (non-Malays) question our rights, then we should question theirs. So far we have not heard the Malays questioning their right to citizenship when they came in droves from other countries.\"[1]\n", "The most controversial of his remarks, however, was his declaration that \"Umno is willing to risk lives and bathe in blood to defend the race and religion (Islam, the official religion of Malaysia and of the Malays). Don't play with fire. If they (non-Malays) mess with our rights, we will mess with theirs.\"[2] Hasnoor's remarks formed one third of the three disputed speeches made; another one was that by UMNO Youth Information Chief Azimi Daim, who said \"when tension rises, the blood of Malay warriors will run in our veins\", while the third was made by a delegate from Perak, Hashim Suboh, who referred to UMNO Youth Chief and Education Minister Hishammuddin Hussein's act of brandishing the kris (Malay dagger): \"Datuk Hisham has unsheathed his keris, waved his keris, kissed his keris. We want to ask Datuk Hisham when is he going to use it.\" As a result of the controversy, UMNO Deputy President and Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak announced that \"we are seriously looking into the wisdom of having (a) live telecast\" of the proceedings.[3]\n", "The speeches later became the subject of a debate in Parliament. Leader of the Opposition, Lim Kit Siang from the Democratic Action Party (DAP), said that \"The speeches have upset non-Malays and they are feeling insecure. It is sad that Malay leaders can still speak like this 50 years after independence. We feel excluded and threatened.\" He filed a motion to have the Dewan Rakyat (the lower house of Parliament) consider the subject of the speeches, but it was rejected by the Speaker. Another lawmaker from the DAP, Karpal Singh, accused Hasnoor and the other delegates of having committed sedition, which under the Sedition Act is a crime in Malaysia. Lim Keng Yaik, President of the Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (Malaysian People's Movement), a major party in the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition government led by UMNO, also expressed worry about \"where these sentiments will lead to\". Najib responded that \"Some inexperienced speakers got carried away,\" and assured them that \"We reject such sentiments ... this is not official policy.\" He also stated that the speakers were being investigated by the Police for the crime of sedition.[4]\n", "Soon after, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, President of UMNO and the Prime Minister, announced that three unidentified speakers at the assembly had been officially reprimanded for their statements. In Singapore, the Straits Times described this as \"the first time that Umno has taken action based on police reports and complaints by the opposition and non-Malay communities over the years on the same issue.\"[5] The following day, the UMNO-owned English daily, the New Straits Times, identified the three speakers as Hasnoor, Azimi and Hashim. Hasnoor said he \"told the party leadership that I was sorry for what I had said. It was not my intention to touch on racial sensitivities and to hurt the feelings of the other races.\" He also suggested that the proceedings of UMNO assemblies not be carried live in the future.[6]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Heah_Joo_Seang.jpg/220px-Heah_Joo_Seang.jpg", "name": "Heah_Joo_Seang", "overview": ["\n", "Heah Joo Seang (simplified Chinese: \u8fde\u88d5\u7965; traditional Chinese: \u9023\u88d5\u7965; pinyin: Li\u00e1n Y\u00f9xi\u00e1ng; Jyutping: Lin4 Jyu6 Coeng4; Pe\u030dh-\u014de-j\u012b: Li\u00e2n J\u016b-si\u00f4ng) was a Malayan politician, business leader, rubber magnate, philanthropist and especially a supporter of education. Malaysia, as it has since become, only existed after Joo Seang's death. His contributions span three distinct periods in the country's history: the British Malaya period, the Malayan Union period, and the Federation of Malaya period.\n", "The son of Heah Ah-Kia (or Heah Ah Kiah),[1][2] Joo Seang was born in Sungei Nibong Kechil, a small village in Province Wellesley, Penang on 2 November 1899.[3]\n", "Heah Joo Seang began his education at a Chinese school in his hometown. Later on, he was sent to live in Georgetown, Penang. His uncle, Heah Lye Hiang, registered him to study in St. Xavier's Institution, a Christian missionary school, founded in 1852. He sat for, and passed the Cambridge School Certificate when he was only fourteen years old. Later on in life, when Joo Seang became successful in business, and gain prominence in politics, SXI (as the school is popularly known to the local people) benefited from his generosity. His legacy and association with the school was forever engraved in its history, when the school auditorium (fully funded by him) was named after him. For him to have contributed so willingly, he must have felt a deep sense of gratitude towards his alma mater.[4]\n", "His working life began as a clerk in his uncle Heah Lye Hiang's tapioca mill, earning $40 a month.[5][6][7]\n", "Over the span of 15\u00a0years he had led three political parties \u2013 the Independence of Malaya Party, Party Negara and the Penang MCA as well as serving as national treasurer for the parent body. His last public appearance was during the official visit of MCA national President, Tan Siew-Sin, in March. Although he had lost his voice \u2013 he had already been ill when he travelled through Borneo on party business in February \u2013 he insisted on addressing the Alliance rally in Siew-Sin's honour. Soon after he flew to England for a throat operation. He died in Brompton Hospital on 14 May.[8] He died in London on 14 May 1962, leaving behind a wife, Lim Soh-Liang (or Lim Su-Lian),[5][9] eight sons (Heah Hock-Khoon, Heah Hock-Soon, Heah Hock-Lye, Heah Hock-Meng, Heah Hock-Thye, Heah Hock-Aun, Heah Hock-Hin, Heah Hock-Heng), three daughters (Beng-Hong, Phee-Hong, Kwee-Hong), one son-in-law, six daughters-in-law and 15 grandchildren to mourn his loss.[10] Unknown to many, Joo Seang has a second wife. Her name is Eu Phooi Chen. It was quite common at that time for wealthy men (especially among ethnic Chinese) to have more than one wife. It was during the period of the Japanese occupation of Malaya when Phooi Chen had borne him two sons namely Paul Heah Hock Teik (born 1942) and Jeffrey Heah Hock Hai (born 1944).[11]\n", "About a thousand people gathered at the Penang Bayan Lepas airport to receive his body which was flown back from London.[12]\n", "His family had decided to follow the old custom concerning death that happens outside of a person's home \u2013 when a person dies outside of his home, he cannot be brought back into the house. Accordingly, when he was welcomed at the airport, they did so as if he were still alive. There was no weeping and no black clothes or other signs of mourning until his body was back at his mansion, \"Goodwood,\" in Macalister Road, and his death then announced by a representative of the family. His body was borne in a coffin draped in red and was accompanied by a motorcade nearly five (5) miles long.[8][13] The announcement of his death was made by Rev. Soo Hneah Hee Seong, a \"kee-tong\" (medium), after which the mourning officially began. his body lay in state until Sunday, 21 May 1962 where it was removed for burial at the Kwangtung and Tengchow Cemetery at Mount Erskine.[14]\n", "Malayan Chinese Association (MCA) national President, Tan Siew Sin said, the death of Heah Joo Seang left a gap that would be difficult to fill. \"He was a tower of strength nor only to the MCA's central working committee but also the Penang organisation,\" the President wrote in a letter to Joo Seang's eldest son, Heah Hock-Khoon. \"He infused new life into the Penang MCA and their loss is indeed a very grievous one... ...Apart from the MCA, the country will always remember him for his munificent gifts to charities and deserving institutions... ...I think it is only right that I should put these sentiments on record.\"[15]\n", "La Sallean Brother Visitor T. Michael said the Christian Brothers had reason to grieve over the loss of a \"great old boy and a very generous benefactor.\" He said that Joo Seang was unsparing in his attachment to his old school and worked towards its progress and improvement with genuine affection and loyalty. In referring to two new schools completed at Jalan Brother James and Kampong Bharu, he said, \"These schools will stand as monuments to a public-spirited citizen whose departure leaves a gap which it will be very difficult to fill.\"[16]\n", "Reporting on his funeral, the Straits Times noted, \"Crowds swelling to well over 50,000 lined an eight-mile route today for the funeral of the late Mr. Heah Joo Seang, millionaire rubber magnate and Penang MCA President, whose body was flown home last week from London where he died on May 14. The two-mile procession in which 15 associations and 12 schools took part, was the longest seen in Penang for many years. 5,000 people. Three Cabinet Ministers together with the Governor of Penang, Raja Tun Uda Al-Haj, and the Chief Minister, Inche Aziz Ibrahim, were among the 5,000 people who followed the hearse on its last journey. Early arrivals were Tun Leong Yew Koh, Minister of Justice, Mr. Tan Siew Sin, Minister of Finance and National President of the MCA, Dato Ong Yoke Lin, Minister of Health and Social Welfare, and Mr. Cheah Theam Swee, assistant Minister of Commerce and Industry. The Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, the Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, and the Governor, Raja Tun Uda Al-Haj, were among those who sent wreaths. Crowds started to gather from an early hour. Before the procession lined up, the coffin was taken out of the Heah mansion, Goodwood, in Macalister Road, and laid on the lawn where representatives of various schools and organisations paid their last respects to the late Mr. Heah. Mr. Yeo Hui Tung, a leader of the Teochew community, then read out an eulogy. Although timed to start at 11.30 a.m., the procession could not get moving until 12.15 p.m. Led by Senator Cheah Seng Khim and other members of the funeral committee, it proceeded along Macalister Road to the Church of Seven Sorrows where the first stage of the procession broke up. 'Last look.' It re-assembled later in front of the Teochew Association at Chulia Street and made its way to Beach Street to give the late Mr. Heah a \"last look\" at his office, Hock Lye Co., Ltd. The hearse, followed by 200 cars, then proceeded to Mount Erskine Cemetery where the burial took place at 5. p.m. after full Buddhist rites. Three school bands\u2014St. Xavier's corps of drums and the Han Chiang and Jit Sin High School bands\u2014marched with the procession. Among the 15 political parties, local guilds and associations which took part were UMNO and MCA youths, MCA women, UMNO and MIC members, the Teochew Hoay Kuan, the Kwangtung and Tengchow Associations, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and the Penang Rubber Trade Association. Flags of various clubs and associations with which the late Mr. Heah was actively connected flew their flags at half-mast today.\"[17]\n", "A Heah Joo Seang Scholarship Fund was set up in his memory, his family contributing $10,000 to get the fund going.[18]\n", "He was Managing Partner of Hin Giap, the largest rubber exporter in Penang, and one of the biggest employers of labour of Malaya in 1931;[19] Chairman of Amalgamated Amusements (1932\u20131937); Chairman of Lam Seng Cheong (Ipoh); Chairman of Synn Cheong and Company (Taiping); Director of Khiam Seng Trading Company (Ipoh); Director of Kim Hin Company; and owner of Heah Joo Seang Rubber Estates.[5] He was also the Proprietor of the Wembley Dance Hall, Penang.[20]\n", "Following a notice in the Straits Times in August, Joo-Seang had bought from the Federation's Custodian of Property, about 26,000 acres of rubber estate land in Johore, at $6,000,000, by the start of October 1951. The transaction was the biggest of its kind up to that time involved property in the Kota Tinggi area and included Pengerang (4,632 acres), Senti (7,711), Belungkor (813), Telok Sengat (8,173), Sungei Ambok (843), Nanyo (3,089), Asahi (1,079), Sungei Seluyut (574), Tanjong Buai (132), and Buntu (425).[7][21] This, on top of everything else he had done, pushed him to the forefront of the rubber business. He also actively led the industry to resolve issues. In February 1951 he convened and presided over a meeting of Penang merchants, both European and Asian, at the Penang Rubber Exchange to address the breakdown in discussions between the Penang Employers' Association and the owners of local lighters, the latter of whom were demanding a 25 percent increase in rates. The breakdown between the parties had negatively affected the trade of Penang. The matter, now being brought back to the table was resolved, and trading resumed.[6]\n", "He advocated finding new uses for natural rubber including laying rubber roads and rubber flooring in offices.[7]\n", "At a dinner hosted by the Penang Rubber Trade Association on 18 March 1961 to celebrate his Johan Mangku Negara award from the King, Joo Seang, then still the President of the association, said he would still be engaged in the rubber trade if he had to live his life over. \"It is a fascinating game in which one has to pit one's brains against the world.\" He had been connected to the organisation for a long time, having first served that body as Honorary Secretary, forty (40) years earlier.[22][23]\n", "Who's Who in Malaya 1939: A Biographical Record of Prominent Members of Malaya's Community in Official, Professional and Commercial Circles, Singapore: Fishers Ltd (1939) provides a summary of the varied roles that Joo Seang played in Malaya:[7][24]\n", "He was also\n", "He was also President, Li Tek Siah; President, Chinese Benevolent Association; President, Rubber Trade Association; President, Federation of Malaya Rubber Trade Association,[26] Member of the Board of Managers of St. Xavier's Institution, Chairman, Han Chiang School[6] and bore office among very many other organisations.[5]\n", "On August 1956, Heah Joo Seang hosted a dinner at his residence (the Goodwood mansion) in MacAlister road, Georgetown, Penang, in honour of the visit of Lord William Reid. Lord Reid was the Chairman of the Commission which was set up in England for the purpose of drafting and defining the Constitution of the Federation of Malaya. During his dinner speech, Lord Reid said, \"We intend to do our utmost to leave some trace of your devotion to this Country in the shape of the Constitution\", in reference to Joo Seang's championing of the rights of the straits born Chinese.[41]\n", "The drafting of the Constitution of the Federation of Malaya began the process toward the establishment of a new Government, after England agreed to concede independence to Malaya. The Commission was set up in March 1956 to seek \"the views of political parties, non-government organization and individuals on the form of government and racial structure appropriate to this Country\".\n", "Joo Seang was a strong supporter of Malayan politician Sir Onn Jaafar, founder of the United Malays National Organisation and Chief Minister of Johore. When the latter was facing political attacks, shortly after the Onn retired as Member for Home Affairs and Chairman of the Rural and Industrial Development Authority, Joo Seang, said in his defence, \"Sir Onn has been falsely accused of being anti-Chinese. He has been severely criticised by some so-called Malay leaders who only want to gratify their own selfish ends.\"[42]\n", "Joo Seang was passionate about sports and education and these, more than anything attracted his interest. While not a comprehensive list, some of his gifts included:\n", "In January 1961 he was awarded the Johan Mangku Negara (JMN) at the King's installation honours that year.[22][56][59]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://www.theborneopost.com/newsimages/2016/04/myy-bp-140416-maj-hii.jpg", "name": "Hii_King_Chiong", "overview": ["\n", "Hii King Chiong (simplified Chinese: \u8bb8\u5e86\u748b; traditional Chinese: \u8a31\u6176\u748b; pinyin: X\u01d4 Q\u00ecng Zh\u0101ng; Jyutping: Heoi2 Hing3 Zoeng1; Pe\u030dh-\u014de-j\u012b: Kh\u00f3\u0358 Kh\u00e8ng-chiong; born 30 November 1957 in Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia) is a businessman and philanthropist.[1] In recognition of his meritorious philanthropist activities and contributions to the State of Sarawak, government, and the people, he was conferred with Ahli Bintang Sarawak (A.B.S.)[2] \u2013 Member of the Order of the Star of Sarawak by The Governor of Sarawak.\n", "Hii King Chiong is a Malaysian Chinese and of Foochow descent. He is married with Madam Ting Hua Eng with whom they had a son and a daughter. His father, YBhg. Datuk Hii Yii Peng who is a businessman in Sibu, always teach him the importance of contributing back to the society once successful. This has become his main life perspective. He was educated at Methodist Primary School and Sacred Heart Secondary School in Sibu. Upon his high school graduation, he took GCE 'O' Level at St. Patrick's Secondary School, Singapore, followed by GCE 'A' Level at Acton Technical College, London, United Kingdom. King Chiong graduated with Diploma in Business Studies, from University of Wolverhampton, England, UK. He further study to deepen his business knowledge, and obtained a Master of Business Administration.\n", "Following his return to Sarawak, he applies what he learned from his university to expand the family business, into another stage of success.\n", "He joined Sarawak United Peoples' Party (SUPP), Sibu Branch in 2006. He supports the party continuously by helping to campaign and making financial contributions. Hii served on the SUPP Piasau Branch Committee and as the Pro Tem chairman from 2012 to 2014.[3] Hii's success in his political career is based largely on his accessibility to the community[4] in Miri.\n", "In 2016 he filed an election petition in Pujut, claiming that opposing candidate, Dr Ting Tiong Choon was ineligible to run in the election as he had dual citizenship.[5][6] Despite this, Hii lost the election, but regularly campaigns on behalf of BN candidates in the region.[7]\n", "Hii King Chiong has over numerous years, involved himself in different responsible capacities in various social bodies, including but not limited to schools, social associations, and so forth. He set-ups two service centres in Miri,[8] recruited volunteers and has since solved many problems faced by the Miri Society.\n", "Hii's philanthropy is focused on Chinese education, he works together with associations to negotiate the best for Chinese education and hoped that one day it would have the kind of recognition enjoyed by government schools. The association board of management continues to bear heavy financial constraints to solve problems, such as old and dilapidated wooden building. He however, upon losing in the Sarawak State Election 2016 for the seat of Pujut, refused to concede although losing by wide margin and challenged the results which was rejected by election court. He appealed to the Federal Court, hoping the court would declare him as winner by disqualifying Dr Ting Tiong Choon of DAP on dual citizenship technicalities.[9]\n", "The below shows some known offices held under the nomination by the associations.\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Akmar_Hisham_Mokles_receiving_the_PKN_Award..jpg/250px-Akmar_Hisham_Mokles_receiving_the_PKN_Award..jpg", "name": "Akmar_Hisham", "overview": ["\n", "Datuk Akmar Hisham Bin Mohd Yusof @ Mokhles (born 1972) is the press secretary for the prime minister of Malaysia.  Akmar Hisham is also a member of the advisory panel for Wasatiyyah Institute Malaysia which promotes moderate Islamic values.[1] He is also involved in non-governmental and charity organization.[2]\n", "Akmar Hisham was born and raised in Parit, Perak, Malaysia. He is married to Datin Hazrina Binti Abdul Rahman. The couple have a daughter Aisyah Nabilah Binti Akmar Hisham.\n", "A native of Parit, Perak, Akmar Hisham completed his primary and secondary education from January 1979 to December 1991 at Sekolah Rendah Kebangsaan Iskandar Shah (Primary) and later Sekolah Menengah Iskandar Shah (Secondary) both in Parit Perak. He completed his school studies after obtaining his Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia.[3] After that, he continued his studies in University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur from July 1992 to March 1996. He was awarded a Bachelor of Literature (Social Administration).\n", "Akmar Hisham started his career as a journalist for Utusan Malaysia (M) Bhd from May 1997 till September 2004.\n", "Akmar Hisham was the press secretary for the Defence Minister (May 2004 \u2013 September 2008) and for the Finance Minister (September 2008 -September 2009) before becoming the Press Secretary for the Prime Minister (16 September 2009).\n", "Akmar Hisham is also actively involved in community, youth and charity project. He is the Deputy President of Kelab Sahabat Bina Negara (Nation Building Club), advisor of the Kelab Eksporasi 7 Benua Malaysia (Malaysia's 7 Continent Exploration Club), Patron of the Persatuan Generasi Bestari Selangor (Selangor's Intelligent Generation Association) and Advisor of the 1 Malaysia English Channel Unity Mission.\nAkmar Hisham is the advisor of the Felda Everest Project 2013 and also the KE7B Felda Greenland 2014 Expedition.[4][5]\n", "Darjah Pangkuan Seri Melaka (DPSM) which carries the title Datuk, the lowest level title compare to the English title of Sir.[6][7]\n", "During the 2013 Lahad Datu standoff, Datuk Akmar Hisham Mokhles was ordered by the Malaysian Prime Minister to assist the Malaysian security forces in the said conflicts area. For his courage and valor he was conferred the Pingat Kedaulatan Negara Medal. Akmar Hisham is one of the 227 media operatives who receive the medal from the Prime Minister.[8]\n", "2013: Book:  \"Najib Razak: Merintis Jalan Damai\" author\n", "2012: Book: \u201cBerkongsi Denyut Nadi Rakyat\u201d author\n", "2011: Book:\u201cMenyelami Denyut Nadi Rakyat\u201d author\n", "2010: Comic: \u201cTransformasi Najib\u201d and \u201cNajib Transformation\u201d author\n", "2010: Book: \u201cNajib: Beginning of A Legacy\u201d. Commemorating One Year As Prime Minister of Malaysia. Editor\n", "2009: Book: \u201cNajib Tun Razak Pewaris Kepimpinan, Pemacu Perubahan\u201d author and editor.\n", "2009: Book: \u201cInheriting A Legacy, Fast Tracking Change\u201d  editor.\n", "2007: Book:\u201cSehati Sejiwa Najib Tun Razak\u201d author and coordinator.\n", "2006: Book:\u201dPetronas Silk Road Adventure 2001: Istanbul-Putrajaya Experience The Expedition\u201d published by Petronas Motorsports. Photographer\n", "2002: Magazine: Columnist for Massa magazine published by Utusan Melayu (M) Bhd\n", "April 2014: Ekspedisi KE7B Greenland Felda 2014\n", "March 2014: Mendaki Gunung Cosciousco, Australia.\n", "May 2013: Projek Everest Felda 2013\n", "March 2013: Mendaki Gunung Kinabalu\n", "October 2012: Ranjini Mountain Expedition, Indonesia.\n", "September 2012: 1Malaysia English Channel Mission.[9][10]\n", "July 2011: A Step to the Earth's Roof (Everest Base Camp and Kalapatar Mountain, Nepal)\n", "November 2010: Cosciousco Mountain Australia\n", "April 2004: Army Chaellenge 2004\n", "July 2001: Petronas Silk Road Adventure 2001, Istanbul- Putrajaya\n", "May 2001: Elephant Mud Hole 2: 4X4 Challenge 2001\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://i.malaysiakini.com/1005/205da2c44915192b708d642645476d29.jpg=s800", "name": "Hishamuddin_Rais", "overview": ["\n", "Hishamuddin Rais (also known under the pen-name of Isha Raism) is a Malaysian film director, stand-up comedian, political and social activist. He is also notable as a columnist for several newspapers including Berita Minggu, The Sun, Malaysiakini.com and Off The Edge.[1]\n", "Hishamuddin completed his secondary education at the Malay College Kuala Kangsar. He obtained his degree in South East Asia History in 1971 from University of Malaya. He is also a film and video graduate from the University of Westminster, London.\n", "He is fluent in the French language.\n", "Hishamuddin has produced and directed several films, namely:\n", "Hishamuddin is also a notable stand-up comedian, having performed several shows in Malaysia and in foreign countries, most recently in the United Kingdom.[5]\n", "Hishamuddin was actively involved in campus politics while he was still studying at the rsity of M alaya. His subsequent entry into Malaysian politics came after he returned to Malaysia in 1994 after having graduated in film and video from the University of Westminster, London in 1992. He organised several street demonstrations from 1998 to 2000 following the ouster of the deputy prime minister of Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim.\n", "In 2001, Hishamuddin was arrested under the section 71(3) of the Internal Security Act 1984 on the charge of conspiracy to overthrow the government with threats and violence.\n", "In 2013, together with Tian Chua and Adam Adli Abdul Halim, Hishammuddin was charged with sedition for their speeches at Kuala Lumpur Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall on May 13.[6]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ms/4/49/Paksako1.jpg", "name": "Ishak_Haji_Muhammad", "overview": ["\nIshak Haji Muhammad (14 November 1909 \u2013 7 November 1991),  better known as Pak Sako, was a Malaysian writer, active in the 1930s until the 1950s. He was a nationalist and his involvement began before independence and continued thereafter. He fought for the idea of the unification of Melayu Raya where Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei are united in one collective.\n", "The moniker Pak Sako was from the title 'Isako-san' given to him by the Japanese, which was the phonetic pronunciation of his name in the Japanese tongue. Ishak's other pseudonyms include Anwar, Hantu Raya (The Great Ghost), Isako San and Pandir Moden (The Modern-day Pandir)\n", "Ishak was born in 1909 in Kampung Bukit Seguntang, Temerloh, Pahang and received his early education at the Kg. Tengah Malay School, Temerloh in 1919 and continued his education at the  Clifford High School, Kuala Lipis from 1924 to 1928. He received his certificate of education from the Raub English School in 1929.  In 1930, he went to the Malay College Kuala Kangsar (MCKK) to train as an officer in the Malayan Civil Service. He held posts as Assistant Deputy District Officer, a Class III Magistrate and a language teacher before entering the literary scene. He attended the Malayan Communist Party in 1941 before the Japanese Occupation of Malaya and became a central committee member of MCP along with Rashid Maidin, Ahmad Boestamam and Abdullah CD in Perak.\n", "Ishak grew bored with his job as a British administrator and found the life of a British civil servant full of deception, favouritism and no interest in preserving the interests of the Malays who were said to have been given protection by the British. In 1934, he resigned from the Malayan Civil Service and travelled the peninsula Malaya. He later concentrated on nationalist literature and politics. He was imprisoned twice (1948\u20131953; 1965\u20131966).\n", "Ishak was the first with the idea to publish the Utusan Melayu (The Malay Post) newspaper and subsequently became the founder of the publication. He left Warta Malaya (Malayan Times) and travelled to Pahang, Kelantan and Terengganu to campaign for the establishment of the Utusan Melayu Press. He worked at the paper under Abdul Rahim Kajai as editor. During the Japanese occupation of Malaya, he became the editor of Berita Malai (Malayan News).\n", "He continued to live in Hulu Langat even though he worked in Kuala Lumpur. He would take the public transport to office. For a while, he did have a Fiat when he was working in Rembau, but he did not drive and had to hire a driver.[1]\n", "Ishak produced many novels, short stories, essays and memoirs as well as writing articles for the Utusan Melayu Group's newspapers. The National Library of Malaysia has, in their collection, more than 1,000 copies of his literary work.\n", "His two most well-known works are Putera Gunung Tahan (The Prince of Mount Tahan) and Anak Mat Lela Gila (The Son of Crazy Mat Lela), which reflected his views and aspirations as a patriot and writer. They were satire novels aimed at the British and also were a critique of the British. Ishak placed importance on Malay culture in his writings and glorified Malay culture by comparing it to English culture which is said to lack quality and is too aggressive. He was also active in short story-writing.\n", "Below is a sample of his other works:\n", "In his later years, he was more known as a columnist in Utusan Malaysia and Gila-Gila (a local satire magazine).\n", "As tribute for his contributions, the University of Malaya awarded him an Honorary Doctorate of Literature on 29 June 1973.  On 29 May 1976, Ishaak received the Pejuang Sastera (Literary Exponent) Award from the Prime Minister.\n", "He died on 7 November 1991 at 5.40 am at his home in Kampung Bukit Raya, in Hulu Langat, Selangor. He was buried in his childhood village in Temerloh, after the Friday prayers, next to the graves of his parents, in accordance with his wishes.[1] He had been admitted to the Tawakal Hospital on 18 October after suffering from a stroke, and had just left the hospital for two weeks before he died. Earlier in the year, he had suffered another stroke and was admitted to the Kuala Lumpur General Hospital on 22 July. That attack left his right side paralysed.[2]\n", "As tribute, UMNO donated RM16,874.15 to his family at the close of its General Assembly that year. RM10,000 came from the UMNO headquarters while the remainder was contributed by its delegates during the assembly. It was presented by the Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad to the Chief Minister of Pahang, Khalil Yaacob to be given to his family.[3]\n", "Several places and honours were named after him, including:\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://www.sabahgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/jamawi.jpg", "name": "Jamawi_Ja%27afar", "overview": ["\n", "Jamawi bin Ja'afar is a Malaysian politician from Sabah region and currently represent the PGRS-GRS side. He was the Former Member of Sabah State Legislative Assembly for Kemabong from 2018 until 2020. He become the Division Leader of Melalap branch PGRS-GRS in March 2023.\n", "He was the Youth Chief of UMNO Tenom Division and Youth Information Chief of UMNO.[1] He quit UMNO in 2018 and then later joined WARISAN with the reason to support Sabah local party. In 2020, he quit WARISAN because of PSS controversies and rejoined UMNO as alternative choices. After BN-UMNO got lose streak and lost many seats in Malaysia General Election in November 2022, he decided to joining GRS through GRS direct membership constitution. In February 2023, he has confirmed to support and joining Sabah local party namely PGRS, one of the major component party of GRS. In March 2023, he officially become the Division Leader of Melalap branch PGRS\u2013GRS. In October 17, 2023, he has confirmed that Tenom parliamentary branch of PGRS\u2013GRS has successfully reached 5,000 membership.\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://scontent.fkul8-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/242241204_261407742653706_7612932876664490483_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=efb6e6&_nc_ohc=KNsytuR1L30AX9j40ew&_nc_pt=1&_nc_ht=scontent.fkul8-2.fna&cb_e2o_trans=q&oh=00_AfCCUIqgc2BIya838QQQJfthuf-de6xPE6wUrR2iYOxAMQ&oe=65B06381", "name": "Jaujan_Sambakong", "overview": ["\n", "Datuk Jaujan bin Sambakong is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Member of Sabah State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Sulabayan since May 2013. He served as the Deputy Chief Minister of Sabah III and State Minister of Housing and Local Government of Sabah in the Heritage Party (WARISAN) state administration under former Chief Minister Shafie Apdal from May 2018 to the collapse of the WARISAN state administration in September 2020. He is a member of WARISAN. He was a member of the United Malays National Organisation of Sabah (Sabah UMNO), a branch of a component party of the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition.[1][2][3][4]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://parlimen.gov.my/images/webuser/ahli/2013/YBS%20Datuk%20John%20Ambrose%20(D).png", "name": "John_Ambrose_(politician)", "overview": ["\n", "John Ambrose Dumpangol (born 1 March 1952) is a Malaysian politician who served as the Senator from January 2018 to January 2024. He is a member of the Parti Gagasan Rakyat Sabah (GAGASAN), a component party of the Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) coalition and was a member of Malaysian United Indigenous Party of Sabah (Sabah BERSATU), a former component party branch of the GRS coalition and component party of the Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition and was a member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a component party of the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition.[1][2] He left UMNO on 13 December 2018,[3] joined BERSATU on 15 March 2019 and moved to Sabah BERSATU after its formation on 6 April 2019. He left Sabah BERSATU on 10 December 2022.[4][5][6] and joined GAGASAN on 5 February 2023. He is of Kadazan-Dusun descent and is a Christian of the Roman Catholic denomination.[2]\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": null, "name": "Kamarulzaman_Teh", "overview": ["Kamarulzaman Teh (15 January 1920 \u2013 5 November 2002), who was imprisoned in the Federation of Malaya for 22 years, is the longest political detainee in Malaysia's history.[1] He was the leader of Angkatan Pemuda Insaf (API), who fought the Japanese during the Japanese occupation of Malaya.\n", "Kamarulzaman was born into a family of Malay farmers in  Temerloh, Pahang. He joined Parti Kebangsaan Melayu Malaya (PKMM) during the Japanese occupation in Malaya to fight against the Japanese army. He was very enthusiastic about the party as he saw socialism as a way to conquer poverty in his state through taxation of landowners. He was also attracted to guerrilla warfare, which he thought of as the most effective way to counter the Imperial Japanese army. Ultimately, he was elected as the head of the youth wing in Angkatan Pemuda Insaf (API) of Pahang.[2]\n", "During the Malayan Emergency in 1948, the British took Kamarulzaman into custody in a bus station in Temerloh, without further investigation. He was also charged with owning firearms. He was sentenced to death by hanging, but was later granted a royal pardon from the Sultan of Pahang. His charge was reduced to life imprisonment instead. He spent the following 14 years in the prison at Temerloh. Following the departure of the British, he was released, but placed under surveillance. However, his freedom was short-lived, as he was arrested and detained under the Internal Security Act for another eight years.[3]\n", "Following his release, Kamarulzaman joined Parti Sosialis Rakyat Malaysia (now Parti Rakyat Malaysia) and campaigned unsuccessfully for election in 1974. Even with his loss, he remained actively involved in PRM throughout the seventies.[4]\n", "Kamarulzaman's health slowly deteriorated. Because his family had difficulties paying his medical bills, he was taken care of by his adopted sister and her husband. He was put in a home for the elderly in Kuala Lumpur. His health worsened in July 2002, and he was moved from Kuala Lumpur back to his hometown in Temerloh.\n", "After returning to Temerloh, he went to southern Thailand to reunite with his old comrades. His friends included General Secretary of the Communist Party of Malaya, Abdullah CD and Chin Peng. He also reunited with his friend Rashid Maidin when Rashid visited him in the nursing home. At that time, he was immobile and no longer able to recognise people due to his severe health problems.[5] He died in Thailand at 10:30 am on 5 November 2002. He was buried in the Muslim graveyard at Narathiwat Province that same day.\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://malaysiagazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/karim-bujang.jpg", "name": "Karim_Bujang", "overview": ["Karim bin Bujang is a Malaysian politician from WARISAN. He was the Member of Sabah State Legislative Assembly for Bongawan from 1990 to 2013. \n", "He was a member of USNO before it merged with BERJAYA to form UMNO Sabah in 1991. He had held the post of Secretary-general of Barisan Nasional Sabah. In 2018, he joined WARISAN and contested for the Kimanis federal seat and 2020 Kimanis by-election.[1]\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://dewannegeri.johor.gov.my/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/YB-PUAN-HAJAH-KHAIRIN-NISA.jpg", "name": "Khairin_Nisa", "overview": ["\n", "Hajah Khairin Nisa binti Ismail is a Malaysian lawyer and politician. A member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), she is the Member of the Johor State Legislative Assembly for Serom since 2022.\n", "Before joining politics, she graduated from International Islamic University (IIU) and opened a law firm named after her, Khairin-Nisa & Co., in Muar, Johor on 23 May 1990.[1]\n", "In the 2022 Johor state election, she contested for Serom under the Barisan Nasional (BN) banner and defeated 4 other candidates \u2014 Rahmat Daud from the Perikatan Nasional (PN), Asim Abdullah from the Pakatan Harapan (PH), and Azim Malek from the Homeland Fighters' Party (PEJUANG).[2] Within her party, she also serves Women Division Chief in Ledang.[3]\n", "She sworn as one of the Johor State Executive Councilor on 26 March 2022.[4]\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": null, "name": "Khamsiyah_Yeop", "overview": ["Khamsiyah binti Yeop is a Malaysian politician and former Deputy Minister of Entrepreneur and Co-operatives Development.\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": null, "name": "Kontik_Kamariah_Ahmad", "overview": ["Tan Sri Datin Sri Cempaka Kontik Kamariah binti Ahmad (5 August 1911 \u2013 17 August 2006)[1][2] scored many \u201cfirsts\u201d for women in the co-operative movement, education and politics in Malaysia.\n", "Born in Kampung Seputih, Kuala Lumpur on Aug 5, 1911, Kamariah was educated at a Malay school in her village and then Methodist Girls School Kuala Lumpur (MGSKL) where she emerged as the first Malay girl in Malaysia to pass the Senior Cambridge examination in 1928. Her father was businessman-politician Ahmad Panglima Garang Ishak.\n", "She had her teacher training at Victoria Institution (VI) before she was made supervisor of Malay schools in Selangor in 1932-45 and 1948-56 \u2013 the first woman to hold the post.\n", "She also excelled in the cooperative movement and was the chairman of the Co-op Union of Malaya (now Malaysia) \u2013 the only woman to hold the post.\n", "In 1948, when teachers could not get loans, she helped set up the Selangor Co-op and Thrift and Loans Society. She later helped set up the Selangor Government Officers Housing Co-operative which built a housing project in 1954 and named it Taman Kamariah in her honour.\n", "For her contributions to the cooperative movement, she was awarded a British Empire Medal.\n", "In politics, she was active in UMNO's Kaum Ibu wing, the forerunner of Wanita Umno, and served as Kampung Baru branch secretary and Gombak Setia Umno committee member. She was also active in Pertiwi, an Islamic women's activist group.\n", "The Sultan of Selangor, Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah appointed her as Orang Kaya Maha Bijaya (a traditional title for a native overlord) for the Gombak district in 1979 \u2013 the first woman so honoured.\n", "In 1996, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong conferred on her the Panglima Setia Mahkota, which carries the title Tan Sri.\n", "Kamariah died on 17 August 2006 at the age of 95 and was buried at the Jalan Ampang Muslim Cemetery, Kuala Lumpur. She is survived by a son and a daughter.\n", "\n", "This Malaysian biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it."]}
+{"img_link": "https://assets.nst.com.my/images/articles/1603nstDevaki01_1678938480.jpg", "name": "Devaki_Krishnan", "overview": ["\n", "Tan Sri Devaki Ayathurai Krishnan (Tamil: \u0ba4\u0bc7\u0bb5\u0b95\u0bbf \u0b95\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0bb7\u0bcd\u0ba3\u0ba9\u0bcd) (born 11 March 1923) is a Malaysian politician. She became the first woman be elected to public office in Malaysia when she won a seat on the Municipal Council in Kuala Lumpur in 1952. She is currently a life member of the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC).\n", "Of Sri Lankan Tamil descent, Devaki was born in Port Dickson, Negri Sembilan, and was the eldest of six children. Her father was acting controller of Post and Telecoms Malaya, and her mother was a college-trained Tamil school teacher.\n", "She was educated at St. Mary's School, Kuala Lumpur. Upon graduation she became a school teacher. In 1949, she became an active member of the Selangor Indian Association where she served as chairman of the entertainment and social committee. She was also actively involved in the Women's International Club where she spent her time raising funds for disaster victims.\n", "In December 1951, Devaki learned from her husband that the community had nominated her to stand for election in the Kuala Lumpur Municipal elections. She was then approached by the late Dato' Onn Jaafar to become a member of the Independence of Malaya Party (IMP). \"When I stood as a candidate, I needed help to address the audience, so I would sit with Datuk Onn and another lawyer, R. Ramani, at his office,\" she recalls, adding that the IMP quarters were in what is now the landmark Sultan Abdul Samad Building. In her 1952 election manifesto, she stated, \"I will interest myself particularly in the lot of the women of Kuala Lumpur and in extending the programme of social work already carried out by the municipality.\" Devaki won election to the Municipal Council, thus becoming the first woman in the country to be elected to public office.\n", "In 1955, she stood for a second term for the municipal council in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur, and won. After her victory, she was paraded in an open-top car, accompanied by over 50 cars along Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Kuala Lumpur.\n", "After the election, Krishnan became a member of the Malayan Indian Congress (MIC), which was then only a social and welfare association. She contested for the Sentul constituency in the 1959 state election under the Alliance ticket but lost.\n", "Krishnan was also a champion for the involvement of women in the Malaysian political system. In those days, most women stayed at home. Wanita (Women) MIC was created in 1975. Devaki recruited women throughout the nation for this branch of the party, with considerable her success. \"No one taught them to come out as they were shy and had strict upbringings. Wherever they opened branches in MIC, I would open a women's branch. I will take the women aside, talk to them, and tell them what they would gain and how they could go about becoming members.\" In 1975, Devaki was appointed Wanita MIC secretary and Wanita deputy president in 1984 (a position she held for 10 years).\n", "She also served as vice-president of the Selangor MIC and chairman of the Selangor Wanita MIC. She became the first chairman of the MIC marriage bureau which was set up in 1984.\n", "Krishnan currently serves as the Chairman of MIC Syed Putra branch. She continues to recruit women members for MIC and encourage MIC members to register as voters. In August 2021, she was noted as being the longest standing member of the party.[2]\n", "Devaki joined the Civil Defence Corp in 1953 where she underwent training in fire fighting and welfare. She was later made an instructor. Her intensive training paid off during the May 1969 riots when Devaki helped take care of the riot victims and homeless, numbering around 3,500, at Stadium Merdeka. She was in charge of the medical clinic, and continued serving there for several months until all the victims had been cared for and released.\n", "She was a committee member of the Indian Welfare Society, the Family Planning Association of Selangor, the Pure Life Society and chairman of the St John's Ambulance Association. She served on the Social Welfare Committee of Kuala Lumpur for over 15 years and was a committee member of the Tengku Budriah Orphanage and the Serendah Boys Home. She is also a Juvenile Court adviser.\n", "Devaki, an active member in women organisations, is also an Executive Council member of the National Council of Women's Organisation (NCWO). She was also instrumental in the passing of the Guardianship Act 1999. \"We had to canvass even from the opposition, and the National Council of Women's Organisation (NCWO) was the main vehicle. What took 12 years was worth it as it managed to allow single women to take care of their children.\"\n", "Her husband, P. Krishnan, was a wealthy and successful businessman and was not involved in politics. He died in 1998. She has three children and five grandchildren. Devaki's eldest grandson Ramanan Ramakrishnan was a former MIC treasurer and currently Member of Parliament for Sungai Buloh under the Pakatan Harapan banner.\n", "She turned 100 on March 11, 2023.[3]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://media.thestar.com.my/Prod/F4CAACDE-773B-4A87-B390-9BCF20015A80", "name": "Jennifer_Lasimbang", "overview": ["\n", "Jennifer Lasimbang is a Malaysian politician from Sabah. In Sabah government, she has been the State Assistant Minister of Education and Innovation. She served as the Member of Sabah State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Moyog from May 2018 until September 2020. She is a member of the Sabah Heritage Party (WARISAN).[1][2]\n"]}
+{"img_link": null, "name": "Lau_Pak_Khuan", "overview": ["\nLau Pak Khuan (simplified Chinese: \u5218\u4f2f\u7fa4; traditional Chinese: \u5289\u4f2f\u7fa4; pinyin: Li\u00fa B\u00f3q\u00fan; Jyutping: Lau4 Baak3 Kwan4; Pe\u030dh-\u014de-j\u012b: L\u00e2u Pek-k\u00fbn; 1894 \u2013 1971) was a major Chinese political and community leader in Malaysia.\n", "Born in China, Lau was 17 when he came to Malaya on board a Chinese junk in search of a better life. Upon arrival, he saw and experienced the hardship of his countrymen. He made a promise to himself that if he ever made it, he would do all he could for their welfare. Being a Hakka, Lau had to work as a labourer, and his first job was as a tin-mine pushcart boy. He was eventually made a supervisor after years of hard work, and ended up managing 20 of his own tin mines.\n", "A former Kuomintang leader, he was a personal friend of Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek. A founding member of Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), he split ranks with the mainstream and left the party in 1956 over major differences in defending Chinese rights. He was noted for leading the fight for Chinese equal citizenship rights and official language status during the drafting of the Malaysian Constitution after Malaysia gained her independence, although it was not successful. The mainstream of the MCA was not in support of this.\n", "Lau was awarded the title Officer of the Order of the British Empire by King George V for public service. He was awarded the Datuk title in 1963 and Datuk Seri three years later by then Sultan of Perak, Sultan Idris Shah. He was the first Chinese to be conferred the Datuk Seri title.\n", "A street was named after him in Ipoh Garden, Perak.\n", "He served as President of Chinese Chamber of Commerce for 33 years, Perak Chinese Assembly Hall for a similar period, Perak Kwantung Association for 30 years and Perak Chinese Mining Association for 25 years. He was president of the associations for so many years as no one wanted to challenge him. They had such faith in him to lead the community.\n", "He died in 1971, leaving behind nine children - three girls and six boys.\nHe was an extraordinary man who preferred to remain anonymous when he donated to charities. He believed everything he had was from the people, and this was why he worked so hard to give something back.\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": null, "name": "Lau_Yew", "overview": ["\n", "Lau Yew (simplified Chinese: \u5218\u53cb; traditional Chinese: \u5289\u53cb; pinyin: Li\u00fa Y\u01d2u) was a prominent member of the Malayan Communist Party. He was a high-ranking commander in its military arm during World War II, the Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army.\n", "After the war, he led the Malayan Peoples' Anti-British Army until his death in 1948. Lau Yew is believed to have favoured a seizure of power from the British in 1945 before they had fully re-established themselves in Malaya, but was opposed in this by the MCP's leader Lai Teck.\n", "Lau Yew (simplified Chinese: \u5218\u53cb; traditional Chinese: \u5289\u53cb; pinyin: Li\u00fa Y\u01d2u) was killed in an ambush in Kajang by the Ferret Force teams on 16 July 1948.\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2cmyRYH2bx4/UYDEkUJZvEI/AAAAAAAAoXY/QiJt89Ktutw/s400/577775_525785127464825_1693482049_n.jpg", "name": "Azlan_Mohd_Lazim", "overview": ["\n", "Azlan Mohd Lazim is the father of Saiful Bukhari Azlan, primarily known for his involvement in the Anwar Ibrahim sodomy trials. In June 2008, Saiful alleged that Leader of Opposition of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim, to whom Saiful was a former aide, had forcibly sodomised him, eventually attesting to this in an oath that took place in the Federal Territory Mosque in August 2008 with Azlan as his witness. However, in March 2013, Azlan publicly retracted all allegations against Anwar, stating that the then Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's Department had used him and Saiful to implicate Anwar. In May 2013, he again changed his statement and retracted his March 2013 statement saying that what happened to Saiful was 'real' and not a political conspiracy against Anwar.\n", "Azlan Mohd Lazim was seen accompanying his son Saiful Bukhari Azlan to court in Kuala Lumpur on 10 February 2010. Retrieved 11 March 2013.[1]\n", "Azlan urged Suhakam to review the sodomy case involving his son and the opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim. Azlan asked Suhakam to expedite the process, as the case would soon become obsolete without the assistance of an independent body. He stated that he believed his son was a victim and that justice must prevail at any cost.[2]\n", "Azlan made a statement saying that he was annoyed and displeased with Anwar Ibrahim stalling the judicial process.[3]\n", "He also urged the Attorney General to file an appeal against Anwar Ibrahim's acquittal, as it was based on legal technicalities. He further expressed that without said technicalities Anwar Ibrahim would still be in prison.[4]\n", "Despite previous statements, Azlan revoked all of his claims and apologised to Anwar Ibrahim and his family for accusing him of sodomising his son.[5] Azlan pointed to the accusation of Anwar Ibrahim's sodomy charges as the works of individuals within the Prime Minister's Department. This drew criticism from both pro-government and pro-opposition supporters.[6]\n", "Perak Grand Mufti Harussani claims that Azlan may have committed perjury; Azlan has \"committed a grievous sin by coming out with a baldfaced lie\". The mufti pointed out that Azlan had feverishly fought to defend his son, but then changed his statement. Azlan's credibility is now in question, as he may have been a false witness.[7]\n", "Noh Omar, The Malaysian Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry Minister, is prompting the public to question Azlan's credibility, as he is telling stories that would influence the appeal to his son's case. Perak Menteri Besar Zambri rebutted that the apology made by Azlan to Anwar Ibrahim seems orchestrated, a diversion from the Lahad Datu issue in which Anwar is stated to be directly involved.[8]\n", "Saiful was apparently baffled as to why his father made the retraction. Saiful squarely places the blame on Anwar for allegedly manipulating his father into becoming his pawn \"all to satiate the PKR de facto leader's political avarice.\" Saiful has responded with a press statement from his lawyer's office in Hartamas. He was visibly choked with emotion when journalists asked him about his father retracting the statement he had made all these years and giving his full support to Anwar Ibrahim. Saiful mentioned that he had tried to call his father to ask what was going on, but his father was unreachable.[9]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://scontent.fkul8-3.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/379859184_265697536422386_5245832480610284636_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=efb6e6&_nc_ohc=JcQsWkUnnQwAX9UeVM0&_nc_pt=1&_nc_ht=scontent.fkul8-3.fna&cb_e2o_trans=q&oh=00_AfD3KuiIJ-OvLhAJk6o_CCG2BgttP59lUsvRQHHHYjGTNA&oe=65B12220", "name": "Lee_Boon_Heng", "overview": ["Lee Boon Heng is a Malaysian politician. A member of the People's Justice Party (PKR), he has been the member of the Penang State Legislative Assembly representing Kebun Bunga since 2023.\n", "Lee was a media person before joining politics.[1]\n", "Lee has been participating in politics since 2013.[1]\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://apicms.thestar.com.my/uploads/images/2023/08/12/2228037.jpg", "name": "Heng_Lee_Lee", "overview": ["Heng Lee Lee is a Malaysian politician from DAP. She has been a Member of Penang State Legislative Assembly representing Berapit since 2018.\n", "She studied in SMK Jalan Damai and is a Bachelor in Communications from Universiti Sains Malaysia.[1]\n", "Heng was a reporter from 2003 to 2010.[1]\n", "Heng was a Special Officer for the Office of Chief Minister of Penang from 2011 to 2018.[1]\n", "Heng is married to a Taiwanese in 2019.[4]\n"]}
+{"img_link": null, "name": "Philip_Lee_Tau_Sang", "overview": ["\n", "Philip Lee Tau Sang (Chinese: \u674e\u9053\u751f) (d. 1959) was a politician of Hakka Chinese descent in North Borneo (now the east Malaysian state of Sabah). At various different times, he was a member of the Advisory Council of North Borneo (1947\u20131950), the Legislative Council of North Borneo (1950\u20131958) and the Executive Council of North Borneo (1950\u20131953, 1956\u20131957).\n", "He was highly respected by the Chinese community in North Borneo and well-liked by the British colonists. The latter touted him as a potential future Chief Minister of North Borneo after its independence from the United Kingdom. However, four years before North Borneo joined the federation of Malaysia, Lee suddenly died of a heart attack in the United States.\n", "Lee Tau Sang Road (Malay: Jalan Lee Tau Sang) is named in Lee's honour. It is located in Tanjung Aru, a southern suburb of Kota Kinabalu, the state capital of Sabah.\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1366193732484169735/2JWWpka8_400x400.jpg", "name": "Liou_Chen_Kuang", "overview": ["\n", "Liou Chen Kuang is a Malaysian politician and businessman of Chinese descent from Machap Baru in Malacca state. He is a member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP) and was the party's losing candidate for the Malacca State Legislative Assembly seat of Machap in the 2004 general elections.[1] In the 2004 election, the late Datuk Wira Poh Ah Tiam of the Barisan Nasional (BN) defeated him by a majority of 4,562 votes.[2]\n", "Despite the loss, on 30 March 2007, the DAP announced Liou will again contest for the party in the 2007 Machap by-election due to his  \"knowledge of the local terrain\", grassroots support, and his willingness \"to serve Machap constituents\".[3] Liou was eventually defeated, but by a marginally smaller majority.\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Mamadputeh.png/220px-Mamadputeh.png", "name": "Mamad_Puteh", "overview": ["\n", "Dr. Haji Mamad Puteh (born 5 August 1956) is a Malaysian politician and doctor who has served as Member of the Terengganu State Executive Council (EXCO) in the Perikatan Nasional (PN) state administration under Menteri Besar Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar since May 2018 as well as Member of the Terengganu State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Kuala Berang from November 1999 to March 2004 and again since May 2018.[1] He is a member of the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), a component party of the PN coalition. \n", "Mamad was elected into the Terengganu State Legislative Assembly as the Kuala Berang MLA for the first term in the 1999 Terengganu state election by a total of 7,707 votes. In the 2004  Terengganu state election, his failed to defend the seat and be reelected as the Kuala Betang MLA after his defeat to Komarudin Abdul Rahman of Barisan Nasional (BN). In the 2018 Terengganu state election, he regained the seat and was reelected as the Kuala Berang MLA for the second term by the majority of 1,070 votes.[2]\n", "Mamad was born in Kampung Rhu Dua, Marang, Terengganu, Malaysia on 5 August 1956. He has lived in Kampung Sungai Petai, Kuala Berang, Terengganu, Malaysia for more than 30 years.[3]\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Eroeffnung_Gondwanaland_YB_Datuk_Masidi_Manjun.jpg/220px-Eroeffnung_Gondwanaland_YB_Datuk_Masidi_Manjun.jpg", "name": "Masidi_Manjun", "overview": ["\n", "Datuk Seri Panglima Masidi Manjun (born 1 June 1951) is a Malaysian politician, lawyer and public administrator who has served as the State Minister of Finance of Sabah since January 2023 and State Minister of Local Government and Housing of Sabah from September 2020 to January 2023 in the Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) state administration under Chief Minister Hajiji Noor and Member of the Sabah State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Karanaan since March 2004. He was the state COVID-19 spokesman and coordinating minister of the GRS state government of Sabah. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he spoke frequently on the response of Sabah towards the pandemic. On 13 January 2023, Joachim Gunsalam took over the duties from him.[2][3] He is a member of Parti Gagasan Rakyat Sabah (GAGASAN), a component party of the GRS coalition. He has also served as the Deputy President of GAGASAN since February 2023. He also served as the State Deputy Chairman of the Malaysian United Indigenous Party of Sabah from April 2019 to his resignation from the party in December 2022 and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) from August 2020 to January 2021.[4][5]\n", "Masidi obtained a degree of Bachelor of Laws from the University of London in 1977 and became Barrister-at-Law with Honours at Lincoln's Inn, London in 1979.\n", "Masidi entered the State Public Service in 1977 as a legal adviser and prosecutor at the Forestry Department. He was admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Sabah and Sarawak in 1979, the same year he was appointed as Tuaran District Officer. He was transferred to Sandakan in the similar position in 1982 before being promoted as Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports in 1984. In 1987, he was made a Senior State Counsel in the State Attorney-General's Chambers. He left the State Public Service in 1989 to join private sector.\n", "Masidi served as Chairman of Institute of Development Studies of Sabah from 1994 to 2004 and member of board of directors of Sabah Development Bank during that time.[4] He held directorship in various companies including Chase Perdana Berhad, Sitt Tatt Berhad and Bank Rakyat. He is Chairman of Malaysian Bioeconomy Development Corporation since 24 July 2020.[6]\n", "Masidi joined politics in 2004 as he was nominated by United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) as candidate for Karanaan state constituency. He subsequently won the election and holds the seat for four consecutive terms. He is currently serving the fifth term in Karanaan following his victory in the 16th state election under the banner of Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU).\n", "He then rose to prominence as Minister of State for Youth and Sports and served from 2004 until 2008. He then became Minister of State for Tourism, Culture and Environment from 2008 to 2018 and Minister of State charged with education during that time. He also served as Deputy Chief Minister post 14th general election for two days. He left UMNO in 2018 to join BERSATU and became the latter's state liaison deputy chairman subsequently.\n", "Masidi was bestowed with the following honours:\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://www.theborneopost.com/newsimages/2018/05/Masiung-Banah.jpg", "name": "Masiung_Banah", "overview": ["\n", "Masiung Banah is a Malaysian politician who has been the State Minister of Youth and Sports and also a Sabah People's Ideas Party (GAGASAN) member, one of the Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) component parties. He has served as the Member of Sabah State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Kuamut since March 2008. In 2023, he was appointed as Vice President III of Sabah People's Ideas Party along with Arifin Bin Mohd Arif (Vice President I) and Rubin Balang (Vice President II).\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://parlimen.gov.my/images/webuser/ahli/2022/P178.jpg", "name": "Matbali_Musah", "overview": ["\n", "Matbali bin Haji Musah is a Malaysian politician who serves as the Member of Parliament for Sipitang since 2022 and was the Member of Sabah State Legislative Assembly for Lumadan from 2018 to 2020. A Bisayan, he is the direct member of the Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) since 2022.\n", "He was the Deputy Chief of UMNO Sipitang division until 2019 when he quitted UMNO to join BERSATU.[1]\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": null, "name": "N.K._Menon", "overview": ["N.K Menon (1895-1979) is Malaysian politician and medical doctor of Indian descent. He had serve as assemblyman for Jelutong in year 1954. He is well known for criticizing the exploitation of Indian labour by British capitalist.[1][2][3] He also well known as the founder of Radical Party.\n", "As Settlement Councillor in Penang and a member of the Settlement Executive Committee, he served the Indian community and the people of Penang with distinction. In his capacity as the Chairman of the Settlement Committee for Education, he played a notable role in serving both the English and Tamil schools in Penang State. Menon also had the distinction of becoming the President of the British Medical Association of Malaya between 1955-6. At different times he served as a President of the North Malaya Kerala Samajam and the Malaysian-German Society as well.[4]\n", "Dr N.K. Menon was born to P.K. Nambyar on 1895 in Malabar, India. P.K. Nambyar is the Straith Settlement Couceler. Menon was educated in St. Xavier\u2019s Institution in Penang and had his medical training at the University of Edinburgh, University of T\u00fcbingen in Germany and Madras University Medical College. He began his private practice in Penang in 1926. In the 1940s, Dr Menon became actively involved in the Indian National Army (INA), an army inspired by radical Indian nationalists opposed to the moderate approach of the Indian National Congress. They teamed up with the advancing Japanese armies to expel the British from India-each for their own reasons.\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Kch-130523-rm-AsfiaNative_%281%29.jpg/220px-Kch-130523-rm-AsfiaNative_%281%29.jpg", "name": "Mohamad_Asfia_Awang_Nassar", "overview": ["\n", "Mohamad Asfia bin Awang Nassar (born 8 October 1947) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Speaker of Sarawak State Legislative Assembly since 15 January 2000. He served as the Acting Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Sarawak from 16 August 2023 to 17 September 2023 and Deputy Speaker of Sarawak State Legislative Assembly from 1995 to 2000. He was also the Member of the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Serdeng between 1991 and 2011 and MLA for Kuala Rajang between 1979 and 1983.\n", "\nTan Sri Mohamad Asfia Awang Nassar was appointed as Acting Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Sarawak on 16 August 2023. It followed the absence of Tun Abdul Taib Mahmud who was in the process of recovering his health abroad.[1] Taib was previously in Turkiye for a holiday before facing health problems and undergoing a surgical procedure. He had already taken the oath in the Astana Negeri Petra Jaya. Present to witness the ceremony was the Premier of Sarawak, Tan Abang Johari Openg. According to a report from Astro Awani, this is not the first time he has performed the task, and the last time was on 1 December 2019 to 11 January 2020.\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://scontent.fkul8-5.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/358139451_177585831966198_3267468397170278706_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=efb6e6&_nc_ohc=J1WUdcCN_tcAX82ivao&_nc_pt=1&_nc_ht=scontent.fkul8-5.fna&cb_e2o_trans=q&oh=00_AfDdbX_BsihGP9Z7Wt3M-3US9Eol8ypg_wA9A5FvczpCVA&oe=65B0F39B", "name": "Mohamad_Fazli_Mohamad_Salleh", "overview": ["\n", "Mohamad Fazli bin Mohamad Salleh (born 4 November 1986) is a Malaysian politician and engineer who has served as Member of the Johor State Executive Council (EXCO) in the Barisan Nasional (BN) state administration under Menteri Besar Onn Hafiz Ghazi as well as Member of the Johor State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Bukit Pasir since March 2022. He is a member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a component party of the BN coalition.\n", "Mohamad Fazli was born in Kampung Jalan Raja, Bukit Pasir, Johor, Malaysia on 4 November 1986.\n", "On 26 March 2022, Mohamad Fazli was appointed as a Member of the Johor State EXCO in charge of Works, Transport and Infrastructure by Menteri Besar Onn Hafiz.[1]\n", "In the 2022 Johor state election, Mohamad Fazli made his electoral debut after being nominated by BN to contest for the Bukit Pasir state seat. He won the seat and was elected into the Johor State Legislative Assembly as the Bukit Pasir MLA after narrowly defeating Iqbal Razak of Perikatan Nasional (PN), Elia Nadira of Pakatan Harapan (PH), defending MLA and independent candidate \nNajib Lep, another independent candidate Johar Siraj and Mohd Akhiri Mahmood of the Homeland Fighters Party (PEJUANG) by a majority of only 198 votes.[2]\n", "Mohamad Fazli used to work with Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB).[3]\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://idirektori.penang.gov.my/wakilrakyat/N.39%20(PUTIH).png", "name": "Mohamad_Shukor_Zakariah", "overview": ["Mohamad Shukor bin Zakariah is a Malaysian politician from PAS. He has been the Member of Penang State Legislative Assembly for Pulau Betong since 2023.\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://i.newscdn.net/publisher-c1a3f893382d2b2f8a9aa22a654d9c97/2023/03/8d62cb943a871f41261eaf9982c77f65.jpg", "name": "Mohamed_Salleh_Bajuri", "overview": ["\n", "Mohamed Salleh bin Bajuri is a Malaysian politician. He is a member of the Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU), a component party of the Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition. He has served as Treasurer-General of BERSATU since 2016.[1][2]\n", "Mohamed Salleh Bajuri was remanded by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission for allegations concerning party accounts.[3] He was released on bail on 4 March 2023.[4]\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://scontent.fkul8-5.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/158947997_126203202839918_133352229322705645_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=7a1959&_nc_ohc=Ppoy1P-eNoAAX8I-YDR&_nc_pt=1&_nc_ht=scontent.fkul8-5.fna&cb_e2o_trans=q&oh=00_AfCtK-drLDS-PL-5bC-4D9i8bBN3X5O-KlWhepVkQ0ca1w&oe=65D2AA7F", "name": "Mohd_Tuah_Ismail", "overview": ["Mohd Tuah Ismail is a Malaysian politician from PKR. He was the Member of Penang State Legislative Assembly for Pulau Betong from 2018 to 2023. He is the Deputy Chief of PKR Balik Pulau Division. He was also a member of MAINPP from 2014 to 2021.[1]\n", "He was born in Balik Pulau to Ismail Othman and Siti Halijah Mohd Zain on 9 August 1966.[2] Mohd Tuah studied in SK Titi Teras and SMK Seri Balik Pulau before becoming a Bachelor in Islamic Studies from Akademi Islah Malaysia.[2] He is married to Mazilah Ismail and the couple have a son and a daughter.[2]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://benmorais.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/pic06-john-manuel-morais-e1576377603627.jpg", "name": "John_Victor_Morais", "overview": ["John Victor Morais S.B.St.J[1][non-primary source needed] also known as J. Victor Morais (1910\u20131991)[2] was a Malaysian writer, journalist and managing director of several newspapers. He was also known as the editor and publisher of the biannual directory Who's Who in Malaysia and Singapore (ISSN\u00a00303-6928, ISSN\u00a00083-9620, OCLC\u00a050350748 and OCLC\u00a0614945506), which was first published as The Leaders of Malaya and who's who in 1956.[3] It was a successor of Who's Who in Malaya, which stopped to publish for about 30 years until the birth of Morais's Who's Who.[3]\n", "Morais was the publisher of The Perak Times in Ipoh, Perak and other location, during the Japanese occupation of Malaya.[2] After the war, he worked for several newspaper, such as Malaya Tribune and [unknown location] Daily News.[4]\n", "In 1948, Morais was also appointed as an unofficial member of the Perak State Executive Council.[5][non-primary source needed]\n", "\n", "This Malaysian biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it."]}
+{"img_link": null, "name": "Muhamad_Kasim", "overview": ["Muhamad bin Kasim is a Malaysian politician from BERSATU. He has been the Member of Penang State Legislative Assembly for Telok Bahang since 2023. He is also a retired colonel.[1]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://assets.bharian.com.my/images/articles/HQ201903062185_1623303531.jpg", "name": "Muhammad_Faiz_Fadzil", "overview": ["Muhammad Faiz bin Dato' Haji Fadzil is a Malaysian politician. He was a member of Penang State Legislative Assembly for Permatang Pasir from 2018 to 2023.\n", "He is also the owner of a law firm, Faiz Fadzil & Co in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan.[1]\n", "He is the Chairman of Lembaga Kemajuan Ikan Malaysia replacing Irmohizam Ibrahim in 2018 and was replaced by Syed Abu Hussin Hafiz in 2020.[2] He was reappointed as Chairman since 15 May 2023 for a period of 3 years.[3]\n", "He is a member of AMANAH National Committee for 2019-2022. During the party's National Leadership Committee meeting on 7 January 2024, he was appointed as the new Secretary General, replacing Dr Hatta Ramli who was promoted to become a Vice President. \n", "He is seen as the future leader to replace Mohamad Sabu and Mahfuz Omar in AMANAH to spread moderate Islam, following his father, Fadzil Noor's will.\n", "He is the son of former President of PAS, Fadzil Noor.[1]\n", "On 10 June 2021, he was charged for sexually assaulting a saleswoman.[5] He was discharged not amounting to acquittal (DNAA) of the case on 7 September 2023.[6]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://www.utusanborneo.com.my/sites/default/files/images/article/20200228/kks-ub280220-ans-sembangsabtu-muis2.jpg", "name": "Muis_Picho", "overview": ["\n", "Haji Abdul Muis Picho (born 20 July 1957) is a Malaysian politician who served as the Member of the Sabah State Legislative Assembly for Sebatik from 2008 to 2020.\n", "Born in Kampung Bombalai, Tawau in 1957, Muis was educated at SRK Bombalai, SMK Abaka and SMK Holy Trinity.[1] He then studied automotive engineering at Federal Institute of Technology.[1] Following the graduation, he served as the CEO of Manuk Mas Livestock Farm from 1984 to 1993.[1]\n", "Being a member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) since 1990s, he served various positions within the party.[1] He was firstly elected the MLA for Sebatik in 2008 election[1] and was re-elected in 2013 and in 2018. Shortly after his third re-election in 2018, he quit the UMNO and joined the Sabah Heritage Party (WARISAN) in order to let Shafie Apdal to be the new Chief Minister.[2][3]\n", "On 29 July 2020, it was reported that Muis was one of several WARISAN-PH-UPKO MLAs who backed Musa Aman as the new Chief Minister.[4][5] Though Musa announced that he had already gained enough supports (33 out of 65) to form a new government, Shafie asked the Yang di-Pertua Negeri to rather dissolve the State Legislative Assembly and call a fresh election.[6] Muis then joined the Malaysian United Indigenous Party (PPBM)[7] and sought for a re-election, but lost to the WARISAN candidate Hassan A. Gani Pg. Amir.[8]\n", "He married Hajjah Hanawiah binti Paressa and has 12 children.[1]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://scontent.fkul8-5.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/405378660_845972960871367_955980875838698446_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=efb6e6&_nc_ohc=sriN4cVilsMAX-7bsYp&_nc_pt=1&_nc_ht=scontent.fkul8-5.fna&cb_e2o_trans=q&oh=00_AfAeEJg_8fSz5l0g5MTDlLuzg6NxGuqCsIZZP2BbB9zC0g&oe=65B0D00D", "name": "Joseph_Ng_Soon_Siang", "overview": ["Joseph Ng Soon Seong is a Malaysian politician. A member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), he has been the member of the Penang State Legislative Assembly representing Air Itam since 2018. \n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1153706546339012608/sDWRikW4_400x400.jpg", "name": "Nor_Zamri_Latiff", "overview": ["Nor Zamri bin Latiff is a Malaysian politician from PAS. He has been the Member of Penang State Legislative Assembly for Sungai Bakap since 2023.\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://apicms.thestar.com.my/uploads/images/2023/08/12/2228016.jpg", "name": "Ong_Ah_Teong", "overview": ["Ong Ah Teong is a Malaysian politician. A member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), he has been the member of the Penang State Legislative Assembly representing Batu Lancang since 2018.\n", "Ong was a member of Penang Island City Council before being nominated to contest in the 2018 Penang state election.[1] He is currently the Chairman of DAP Solok Batu Lancang branch and Communication Secretary for DAP Jelutong division.[2]\n", "Ong tested positive for COVID-19 the second time during the 2023 Penang state election campaign.[5]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/watermark/picas_data/tn_pcd/19980001377-8154-3221-1067/img0109.jpg", "name": "K._Pathmanaban", "overview": ["\nDato' Pathmanaban a/l Kunjamboo or K. Pathmanaban (Tamil: \u0b95\u0bc7. \u0baa\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0bae\u0ba9\u0bbe\u0baa\u0ba9\u0bcd, romanized:\u00a0\u0112. Putt\u0101na\u1e49pa\u1e49) is a former Malaysian deputy minister, vice-president of Malaysian Indian Congress and founder of Melaka Manipal Medical College.\n", "Born in Bukit Bertam Estate, Linggi, Negeri Sembilan, he obtained his Master of Arts in Public Administration in Economic Development from Harvard University.\n", "He was among the first batch of Bachelor of Arts graduates majoring in Economics from the University of Malaya in Singapore in 1959. Before venturing into politics, he served as Assistant Secretary of the Labour and Manpower Ministry from 1960 and Director of Social Economics in the Economic Planning Unit (EPU) in the Prime Minister's Department from 1968 until his resignation to contest the Teluk Kemang parliamentary seat in 1974.\n", "Pathmanaban was initially encouraged to join the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) and enter politics by Tun Abdul Razak, who saw his potential and his education from a prestigious university as invaluable. He was inducted by the then president of MIC, Tan Sri V. Manickavasagam, as part of his process of infusing new blood into the party, especially those who are young, well-educated and could contribute to the party.\n", "He served as Teluk Kemang Member of Parliament for four terms. Prior to that, he joined the Malaysian Indian Congress in 1974 and the following year was a member of the MIC Central Working Committee. Pathmanaban served as MIC vice-president for three terms from 1979 until his retirement from active politics in 1991.\n", "Pathmanaban actively fought for the rights of Malaysian Indians, especially in the field of education. He realised the importance education could bring about in uplifting the Indian community.\n", "He headed the MIC's Education Bureau and used to collect information on all students rejected by government universities. Pathmanaban used to lead MIC delegations to visit every vice-chancellor to give more places to Malaysian Indian students who had just missed the cut-off point. In fact, the Malaysian Chinese Association used to be jealous of the MIC in having this special privilege.[1]\n", "The former MIC vice-president was Deputy Labour and Manpower Minister for five years from 1976. Pathmanaban was Deputy Health Minister for seven years from 1981. He last served in the government as Deputy Human Resources Minister from June 1989 to October 1990.\n", "His retirement from politics was apparently due to differences with MIC president, Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu.\n", "Following his retirement, Pathmanaban was active in social service. He felt there was nothing greater than helping a fellow man. He actively sought ways to help the poor and disadvantaged Indian community in Malaysia.\n", "He also served as a member of the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) following the setting up of the commission until his demise.\n", "Pathmanaban was the founding chairman of Melaka Manipal Medical College. He was instrumental in getting both the Prime Ministers and governments of Malaysia and India to give their nod for his pet project which offers a twinning medical programme between both countries. His main purpose of setting up the medical college was to provide high quality medical education opportunities to Malaysians at an affordable price, particularly for Malaysians of Indian ethnicity.\n", "Datuk K. Pathmanaban died due to kidney and liver failure at the Pantai Medical Centre in Kuala Lumpur at around 1am on 9 June 2001. He was just one day short of his 64th birthday.\n", "His remains were cremated at the Hindu crematorium in Cheras and the ashes were taken to Port Dickson to be scattered in the sea according to Hindu rites.\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Datuk_Peter_Anthony_%28PGDK%29.jpg/220px-Datuk_Peter_Anthony_%28PGDK%29.jpg", "name": "Peter_Anthony", "overview": ["\n", "Datuk Peter Anthony (born 24 February 1971) is a Malaysian politician, singer and businessman who has served as the Member of Sabah State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Melalap since May 2018. He served as State Minister of Infrastructure Development of Sabah in the Heritage Party (WARISAN) state administration under former Chief Minister Shafie Apdal from May 2018 to the collapse of the WARISAN administration in September 2020. He is also a founder of Asli Jati Engineering Sdn Bhd, a construction company involved in Universiti Malaysia Sabah tender scandal in 2014. He is a founder and member of the Social Democratic Harmony Party (KDM), a party that is aligned with the ruling Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) coalition. He has also served as 1st and founding President of KDM since party foundation in January 2022. He was independent after leaving WARISAN on 28 December 2021 along with Limbahau MLA Juil Nuatim and before founding KDM on 28 January 2022. He was also the member and Vice President of WARISAN.[1] He founded KDM, also a native based party in Tenom, Sabah on 28 January 2022 along with Juil.\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/40/Rashid_Maidin.jpg", "name": "Rashid_Maidin", "overview": ["\nRashid Maidin (10 October 1917 \u2013 1 September 2006), sometimes given as Rashid Mahideen, was a senior leader of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM).\n", "He was born in Kampung Gunung Mesah, Gopeng, Perak; coincidentally on the same month and year as the October Revolution in the Russian Empire. He is the eldest brother of 7 brothers and 1 sister. He received his early education at the Gunung Panjang Malay School and the Kampung Gunung Mesah Madrasah, which were both in Gopeng. He graduated at standard 5 in a Malay school. However, due to poverty Rashid dropped out of school in 1929.\n", "After leaving school, Rashid travelled and sought employment, ending up in Cameron Highlands, Pahang. While working odd jobs there, he befriended a Christian missionary who taught him to speak basic English. He furthered his proficiency in the language via correspondence courses. Later, Rashid returned to Gopeng and worked at a French-owned power station. While employed at the power station, he studied basic electrics and eventually obtained a first-class electrical chargeman certificate.\n", "He started a family with  Hamidah binti Abdul Rashid, a village girl in 1938. They have 4 children, 3 sons and a daughter. The second marriage was in 1959, a comrade and a party cadet named Selamah binti Abdullah. They were gifted another daughter.[citation needed]\n", "Rashid was also active in the trade unions, which led him to join the CPM as the party's first Malay member. In his memoir, Memoir Rashid Maidin: Daripada perjuangan bersenjata kepada perdamaian (The Memoirs of Rashid Maidin: From Armed Struggle to Peace), Rashid justified his decision to join the CPM due to the party's strong anti-imperialist stance. CPM was among the first anti-colonial movements in Malaya. Since young Rashid was inspired by the story of Maharajalela's war against the British in Perak. In 1939. he started to get involved in the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) and in 1941, he officially became a member of MCP. He was the first Malay joining MCP.\n", "In 1941, the Imperial Japanese Army invaded and occupied Malaya. The MCP, of which Rashid by now was the party's top Malay leader, organised armed resistance via the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA). At the end of the Anti-Japanese war, he met Abdullah CD.\n", "After the return of British rule, the CPM continued its armed insurrection, this time against the British colonial government, via its new militant wing, the Malayan National Libheration Army (MNLA). Rashid was entrusted by CPM leader Chin Peng to lead the MNLA's Malay-dominated 10th Regiment. In 1947, he was one of the representatives from CPM to attend a council communist party meeting in London. This meeting was participated by communist parties in the colonial country to discuss about the strategy to fight against colonialism for the right of independence. CPM's armed insurrection led the British to declare a state of emergency, which lasted between 1948 and 1960. in July 1948, he was caught by the British in Sungai Manik, Perak. He was put in jail for 3 and a half years. In the early 1952, he managed to free himself. After that in late 1952, Rashid met Abdullah CD in Pahang. Then in 1953, together with 10th Regiment, he retreated to the borders of Malaysia-Thailand. He was wounded on his leg during the battle against the British.\n", "In 1955, the CPM attempted to negotiate peace with the colonial government. Rashid was a member of the CPM delegation at the talks, which were held at the town of Baling, Kedah. After the collapse of the Baling Talks, the CPM continued its insurrection. In between 1961 and 1972, he was assigned to lead the Special Unit of National Libriation Army in the borders of Kedah-Thailand. He returned and lead Rejimen the tenth till peace in 1972. However, due to government anti-insurrection measures, CPM's guerilla struggle gradually waned and eventually ended after a peace treaty was signed with the Malaysian government in Haadyai, Thailand in 1989. Rashid was again a CPM delegate to the peace treaty.\n", "In January 2006, 500 former members of the Malayan Communist party were granted Thai citizenship.[1] In the past, Rashid had failed to acquire Malaysian citizenship, like many other ex-communists living in Southern Thailand.[2]\n", "However, a stipulation in the treaty signed disallowed former senior CPM leaders from returning to Malaysia; hence, Rashid settled to a quiet, post-guerilla life in Southern Thailand. He died on 1 September 2006 in Si Sakhon, Narathiwat, and was buried after Friday prayers on the same day.\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://www.utusan.com.my/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/2e3b02e8-31a8-4c8b-aa39-5823394b1b73.jpg", "name": "Rashidi_Zinol", "overview": ["Rashidi bin Zinol is a Malaysian politician from UMNO. He has been the Member of Penang State Legislative Assembly for Sungai Acheh since August 2023 and the Member of Penang State Executive Council for Rural Development, Trade and Entrepreneurial Development.\n", "Rashidi was appointed as a member of Penang State Executive Council, holding the portfolio of Rural Development, Trade and Entrepreneurial Development after the 2023 Penang state election.[1][2]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://scontent.fkul8-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/243102439_251567113643275_7736373549468406670_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=efb6e6&_nc_ohc=jpQIKGAsgFwAX-CbttS&_nc_pt=1&_nc_ht=scontent.fkul8-2.fna&cb_e2o_trans=q&oh=00_AfBIiQywY7IxEGKaG1kSoGd_GnK8Z73eupSNILPKbGFILQ&oe=65B10369", "name": "Rasinin_Kautis", "overview": ["\n", "Rasinin bin Kautis is a Malaysian politician who has been the State Assistant Minister. He served as the Member of Sabah State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Liawan from May 2018 until September 2020. He is a member of the Sabah Heritage Party (WARISAN).[1][2]\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://www.sabahgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ruslan-muharram.jpg", "name": "Ruslan_Muharam", "overview": ["\n", "Ruslan bin Muharam (born 4 November 1963) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the State Assistant Minister to the Chief Minister of Sabah in the Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) state administration under Chief Minister Hajiji Noor since January 2023 as well as Member of the Sabah State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Lumadan since September 2020. He is a member of the United Sabah Party (PBS), a component party of the GRS and formerly Barisan Nasional (BN) coalitions. He has also served as the Vice President of PBS since 2003 and Division Chief of PBS of Sipitang since 1999.[1][2]\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://assets.nst.com.my/images/articles/06bt02s6_1515196805.jpg", "name": "Sairin_Karno", "overview": ["\n", "Sairin bin Karno (born 3 June 1954) is a Malaysian politician from Sabah and member of Gagasan Rakyat Sabah. He was the Member of Sabah State Legislative Assembly for Liawan, Keningau from 2004 to 2018 and a former member of the Dewan Negara representing Sabah from 1993 to 1999. \n", "He was also a former Sabah state Assistant Minister from 2008 to 2018 and former member of the Malaysian United Indigenous Party of Sabah as well as the United Malays National Organisation of Sabah and United Sabah National Organisation parties.\n", "He firstly worked as a teacher from 1976 to 1982. Besides that, he was also the Chairman of Sabah MNI Agency from 1984 to 1996, member of Board of Directors of FELCRA from 1992 to 1994, director of the People's Development Leaders Unit of Sabah from 1994 to 1996, deputy Executive Chairman of the Sabah National Integration Unit in 1996, member of the board of directors of Tabung Haji Malaysia and finally became the President of the Sabah Native Affairs Council from 1998 to 2004. \n", "As of 2020, he is now the Chairman of the Sabah Islamic United Organization ever since he retired from politics, as a consequence of his recent defeat in the 2018 general elections.[1][2]\n", "He started his political career in early 1980s and was a member of USNO. He joined UMNO after USNO was abolished. He was the Sabah Assistant Minister of Rural Development from 2008 to 2013, and Sabah Assistant Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry from 2013 to 2018.[3][4] He quitted UMNO and joined BERSATU in 2019.[5]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/TYT_Sarawak_Abang_Muhammad_Salahuddin.jpg/300px-TYT_Sarawak_Abang_Muhammad_Salahuddin.jpg", "name": "Abang_Muhammad_Salahuddin", "overview": ["\n", "Tun Pehin Sri Datuk Patinggi Abang Haji Muhammad Salahuddin bin Abang Barieng (n\u00e9 Louis anak Barieng; Jawi: \u0627\u0628\u06a0 \u0645\u062d\u0645\u062f \u0635\u0644\u0627\u062d \u0627\u0644\u062f\u064a\u0646 \u0628\u0646 \u0627\u0628\u06a0 \u0628\u0627\u0631\u064a\u0626\u06a0; 27 August 1921 \u2013 28 January 2022) was a Malaysian politician who served as the third Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Sarawak from 1977 to 1981, and as the sixth Yang di-Pertua Negeri from 2001 to 2014. He was the first Yang di-Pertua Negeri to hold the post twice, as well as the oldest elected to the office.[1][2]\n", "Born in 1921 at Kampung Nangka, Sibu, Raj of Sarawak (present-day Sarawak, Malaysia) Abang Muhammad Salahuddin, or Abang Louis, was the only son of Abang Barieng Abang Anyut, a well-known figure in the Third Division (present-day Sibu Division), who had a bloodline with famous state leader Temenggung Jugah Barieng. Abang Louis later changed his name to his Islam one after his conversion.\n", "After the Japanese occupation, he worked as Municipal Inspector until 1947 under the new British colonial administration. He continued in the public service under the National Registration Department and the Public Works Department.\n", "Salahuddin was active in state politics, helping to form Barisan Pemuda Sarawak (BPS) and Barisan Rakyat Jati Sarawak (BARJASA). He acted as representative of the Melanau community to the Cobbold Commission during the years preceding the formation of Malaysia.\n", "In 1963, he contested and won a seat in the state elections. He resigned in 1968 and returned to public service and eventually became Chairman of the State Public Service Commission.\n", "In 1977, he was installed as the third Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Sarawak and served for his first term. In 2000, he became the acting Yang di-Pertua Negeri while his successor Ahmad Zaidi Adruce was ill.[3] Ahmad Zaidi died in December 2000, and Abang Muhammad Salahuddin was reappointed permanently to the governorship in February 2001, and his term officially ended on 28 February 2014.[4]\n", "Salahuddin died at the Normah Sarawak Medical Centre in Petra Jaya, on 28 January 2022, at the age of 100.[5][6] He was buried at the Samariang Muslim Cemetery in Kuching.[7]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://www.simedarby.com/sites/default/files/board-of-directors/bod_tan_sri_samsudin_3.png", "name": "Samsudin_Osman", "overview": ["\n", "Samsudin bin Osman (born 3 March 1947)[1] is a Malaysian former public servant who served the Malaysian Government from 1969 to 2006. His last office in the public service was Chief Secretary to the Government from 1 February 2001 to 2 September 2006. He is currently the President of the International Islamic University Malaysia, and Former Chairman of the Employees Provident Fund.\n", "Prior to being Chief Secretary, Samsudin was the secretary-general for the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs from 1994 and the Ministry of Home Affairs from 1996.\n", "He obtained his Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from the University of Malaya and Master of Public Administration from Pennsylvania State University. He is also a former student of the renowned English College Johore Bahru and Royal Military College, Sungai Besi.\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://www.dailyexpress.com.my/uploads/news2/2023/11/Sarifuddin_Hata.jpg", "name": "Sarifuddin_Hata", "overview": ["\n", "Sarifuddin bin Hata is a Malaysian politician who has served as Member of the Sabah State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Merotai since May 2018. He served as the State Assistant Minister of Finance of Sabah in the Heritage Party (WARISAN) state administration under former Chief Minister and former Minister Shafie Apdal from May 2018 to the collapse of the WARSIAN state administration in September 2020. He is a member of WARISAN.[1]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/OKK_Sedomon_Gunsanad_Kina.jpg/220px-OKK_Sedomon_Gunsanad_Kina.jpg", "name": "Sedomon_Gunsanad_Kina", "overview": ["\n", "Sedomon Gunsanad Kina MBE (1894-1966) was a native chief of Keningau, in North Borneo, who later became a politician in unified Malaysia.\nHe was the son of Gunsanad Kina and the older brother of G.S Sundang.\n", "Succeeded his father as clan leader and district chief of the interior of Sabah from 1936 until his death in 1966. As a district chief, he acted as a judge in social and legal disputes. He established the Native Administration Centre in Bingkor under the Chartered Company before World War II. His home, the Rumah Besar, was one of the grandest abodes in Keningau. It was used as the headquarters of the Japanese military during the Japanese occupation of Sabah in WW II \n", "In 1962, Sedomon established the United National Pasok Momogon Organisation which he led with his brother Sundang. (Pasok Momogon means 'people of the country) The party controlled the vast majority of the interior area of Sabah. He was also a fine businessman who dealt in agricultural products like rubber, padi, cinnamon, horses, pigs, cows, and tobacco. Was conferred the title of Johan Mangku Negara, and made member of the Order of the British Empire.\n", "Sedomon was given the title of Orang Kaya-kaya (O.K.K) after the passing away of his father, who was the previous Paramount Chief of the Interior and O.K.K for North Borneo. Sedomon served as O.K.K. from 1936 until his death in 1966.\n", "Sedomon gained administrative experience in Bingkor while working under D.J. Jardine, the governor of the British North Borneo Chartered Company (BNBCC).[1]\n", "In 1936, OKK Sedomon heads the alliance of villages in Bingkor and has the authority to administer the Centre of Indigenous Administration (Pusat Pentadbiran Pribumi) in Bingkor.[1] As a district native chief, Sedomon amicably settled disputes among villagers in Keningau according to native customary law.\n", "Inscriptions on the Batu Sumpah Keningau partly detail Sedomon's ideas.[2]\n", "In his capacity as Paramount Chief of the Interior, Sedomon asked the British to declare a three-days festival, later known as the Kaamatan. Although an ethnic Dusun (but he was also of mixed Murut blood), Sedomon's intention was for Kaamatan to be a day for all Sabah natives.[3] However, the British acceded only when Donald Stephens also made the request.[citation needed]\n", "Together with his younger brother, Sedomon was instrumental in forming and sustaining the North Borneo movement against the formation of Malaysia. The brothers founded the United Pasok Momogun Party (UPMP), a splinter party from United National Kadazan Organisation (UNKO) to protest the party's choice of supporting the formation of Malaysia. One of the points of contention was the grouping of two distinct tribes of Dusun and Murut into a single label of \u2018Kadazan\u2019. The party was registered in January 1962, but despite being a multi-ethnic party with diverse representatives, UPMP's influence seemed limited to a few locations such as in Keningau, Tenom, Membakut and Kinabatangan.[1]\n", "Despite taking an anti-formation stand, there was very little opposition directed to the British colonial administrators or the Malayan government. While some interpret UPMP formation only as a direct challenge to UNKO vying for influence, UPMP maintained the anti-Malaysia position throughout the Cobbold Commission enquiry from January to April 1962,[1] and the submission of the 20-point agreement to the Lansdowne Committee in August 1962 incorporated Sedomon's ideas on freedom of religion, immigration, and on issues relating to land, forest, and local government.[4] Sedomon also presented his ideas to Tun Abdul Razak during a meeting at the Rumah Besar mansion. Tun Razak was quick to consider the practicalities of Sedomon's requests when he acknowledged that  \u201cIf that is the case, people from the Peninsula would require a passport to enter Sabah\u201d.[5]\n", "UPMP's resistance had also began to weaken with internal differences and waning influence, especially when only 200 party members attended the party convention in September 1962 in Jesselton. The submission of a petition on 9 September 1962 to the United Nations to oppose the formation of Malaysia was done by G.S. Sundang together with Ong Kee Hui for Sarawak and A.M. Azahari for Brunei, although this had no impact and was later withdrawn by Sundang by 27 October 1962.[1]\n", "In November 1962, the North Borneo delegation was taken on a two-week trip throughout Malaya, at the beginning of which Sedomon said it was important for them to understand the concept of Malaysia, as many party members did not understand and \"we are still undecided on Malaysia\".[6] He was able to visit the rural development schemes in the peninsula, which greatly impressed him.[7]\n", "In 2016, Sedomon was posthumously conferred Sabah's highest award, Seri Panglima Darjah Kinabalu (SPDK), which carries the title \u201cDatuk Seri Panglima\u201d.\n", "Sedomon was recognised for his achievements and contributions in British North Borneo and awarded an MBE by Queen Elizabeth II on 9 June 1961.\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1293769137567576064/bTxx78KE_400x400.jpg", "name": "See_Chee_How", "overview": ["\n", "See Chee How (Chinese: \u65bd\u5fd7\u8c6a; pinyin: Sh\u012b zh\u00ech\u00e1o), is a Malaysian politician and lawyer who has served as Member of the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Batu Lintang since April 2011. He is presently an independent.[1] He was a member of the opposition Parti Sarawak Bersatu (PSB) and People's Justice Party (PKR), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) opposition coalition.[2] He also served as State Vice Chairman of PKR of Sarawak before his sacking from the party.\n", "Between August 2018 and February 2020, See served as special officer representing Minister of Works of Malaysia, Baru Bian, in Sarawak on a pro bono basis.[3]\n", "See was sacked from PKR in mid-April 2020 having been alleged to have supported the camp belonging to former party deputy president, Mohamed Azmin Ali, in the events leading up to the 2020 Malaysian constitutional crisis.[4]\n", "On 29 May 2020, president of United Sarawak Party (PSB), Wong Soon Koh, announced that See has been accepted as a member of PSB.[5][6] See's addition to PSB comes as over 20 other former PKR members, either sacked or having resigned from the party, also received their acceptance into PSB.[7][8]\n", "On 14 August 2022, Speaker of the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly Mohamad Asfia Awang Nassar announced that See had informed him about leaving PSB two days prior on 12 August 2022 without adding reasons. This left PSB only three MLAs and the Opposition five in addition with another two from PH. His seating in the state assembly was also rearranged and moved away from the opposition seats.\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://scontent.fkul8-4.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/313414471_5935971919756316_3535674675325545197_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=dd5e9f&_nc_ohc=vJ9FLutrgUcAX_MNpPa&_nc_pt=1&_nc_ht=scontent.fkul8-4.fna&cb_e2o_trans=q&oh=00_AfAvHsIke3CCBHHAEopIC6ueK3okAmqFXQ96LVhLXGQC6g&oe=65AF53A1", "name": "Sh_Mohmed_Puzi_Sh_Ali", "overview": ["Sheikh Mohmed Puzi bin Sheikh Ali (born 27 April) is a Malaysian politician. He is currently the Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the seat of Pekan of Pahang since November 2022. He is a member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) a component party of the ruling BN coalition.[1]\n", "He is the first MP from Pekan since 1982 not from the Razak family, as Najib Razak (1976-1982 and 1986\u20132022) and his father Abdul Razak Hussein (1959-1976) has hold the seat for six decades.[2]\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Shah_Zanuriman.jpg/220px-Shah_Zanuriman.jpg", "name": "Shah_Zanuriman_Nuar_Paras_Khan", "overview": ["Shah Zanuriman bin Nuar Paras Khan (Jawi: \u0634\u0647 \u0632\u0627\u0646\u0648\u0631\u064a\u0645\u0646 \u0646\u0648\u0627\u0631 \u06a4\u0627\u0631\u0633 \u062e\u0646, Malay pronunciation: [shah zanuriman]; born 19 December 1984) is a Malaysian politician. He is a member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a component party of the BN coalition. He is currently a Member of the Executive Committee (EXCO) of UMNO Youth and Selangor UMNO Youth Secretary since March 2023, as well as the Youth Division Chief of UMNO Selayang since March 2018.[1]\n", "Shah first served as Youth Division Chief of UMNO Selayang in 2018 when he won the post after another candidate pull out of the competition at the very last minute.[citation needed] He won his second term as Youth Division Chief of UMNO Selayang on a landslide win in 2023 UMNO leadership elections.[citation needed] He then later won the UMNO Youth post election during the 2023 United Malays National Organisation leadership election coming in 4th place out of 113 candidates with 17,021 votes.[2] He then was appointed as Selangor UMNO Youth Secretary under Selangor UMNO Youth Chief, Dato Mohd Imran Tamrin.[citation needed]\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Photograph_of_Shamsiah_Fakeh.jpg/220px-Photograph_of_Shamsiah_Fakeh.jpg", "name": "Shamsiah_Fakeh", "overview": ["\nShamsiah Fakeh (1924 \u2013 20 October 2008) was a Malaysian nationalist and feminist. She was the leader of Angkatan Wanita Sedar (AWAS), Malaysia's first nationalist women organisation and a prominent Malay leader of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM). She was the grandmother of Jamaliah Jamaluddin, Member of the Selangor State Executive Council (EXCO) and Member of the Selangor State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Bandar Utama.\n", "Shamsiah was born in the village of Kampung Gemuruh near the town of Kuala Pilah, Negeri Sembilan. She had her early education in the Madrasah Aliah Islaiah (also known as the Islamic High School) in Pelangai, Negeri Sembilan[1] and was later sent to the Madrasah Tuddimiah in Padang Panjang, Sumatera in what was then the Dutch East Indies.[2] It was during this time that she came under the influence of Lebai Maadah, an influential scholar and Islamic reformer.[3]\n", "Shamsiah was married five times from the age of 17. Her first husband, Yasin Kina, abandoned her while she was pregnant with their second child and both children died in their infancy. Her second husband, J. M. Rusdi, was eventually discovered to be an informer for the Japanese forces then occupying Malaya.\n", "She was also briefly married to Ahmad Boestamam, the leader of PKMM's youth wing, Angkatan Pemuda Insaf (Awakened Youth Organisation; API). In her memoirs, she claimed that her marriage with Boestamam broke down due to her disagreement with the latter's decision to pay a fine to avoid a jail sentence for publishing a book deemed seditious by government in 1947.[1] Notably the marriage was never mentioned in any of Boestamam's memoirs and writings.\n", "Her fourth husband, Wahi Annuar, was a fellow CPM member who was captured by British and imprisoned. Shamsiah was told that he had surrendered and thought he was dead. He was, in fact, imprisoned for 15 years and eventually died in 1980.\n", "Her final marriage was to another CPM member, Ibrahim Mohamad, in 1956. They remained married until his death in 2006.[4]\n", "As a fiery orator, Shamsiah was scouted by both the United Malays National Organisation and the Malay Nationalist Party (Malay: Partai Kebangsaan Melayu Malaya, PKMM), the main Malay political parties in the post-war period. She eventually chose to join PKMM because she believed it was more dedicated to the struggle for Malaya's independence whereas she considered UMNO a puppet of the British.[1] In 1946, she was asked to lead PKMM's women's wing, Angkatan Wanita Sedar (Cohort of Awakened Women; AWAS).\n", "With the banning of the PKMM, API and AWAS in 1948 prior to the declaration of the Malayan Emergency followed by the mass arrests of left leaning Malay nationalists, Shamsiah retreated to the jungles and joined the predominantly Malay 10th Regiment of the Malayan People's Liberation Army of the CPM operating from Lubok Kawah near Temerloh, Pahang. When the 10th Regiment was forced to retreat together with the 11th and 12th Regiment to the Thai-Malaya border in 1953 after a series of military defeats beginning with the Battle of Padang Piul in 1949, Shamsiah joined the retreat and continued to fight as a guerilla until she was sent to the China for further education together with her husband, Ibrahim Mohamad, in 1956.[1]\n", "The couple remained in China and served as broadcasters with Radio Peking's Malay language service airing propaganda broadcasts via shortwave to Malaya. In 1965, they were assigned by the party to Indonesia to set up a legation office of the Malayan National Liberation League. Their stint was, however, short lived as they were arrested later that year due to the anti-communist purges in Indonesia in the aftermath of the 30 September Movement. They remained imprisoned until 1967 when they obtained their freedom through the mediation of the embassy of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and obtained passage via Vietnam back to China.[1]\n", "As a result of faction politics within the CPM and the chaos that resulted from the Cultural Revolution in China during the period, Shamsiah and her husband became increasingly estranged from the party's Secretary General, Chin Peng. Both Shamsiah and her husband were expelled from the party in 1972. As they were unable to return to Malaysia (established in 1963 with the federation of Malaya, Singapore, British North Borneo, and Sarawak), they settled in the town of Xiangtan, Hunan and were assigned to work in a steel factory.[4] She also served as a Malay language consultant with Radio Beijing and the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute.[1]\n", "Shamsiah and her family applied to the Malaysian government for permission to return to the country from 1985 onwards. Following the terms of the 1989 peace agreement signed between the CPM and the Government of Malaysia in Haadyai, Thailand, permission was finally granted on 23 July 1994 and Shamsiah returned along with her husband, their three sons and their four grandchildren. Upon their arrival, the family was met by Special Branch officers who took them to a resort and for about 10 days, they were debriefed and briefed on the local customs and political scenario in Malaysia. One of the conditions for the family's return was a bar on participation in politics and for the first few years upon their return, Shamsiah was not even allowed to participate in academic speaking engagements.[4] Her Chinese daughters-in-law were initially barred entry into the country but were eventually granted permanent residency.[5]\n", "Her memoirs were first published in 2004 by Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) but was immediately suppressed by the authorities and withdrawn from circulation. A new edition as well as a Chinese language translation was published in 2007 by the Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (SIRD) which saw UKM reintroduce their edition into the market.[6][7]\n", "Following a stroke in 1999, Shamsiah had generally been in poor health and was bedridden by 2007.[5][8] She died on 20 October 2008 at the residence of her son, Jamaluddin Ibrahim (father of Jamaliah Jamaluddin), due to respiratory failure and was buried at the Sungai Besi Muslim cemetery at 5.30pm of the same day.\n", "Present at the funeral were some prominent politicians including the deputy president of Parti Keadilan Rakyat, Syed Husin Ali, and Democratic Action Party Member of Parliament, Tony Pua.\n", "In 1981, the defected chairman of the CPM, Musa Ahmad, claimed that Shamsiah had committed infanticide by killing her third child while in the jungle to avoid capture.[9]\n", "She subsequently denied the allegation in her memoirs and explained that she was convinced by fellow guerillas to give the child away to local villagers to be raised upon entering an unfamiliar district. It was only later that she discovered that the child had in fact been killed. The Japanese was raiding the whole village in an attempt to find her child, and threatened to behead everyone in the village if the child is found hidden by one of the villagers. There was no way to hide the crying child, so it was killed by one of the villagers by drowning, and the Japanese never found it.[1]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://scontent.fkul8-3.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/31647961_10155416779487031_7320464764654583808_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=7f8c78&_nc_ohc=qSGKK39Bck0AX_ifP_6&_nc_pt=1&_nc_ht=scontent.fkul8-3.fna&cb_e2o_trans=q&oh=00_AfB-RT_cLxaUAp-Qa4Uv2FPnRh4tSi0SpA69ecQqMuSdgw&oe=65D2A864", "name": "Ajis_Sitin", "overview": ["Ajis bin Sitin (born 8 April 1963) is a Malaysian civil servant who has served as the Director-General of Department of Orang Asli Development from 2017 to 2019.[1][2] He was appointed as a Senator on 25 August 2021 to represent Pahang.[3]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://www.theborneopost.com/newsimages/2018/07/Sukarti-Wakiman-1.jpeg", "name": "Sukarti_Wakiman", "overview": ["\n", "Tan Sri Datuk Seri Panglima Sukarti bin Wakiman was the 8th State Secretary of Sabah from 3 July 2008 to 8 July 2018.\n", "He was born and bred in Labuan to an ethnic Malay family of two parents with distinct ethnic ancestries, being born to an ethnic Javanese immigrant father from Java, Indonesia and his local-born ethnic Bruneian Malay wife.\n", "Sukarti started his education in Kerupang Primary School of Labuan in 1961, before he continued his study at Sabak Bernam Secondary School, Selangor in 1967, and Sekolah Alam Shah, Kuala Lumpur in 1970.\n", "In 1974, he continued his studies at University of Malaya and got a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Anthropology in 1977.\n", "He joined State Public Service on 15 July 1977 as Manpower Officer at Sabah Ministry of Manpower and Environment Development, before promoted to the same post as the senior one. In 1980, he was appointed as Administrative Officer in the state ministry.\n", "On 25 September 1981, he was promoted as Ceremonial and Protocol Officer at Ceremonial and Protocol Division, Chief Minister's Department, before transferred to State Development Department as Senior Administrative Officer of Coordination on 1 September 1984.\n", "After 23 days, he was chosen to hold the office of the Private Secretary to the State Governor, Mohd. Said Keruak, until 6 May 1994. He then promoted to the post of the Permanent Secretary in the State Ministry of Fishery and Agriculture (on 7 May 1994) and in the State Ministry of Rural Development (on 16 May 1996). On 23 March 1998, he was appointed as the Director of State Public Service and reappointed back to the same post once again on 24 April 2000. Before that, on 13 January 2000, he was appointed as the Permanent Secretary of Infrastructure Development.\n", "On 3 July 2007, he was sworn in as the 8th Secretary of State of Sabah[1] succeeding KY Mustafa. He retired on 8 July 2018 and was replaced by Hashim Paijan.\n", "He is married with Hairani Hussaini.\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://apicms.thestar.com.my/uploads/images/2023/08/07/2217629.jpg", "name": "Sundarajoo_Somu", "overview": ["Sundarajoo a/l Somu is a Malaysian politician from DAP. He has been the member of Penang State Executive Council for Housing and Environment and the Member of Penang State Legislative Assembly for Perai since 2023.\n", "Sundarajoo was born into a poor family in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur.[1]\n", "Sundarajoo got his diploma from the Federal Institute of Technology. He is also a Master in Business Administration from Nottingham Trent University.[1]\n", "Sundarajoo first worked as an adjuster for the General Insurance Association of Malaysia. He lost his work during the 1987 financial crisis and started working as a field conductor in an estate. Then, he started working as a taxi driver before becoming a security guard where Tan Sri Liew Kee Sin, the founder of S P Setia, lived. Subsequently, he worked as Liew's driver before joining S P Setia in 2005 as a salesman. In 2002, he was made the general manager of S P Setia for the northern region of Malaysia. In 2014, following Permodalan Nasional Berhad\u2019s takeover of S P Setia, he helped Liew to set up EcoWorld and became the Deputy Chairman and deputy CEO of EcoWorld.[1][2]\n", "Sundarajoo joined DAP in 2018.[1]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://scontent.fkul8-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/299364390_633542058101925_6766687166258625246_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=efb6e6&_nc_ohc=-ypwzu_PUqcAX81e0dJ&_nc_pt=1&_nc_ht=scontent.fkul8-2.fna&cb_e2o_trans=q&oh=00_AfDWuT1JyGTGmMlgBy_UkUBdpUhZG66s5CTnDe5CSuCaSw&oe=65B0F5C1", "name": "Arunarsin_Taib", "overview": ["\n", "Arunarsin bin Taib is a Malaysian politician who has served as Member of the Sabah State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Gum-Gum since May 2018. He served as the State Assistant Minister of Youth and Sports of Sabah in the Heritage Party (WARISAN) administration under former Chief Minister Shafie Apdal and former Ministers Frankie Poon Ming Fung and Ginger Phoong Jin Zhe from May 2018 to the collapse of the WARISAN administration in September 2020. He is a member of WARISAN.\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://malaysiagazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/IMG_5628.jpeg", "name": "Connie_Tan_Hooi_Peng", "overview": ["Connie Tan Hooi Peng is a Malaysian politician. A member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), she has been the member of the Penang State Legislative Assembly representing Seri Delima since 2023.\n", "Connie is a law graduate from Oxford Brookes University.[1]\n", "Connie has been involved in politics since 2013 and served eight terms as a member of Penang Island City Council, from 2014 to 2015, then from 2018 to 2023.[1][2][3] She is also the Chairwomen for DAP Taman Harbour View Branch and Publicity Secretary of DAP Women Wing.[4]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://scontent.fkul8-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/305765600_517177447076161_7638375657355921167_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=efb6e6&_nc_ohc=90wgooINVRcAX8DkPAV&_nc_pt=1&_nc_ht=scontent.fkul8-1.fna&cb_e2o_trans=q&oh=00_AfAN_2MCpn1X90QSZgQJanL5mY_jeW-Dvq18yeg8mFYSzA&oe=65B123AB", "name": "Tan_Keng_Liang", "overview": ["\n", "Tan Keng Liang (simplified Chinese: \u9648\u5e86\u4eae; traditional Chinese: \u9673\u6176\u4eae; pinyin: Ch\u00e9n Q\u00ecngli\u00e0ng; born 14 November 1977), is a politician in Malaysia but has not been elected in either State or Parliament Seats, who is currently the Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (Gerakan) Youth Chief. Gerakan is a component of Malaysia's previous ruling coalition, Barisan Nasional (BN). He won the election for the post of Gerakan Youth head for the 2013/2016 session at the Gerakan Youth and Wanita wings' conference defeating Oh Tong Keong.\n", "Over the usage of the word \"Allah\" in The Herald, he said the Barisan Nasional supreme council should also convene an emergency meeting as soon as possible to resolve the dispute once and for all.[1]  He urged the Barisan Nasional supreme council to take a firm and fair stand on the \"Allah\" issue soon and wants BN leadership to reach an amicable solution to resolve the contentious matter after seeking views of all its 13 component parties.[2] He said this in an e-statement in response to the Court of Appeal (COA) decision to stop the Catholic weekly periodical The Herald from using the term \"Allah\" in its Bahasa Malaysia publication as a reference to \"God\".\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1171613590232584193/i5GFBCIN_400x400.jpg", "name": "Nathaniel_Tan", "overview": ["\nNathaniel Tan (born 1980) is a Malaysian of Chinese-Indian Peranakan descent. In July 2007, he came under the spotlight when he was detained by the Royal Malaysian Police for allegedly violating the Official Secrets Act.[1] He was then working with current Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim. After being detained for a few days, he was released with no charges preferred.\n", "Nat was the editor of a book on the conflict between former Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir Mohamad and Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, titled Mahathir vs. Abdullah: Covert Wars and Challenged Legacies and published in early 2007. He later co-edited a book on religion and politics with John Lee, Religion Under Siege?: Lina Joy, the Islamic State and Freedom of Faith, published in early 2008. Nat has since co-edited two books on Malaysian politics with Lee, Political Tsunami: An End to Hegemony in Malaysia? and Where is Justice?: Death and Brutality in Custody. The latter, a book concerning custodial deaths, including high-profile cases such as those of Altantuya Shaariibuu and Teoh Beng Hock, was confiscated from a number of bookstores in late January 2010, a month after its release, prompting concerns that it may have been banned by the Home Ministry.[2]\n", "Nat originally lived in the Damansara Utama suburb of Petaling Jaya, before moving to Taman Tun Dr Ismail in Kuala Lumpur. He attended Sunway University College where he studied for his A Levels, before attending Harvard College in the United States, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in 2004 with a Special Concentration in Peace and Conflict Studies.[3]\n", "In February 2007, a book edited by Nat, titled Mahathir vs. Abdullah: Covert Wars and Challenged Legacies, was published by the publishing arm of Malaysiakini. The book carried commentary by politicians such as Anwar Ibrahim and Lim Guan Eng, and also articles by local commentators and activists.[4]\n", "A month later, Nat joined Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), serving as an aide to Tian Chua, the party's information chief.[3] He later began working for the party's de facto head, Anwar Ibrahim, as Anwar's secretary for work related to the Foundation For the Future, which Anwar was then president of.\n", "On 13 July 2007, Tan was detained by three plainclothes policemen, who requested that he bring his notebook computer and follow them to the police headquarters at Bukit Aman. However, Tan's lawyer later stated that according to Bukit Aman, there was no record of his detention. A police report was filed alleging Tan had been kidnapped.[5]\n", "At 10pm that day, roughly six hours after his disappearance, Bukit Aman confirmed that they were holding Tan. Malaysiakini reported that \"According to the police, Tan will be held for 24 hours by the Cyber Crime Unit in Jalan Dato Onn to facilitate investigation under the Official Secrets Act,\" and that Tan's home desktop computer had been seized as well. Shortly afterwards, Tan was transferred to a different police station. It was announced that he would appear before a magistrate the following day for further remand.[5]\n", "On 14 July, Tan was remanded for four days by a magistrate, who rejected the police request for a 14-day remand order, the maximum permitted under the law. The proceedings commenced before the arrival of his lawyers, who later alleged that the investigating police officers intentionally refrained from informing them about the proceedings, and that the court police had also misled the investigating officers about Tan's lawyers' whereabouts.[6]\n", "An investigating officer later confirmed that Tan was being investigated for a potential violation of section 8 of the Official Secrets Act, which pertains to \"wrongful communication, etc. of [an] official secret\". Tan had reportedly published a comment on his blog alleging corruption on the part of Deputy Internal Security Minister Johari Baharom. After Tan's arrest, Johari announced that he had instructed the police to investigate \"lies\" published on the internet.[6]\n", "One of Tan's lawyers, R. Sivarasa, stated that the remand order was meant only to \"put Nat under duress\". Citing the fact that several documents, CDs, and computers had been seized from Tan's office, home and car, Sivarasa stated:\n", "If the remand is for investigation why continue to detain him, when he has given everything? This is a fishing expedition. There's clearly another agenda behind this. ... This is purely an act of oppression. I want to go on record (to say) this detention is politically motivated.[7]", "On 18 July, Tan was released at 5.15pm on police bail, but was required to report back to the Commercial Crime Investigation Department in Kuala Lumpur on 31 July.[8][9]\n", "After Tan's detention, Anwar condemned his arrest, and called for Tan's family members and lawyers to be given access to him. Parliamentary Opposition Leader Lim Kit Siang condemned \"secretive circumstances in the first seven hours of Tan's arrest\", calling them \"a scandal which speaks of a police which has yet to fully accept that the first principle of policing in a democratic system must be policing for the people and not policing to serve the government leaders of the day\". Lim also suggested that Tan might be a \"pawn\" used by the police and government to \"protect their vested interests\".[10]\n", "Human rights watchdog Suara Rakyat Malaysia (Suaram) alleged that Tan's rights under the Constitution of Malaysia had been violated:\n", "Under Article 5(3), it is the duty of the police to tell the (detainee) the grounds of arrest as soon as possible and allow Tan to consult his lawyer ... In the case of Tan, he was not told of the ground of arrest but was taken away on the pretext of investigations and the lawyers were not informed of his arrests ... Was the police trying to avoid informing the detainee of the ground of arrest by not making it clear to Tan that it was in fact an arrest?[10]", "Other organisations that condemned Tan's detention included the Malaysian Bar Council, the Centre for Independent Journalism and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT).[7] The Sun condemned the circumstances surrounding Tan's detention as \"attempts at obstructing justice\", and called them \"politically motivated\".[11]\n", "In response to a question in Parliament from Lim about two months after Tan's detention, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi stated that \"The arrest and the police report [filed against another blogger] are usual procedures followed by the police.\"[12]\n", "In early 2008, Kinibooks, the publishing branch of Malaysiakini, published Religion Under Siege?: Lina Joy, the Islamic State and Freedom of Faith, a book Tan co-edited with John Lee about religious and political issues in Malaysia. It later published Tan's and Lee's Political Tsunami: An End to Hegemony in Malaysia? in 2008, and Where is Justice?: Death and Brutality in Custody in late 2009.\n", "In late January 2010, about a month after its release, the Royal Malaysian Police and Home Ministry confiscated copies of Where is Justice? from bookstores in Penang and Malacca, prompting concerns that it may have been banned. The authorities also confiscated copies of 1FunnyMalaysia, another Kinibooks book, claiming that both books \"could pose a threat to public order, morality, security\".[2] In a statement on his blog, Tan insisted that \"We took considerable pains to ensure that everything in Where is Justice was carefully written to be factual, and all opinion therein had been previously published online. ... Don't shoot the messenger.\"[13] On 5 February 2010, police in Seremban, Negri Sembilan, confiscated 12 copies of Where is Justice? and 10 of 1FunnyMalaysia; an officer who participated in the raid said \"We are not banning the books but are just taking them to analyse their content.\" Malaysiakini is reportedly consulting its lawyers and considering legal action.[14] A few days later, a further eight copies were seized from another Seremban bookstore, and another four from a Johor Bahru bookstore.[15]\n", "Writer and filmmaker Amir Muhammad criticised the seizures, saying: \"Every publisher gives five copies of each book to the National Library. So, why can't the authorities borrow the books from there instead of confiscating them from bookstores? If they need it for 'study' or 'review', why can't they buy a copy instead of taking all the copies for free? I'm sure one is enough for their purpose.\" He also urged bookstores to be proactive in opposing the confiscations, citing a previous instance where \"Only one of [Salman] Rushdie's books, The Satanic Verses, was banned by the Home Ministry but MPH removed all of Rushdie's books from the shelves. That's a case in point of booksellers taking a soft stand against the banning of books. This is self-censorship.\"[16]\n", "Home Ministry deputy secretary-general Ahmad Fuad Ab Aziz later said that the ministry's enforcement officers found the titles to be \"offensive\" and in violation of the Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984. However, he said the ministry was still deciding whether it would ban the books in question.[16]\n", "Besides writing and publishing, Nathaniel Tan is also very passionate in education. He has served on the Harvard board of interviewers for three years \u2013 two of which (2008 and 2009) as an interviewer, and two (2010 and 2011) as an observer. He has also been one of the speakers for several US University Admission talks in Malaysia.\n", "He has previously provided assistance to students applying to US universities. During his first year (2009) in this field, a number of Nat's 25 students were offered admission into Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Chicago, among others.[17]\n", "On August 4, 2021, Tan made the news again in Malaysia by going on a hunger strike calling for five firm actions by the unpopular Perikatan Nasional government under whom Covid-19 cases and deaths were spiralling.[18]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://scontent.fkul8-4.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/154805926_2963847143892564_3516530892170592792_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=0bb214&_nc_ohc=N0x3Hs8u2GYAX_JDlFy&_nc_pt=1&_nc_ht=scontent.fkul8-4.fna&cb_e2o_trans=q&oh=00_AfCLdmEgPvKPa1iR1ahPz5sOzC1EKfyCVt9oV1neERU1_A&oe=65D29E1E", "name": "Lai_Teck", "overview": ["\n", "Lai Teck (real name Ph\u1ea1m V\u0103n \u0110\u1eafc; 1901\u20131947) was a leader of the Communist Party of Malaya and Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army. A person of mixed Sino-Vietnamese descent,[7][8] prior to his arrival in Malaya, Lai Teck was believed to have led his life as Truong Phuoc Dat until 1934, during which Dat disappeared and Lai Teck appeared.[9]\n", "Lai Teck was a shadowy character whose real name and background are unknown. He was believed to be born under the name of Hoang A Nhac or Ph\u1ea1m V\u0103n \u0110\u1eafc in the B\u00e0 R\u1ecba (now B\u00e0 R\u1ecba\u2013V\u0169ng T\u00e0u province) in 1901.[2] According to his successor Chin Peng, he curiously chose the party alias 'Wright' which, given the Chinese pronunciation of English words beginning with the letter 'r' soon became distorted to Lai Te. This was further mangled, depending on who was writing or speaking English, to 'Loi Teck', 'Lai Teck' and 'Lighter'.[10]\n", "Lai Teck was believed to have served the French as a spy in Indochina but been uncovered. It was subsequently alleged that he was recruited by the British security services and brought to Singapore in 1934 to infiltrate the Communist Party of Malaya.\n", "At this he was highly successful, and by using the colonial police force to pick off his rivals within the Party he rose through the hierarchy and attained the Communist Party of Malaya leadership as its secretary general in April 1939.[11] Perhaps because of this, he steered the Party on a course of non-confrontation with the British and wholly embraced the Communist International's new line of co-operation with the United States and the Western European powers against Nazi Germany and Japan.\n", "Although many of the CPM's top personnel managed to flee Singapore before its capture by Japanese forces, Lai Teck did not and was picked up in a Japanese sweep shortly after in early March 1942. Although most communists were executed by the Japanese, Lai Teck walked free a few days later. Based on later evidence, including documents in Japanese archives, it now appears most likely that Lai Teck saved his life by promising to act as a Japanese agent.\n", "In August 1942 Lai Teck arranged for a full meeting which included the CPM's Central Executive Committee, state party officials, and a group leaders of the MPAJA to be held at the Batu Caves, about ten miles north from Kuala Lumpur. On 1 September 1942, more than 100 senior CPM and MPAJA members gathered at a small village near the Caves for a secret conference, the Japanese staged a surprise raid at dawn. In the ensuing lopsided skirmish most of the CPM and MPAJA high command were destroyed. Lai Teck, who should have been at the meeting, wasn't. Subsequently, he claimed that he had been unable to attend because his car broke down.\n", "The MCP adopted a new party program after the end of World War II and the liberation of Malaya from Japanese forces. Seeking to reconcile its own goals and that of the British, which had provided the MCP with training, and logistical and material support during the Japanese occupation of Malaya, the new program sought an alliance with Allied forces and called for self-governance with the aim of eventually achieving independence, going against the party's wartime policy, which had advocated independence upon the expulsion of Japan. In an accompanying document, Lai Teck placed emphasis on the party's political struggle, arguing that if the party were to \"adopt armed struggle immediately we would become isolated and alienated from the people. This is a kind of leftist Blanquist revolutionary action that is not suitable for the present circumstances...\".[12]\n", "While the true scope of opposition to Lai Teck and the new program remains unclear, scholar Marc H. Opper concludes that it had reached a level that required direct refutation by the party's leadership (i.e., Lai Teck), and that the a split had occurred over the party's new direction. For example, an incident where the Kedah state committee opted to enforce the party's wartime program required the intervention of Chin Peng at the behest of Lai Teck, who managed to resolve the conflict peacefully.[13]\n", "In 1946, faint rumours which had been circulating within the party about disloyalty on the part of Lai Teck began to receive more substantiation. This was exacerbated by the restlessness of the rank and file, especially the younger members, who favoured radical action. Lai Teck was removed from some sensitive posts, and an investigation was begun into his activities. A full meeting of the Central Executive Committee was scheduled for 6 March 1947 at which the complaints against Lai Teck were to be aired in his presence.  Lai Teck did not attend but instead absconded with the bulk of the Party's funds, hiding first in Singapore, then going to Hong Kong and later to Thailand.[14]\n", "With Lai Teck gone, the party elected a new leader, Chin Peng. According to Chin Peng, he personally went to Bangkok and Hong Kong in 1947, contacted the communist party organizations there and asked them to help him to track down and kill Lai Teck; both the Vietnamese and Thai communists assisted Chin Peng in the manhunt;[14] and eventually, Chin Peng was told by the Thai Communist leader that Lai Teck was accidentally killed in Bangkok some time when three Thai Communists tried to capture him. Reportedly, Lai Teck was suffocated during the struggle, after which his body was put into a gunny sack and tossed into the Menam River.[14][15]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://idirektori.penang.gov.my/upload/1/283/TEH%20LAI%20HENG.jpg", "name": "Teh_Lai_Heng", "overview": ["Teh Lai Heng is a Malaysian politician. A member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), he has been the member of the Penang State Legislative Assembly representing Komtar since 2013. \n", "Teh studied in SMJK Jit Sin and TARC Penang before studying in Universiti Sains Malaysia.[1]\n", "Teh is currently the Chairman of DAP Padang Kota branch, Secretary of DAP Tanjong division, and the political secretary for the DAP Penang Chairman, Chow Kon Yeow.[1]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Teng_Chang_Yeow.jpg/220px-Teng_Chang_Yeow.jpg", "name": "Teng_Chang_Yeow", "overview": ["\n", "Teng Chang Yeow (Chinese: \u9127\u7ae0\u8000; Pe\u030dh-\u014de-j\u012b: T\u0113ng Chiong-i\u0101u; born 12 December 1964 is a former Malaysian politician who served as the Member of the Penang State Legislative Assembly for Padang Kota from 1995 to 2008. He was also the former Secretary-General of the Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (GERAKAN), as well as the former Barisan Nasional (BN) Penang Chief.\n", "He is a younger brother to Teng Chang Khim, the former Speaker of the Selangor State Legislative Assembly and a Selangor State Executive Council member.[1][2][3] Unlike Teng Chang Yeow himself, Teng Chang Khim is a member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a major component of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition.[1][2][3] Nevertheless, both are sons of Teng Boon Ngap, who was a prominent member of the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) before 1980s.[1][2] They are also nephews to the former Tebrau MP Teng Boon Soon.[1][2]\n", "Prior to joining politics, Teng studied at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), and worked as a political secretary to the former Chief Minister of Penang Koh Tsu Koon.[2][4] He served as a municipal councillor from 1992 to 1995.[4]\n", "Teng was firstly elected to the Penang State Legislative Assembly for Padang Kota at the 1995 election, defeating Karpal Singh.[5] He was kept elected in 1999. Becoming Penang Chief Minister's political secretary. He was reelected in 2004 and appointed as Penang State Executive Councillor (Tourism Development and Environment), but lost to Chow Kon Yeow (who later became the Chief Minister of Penang in 2018) in 2008.[6] Before he lost, he was one of the potential CM candidate that could succeed Koh Tsu Koon.[5]\n", "On 22 April 2012, Teng became the Barisan Nasional (BN) Penang Chief, replacing Koh.[7] In the 2013 election, he contested for Bukit Tengah, but was defeated by Ong Chin Wen from the People's Justice Party (PKR).[6] Following the 2013 election, he contested for the Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (GERAKAN) leadership election, but lost to Mah Siew Keong.[8]\n", "In the 2018 election, Teng was announced as the BN candidate for Tanjong Bunga, who fought against the PH unity candidate Zairil Khir Johari.[9] He also previously assured that this would be the last election he contests.[4] He, however, only obtained 3,902 votes and came far behind of Zairil.[10]\n", "The outcome of the election showed the worst result of the BN in the state, with just retaining 2 out of 40 seats in the state.[11] The 2 were from the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO); no MCA or GERAKAN candidates were elected.[10] The BN also lost its ruling party status since the country's independence in 1957.[12] Chow Kon Yeow, whom Teng defeated him for 2 times before, inaugurated as the new Chief Minister of Penang.[13]\n", "After he was defeated in the 2018 Penang state election, Teng made an announcement to resign all positions he was holding, as well as retiring from politics.[10]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/DATUK-RST.jpg/220px-DATUK-RST.jpg", "name": "R.S._Thanenthiran", "overview": ["Datuk Seri R.S. Thanenthiran (born 4 July 1963) is a Malaysian politician and businessman. He is the founder and current president of the Malaysia Makkal Sakti Party (MMSP).[1][2]\n", "Thanenthiran was born on 4 July 1963 at Sungai Petani, Kedah.[1] In 1990, he married Vaney Maniam and they have three children. Before entering politics Thanenthiran worked as a teacher.\n", "Thanenthiran and the MMSP's main ideology is to develop the education level of Malaysian Indians. Thanenthiran has called on political leaders to adopt at least one Tamil school.[3]\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://borneotoday.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/WhatsApp-Image-2023-08-18-at-23.15.13.jpeg", "name": "Uda_Sulai", "overview": ["\n", "Uda bin Sulai is a Malaysian politician who has been the State Assistant Minister. He served as the Member of Sabah State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Petagas from May 2018 until September 2020. He is a member of the Sabah Heritage Party (WARISAN).[1][2]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Wan_Rosdy_Wan_Ismail_2023.jpg", "name": "Wan_Rosdy_Wan_Ismail", "overview": ["Dato' Sri Haji Wan Rosdy bin Wan Ismail (born 1 October 1958[citation needed]) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the 14th Menteri Besar of Pahang since May 2018 and Member of the Pahang State Legislative Assembly for Jelai (MLA) since March 2004. He served as Member of the Pahang State Executive Council (EXCO) from March 2008 to May 2018. He is a member and State Chairman of Pahang of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a component party of the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition. He has also served as the Vice President of UMNO since March 2023.[1][2]\n", "Wan Rosdy received his early education at the Clifford Primary School (1965), Sekolah Menengah Clifford and Sekolah Menengah Mahmud Raub before pursuing a Diploma in Commerce at the Institut Teknologi Mara (ITM).\nHe then pursued his bachelor's degree in Social Science (Political Science) at Universiti Sains Malaysia.\n", "Married to Burhah Mohamed and has three children.[3][4]\n", "Wan Rosdy began his career in the civil service as an executive with the Perak branch of the National Paddy and Rice Board (LPN) in 1985, before being appointed manager at the LPN Complex in Arau, Perlis in 1989. He has also held several posts within Bernas.\n", "Wan Rosdy was elected as Cameron Highlands Umno division chief in 2003 has been Cameron Highlands Barisan Nasional chairperson since 2008.\n", "In 2004, Wan Rosdy was elected as Jelai state assemblyperson and he has been serving the constituency since. He has also served as chairperson of the Pahang Orang Asli Affairs and Rural Development Committee from 2008 to 2013, before being appointed as state exco for the second term as Pahang Housing and Municipal committee chairperson in 2013.\n", "On May 15, 2018, Wan Rosdy was sworn in as Menteri Besar after BN was reelected as the state government in the 2018 Pahang state election, replacing Adnan Yaakob who was retiring after serving in the position for 19 years. Adnan however remained as an MLA. [5] On 28 November 2022 after the 2022 Pahang state election resulted in a hung assembly, he was sworn in as the Menteri Besar for the second term after BN and Pakatan Harapan (PH) agreed to form the state coalition of Pahang and nominate him to be reappointed to the position. The two coalitions received the support from a total of 24 MLAs to do so, which exceeded the simple majority of at least 22 MLAs required.\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://scontent.fkul8-5.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/410422303_877919484336388_2991616663600521159_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=efb6e6&_nc_ohc=kmYpEqA-q1kAX_sdemT&_nc_pt=1&_nc_ht=scontent.fkul8-5.fna&cb_e2o_trans=q&oh=00_AfC1KXVl1HEBSk1k7zxa7mNCaJ6cNzmn5Vx0nGX5MsrnQg&oe=65AFBBF9", "name": "Wilson_Ugak_Kumbong", "overview": ["\n", "Wilson Ugak Kumbong is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Deputy Minister of Digital in the Unity Government administration under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and Minister Gobind Singh Deo since December 2023, Chairman of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) since April 2020 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hulu Rajang since May 2013. He served as the Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department in charge of Sabah and Sarawak Affairs and Special Duties in the PH administration under Prime Minister Anwar and Minister Armizan Mohd Ali from December 2022 to December 2023. He is a member and Vice President of the Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS), a component party of the Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) coalition and formerly Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition.[1] He is also cousin of Alexander Nanta Linggi, the Minister of Works and MP for Kapit.\n", "Kumbong firstly contested and won for the Hulu Rajang seat at the 2013 general election.[2][3] He retained the seat in both the 2018 and 2022 general elections, defeating Abun Sui Anyit from the People's Justice Party (PKR), a component party of then Pakatan Rakyat (PR) and PH opposition coalitions in all three elections and Geroge Lagong from the Sarawak Workers Party (SWP) in 2013. He was appointed as Chairman of NIOSH by the then Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin in April 2020, replacing Alice Lau Kiong Yieng from the Democratic Action Party (DAP), another component party of then PH opposition coalition.[1][4] He is the first Chairman of NIOSH of the Iban ethnicity.[4] He was appointed as Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department in charge of Sabah and Sarawak Affairs by Prime Minister Anwar in December 2022, deputising for Minister Armizan Mohd Ali.\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/WYH_1.jpg/220px-WYH_1.jpg", "name": "Wong_Yuee_Harng", "overview": ["Wong Yuee Harng is a Malaysian politician who has served as Member of the Penang State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Pengkalan Kota since August 2023. He is a member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition. \n", "Wong joined DAP in 2012. He has served in the Penang Island City Council for 8 years before being nominated to contest in the 2023 Penang state election. He is currently the Treasurer and Chief of Youth Wing of DAP Tanjong division.[1]\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://keadilanrakyat.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Y.B.-Puan-Elizabeth-Wong-Keat-Ping-e1677215401426.jpg", "name": "Eli_Wong", "overview": ["\n", "Wong Keat Ping[a] (born 9 March 1970), known professionally as Elizabeth Wong, is a Malaysian politician and activist who served as Member of the Selangor State Executive Council (EXCO) in the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) and Pakatan Harapan (PH) state administrations under former Menteris Besar Khalid Ibrahim and Azmin Ali from March 2008 to May 2018 as well as Member of the Selangor State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Bukit Lanjan from March 2008 to August 2023. She is a member of the People's Justice Party (PKR), a component party of the PH and formerly coalition.\n", "Wong is also a human rights activist and was involved in activist environmental campaigns.\n", "Wong entered the electoral arena as a PKR candidate during the 12th general election. On 8 March 2008, Wong defeated the incumbent and was elected as the new Selangor State Assemblywoman for Bukit Lanjan with a majority of over 5000 votes. Wong will not be defending her seat in the 2023 Selangor state election and will be replaced by Phua Pei Lei.[1]\n", "\n"]}
+{"img_link": "https://scontent.fkul8-5.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/362675247_585792220407160_3963266672968954879_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=efb6e6&_nc_ohc=DOtxjWjorfkAX-WUaAJ&_nc_pt=1&_nc_ht=scontent.fkul8-5.fna&cb_e2o_trans=q&oh=00_AfAaTS8JHji7sK6hdQIIeQEtX5R83X2lcfsN4A1WcRssEQ&oe=65AF6FBD", "name": "Joshua_Woo_Sze_Zeng", "overview": ["Joshua Woo Sze Zeng is a Malaysian politician. A member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), he has been the member of the Penang State Legislative Assembly representing Pulau Tikus since 2023.\n", "Woo was born in Penang Island but moved to Bukit Mertajam when he was 2.[1]\n", "Woo is a Master of Sustainable Development Management from Sunway University.[2]\n", "Woo worked in Hong Kong, Australia and Singapore for more than 13 years before returning to Malaysia in 2015. \n", "Woo was invited to join DAP in 2008 by future Member of Parliament for Bayan Baru, Sim Tze Tzin. He had also campaigned for Berapit candidate Ong Kok Fooi in the 2008 Penang state election. He is currently the Secretary of DAP Jalan Tembikai branch. He was also a member of Seberang Perai City Council.[1][3]\n", "Woo established Generasi Penang, an NGO aimed to provide more opportunities for young Penangites to show their talents. He is also currently the Chairman of Sustainable Malaysia Association, an NGO that he had established, aimed to advocate social, ecological and economic development.\n"]}
+{"img_link": null, "name": "Ibrahim_Yaacob", "overview": ["\nIbrahim bin Yaacob (1911 \u2013 8 March 1979) was a Malayan politician. An opponent of the British colonial government, he was president and founder of the Kesatuan Melayu Muda (KMM).[1] During World War II, he supported the Japanese during their occupation of Malaya[1] and led the Malayan Volunteer Army. Arrested by the British colonial government, he was freed by the Japanese in February 1942, and went on to save hundreds of Malayan soldiers from being killed during the occupation; this saved him from being arrested by Force 136 after the war.[2] He died in Jakarta on 8 March 1979.[3]\n", "Ibrahim was born in Temerloh, Pahang, to a family of Bugis descent.[4] In 1929, he joined the Sultan Idris Teachers' Training College and graduated two years later as a teacher. During the 1930s, he wrote a series of articles that were critical of the British administration in Malay newspapers and was later forced to resign after receiving a warning from the British authorities. He became the editor of a nationalistic newspaper, Majlis, and formed the KMM in 1938.[5] The goal of KMM was to achieve independence for Malaya through union with Indonesia.[6] As a member of KMM, he welcomed and worked with Japanese as he believed that Japanese would aid Malaya in gaining independence and support its fifth column activities.[7]\n", "Several places were named after him, including:\n"]}
+{"img_link": null, "name": "Ismail_Yaacob", "overview": ["\n", "Ismail Yaacob (1949\u20132009) was a Manek Urai state assemblyman.\n", "Ismail, who was deputy head of the Kuala Krai PAS division, won the Manek Urai seat in 1985 and had been the elected representative there for five terms. In 2004, he did not contest the seat but did so in 2008, defeating Mohamed Zulkepli Omar of Barisan Nasional with a majority of 1,352 votes.[citation needed] He was one of the longest-serving PAS elected representatives in Kelantan.\n", "On 21 May 2009, Ismail died at 5:55 AM at the Raja Perempuan Zainab II Hospital where he had been admitted since April for diabetes, heart ailments and gout[citation needed]. He left behind his wife, Siti Zaharah Ibrahim, and 10 children.\n"]}
+{"img_link": null, "name": "Zainal_Abidin_Ahmad_(writer)", "overview": ["\n", "Tan Sri Zainal Abidin bin Ahmad (Jawi: \u0632\u064a\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0627\u0628\u062f\u064a\u0646 \u0628\u0646 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f; 16 September 1895 \u2013 23 October 1973)[1] or better known by the moniker Za'aba (alternatively spelled Za'ba), was a Malaysian writer and linguist. He modernised the Malay language with the publication of a series of grammar books entitled Pelita Bahasa in 1936 at the Sultan Idris Training College. The book contained guidelines in modernising the structure of classical Malay, transforming it into the language that is in use today: the most significant change was the switch from the conventional passive to the modern active form of syntax.[2]\n", "He also devised the Za'aba Spelling system for Malay, which was adopted as the official orthography of Malay in Malaya and successor state Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei until when it was replaced by the New Rumi Spelling in 1972.\n", "Zainal Abidin was born on 16 September 1895 in Kampung Bukit Kerdas, Batu Kikir, Jempol in the state of Negeri Sembilan; the eldest of three children. His mother, Intan Awaluddin (1877\u20131907) was of Minangkabau descent, while his father Ahmad Ibrahim (1862\u20131927) was a Buginese from a well-off family in the Riau Islands \u2014 the latter being the only literate person in the village.[3] Zainal Abidin, however, learned to read and write by himself from the age of five, practising his writing on young banana leaves with a twig as a stylus. This caught the interest of his father, who decided to buy him a writing slate and some chalk. This further motivated Zainal's affinity for writing and helped to finetune his writing skills later on.[4]\n", "Za'aba initially received his early education at a Malay school in Batu Kikir at the age of 12. His academic excellence allowed him to advance by two grades to Year 3. His father transferred him to a nearby school in Linggi in 1909, in the hopes that his son would become an ulama and learn the fields of Arabic and Islamic jurisprudence, among other things.[3] He then continued his study at St. Paul's Institution, Seremban, becoming the first Malay to take and pass the Senior Cambridge test in 1915.[5]\n", "Za'aba started his career as a teacher at:\n", "Za'aba loved reading and had a highly commendable talent in writing, with most of his writings published in local newspapers and magazines. He published a series of monographs in regard to the Malay language, including Pelita Bahasa (lit.\u2009'Light of Language') and Ilmu Mengarang Melayu (lit.\u2009'Malay Writing Skills'). His other writings include a compilation of translated Shakespeare works, Cerita-Cerita Shakespeare, that was published by Percetakan Gudang Chap in Singapore.\n", "Za'aba wrote a lot of essays that were social criticisms against the ills affecting contemporary Malay society and against British colonial rule at the time. His hidden hand[further explanation needed] had a role in the formation of the United Malays National Organisation, a political party that had played an influential role in Malayan and later Malaysian politics as one of the dominant parties in the Alliance coalition (1957\u20131973) and the succeeding Barisan Nasional (1973\u20132018).\n", "Several places were named after him, including:\n"]}
+{"img_link": null, "name": "Zulkefli_Bakar", "overview": ["Zulkefli bin Bakar is a Malaysian politician from BERSATU. He has been a Member of Penang State Legislative Assembly representing Penanti since 2023.\n", "Zulkefli is currently the Chairman of BERSATU Penang and BERSATU Permatang Pauh division.[1]\n"]}