Tiong King Sing

Tiong King Sing (born 3 September 1961) is a Malaysian politician and businessman who has served as Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture since 2022. A president of the Progressive Democratic Party (PDP) since 2017, he represented Bintulu in the Parliament of Malaysia since 1999, and represented Dudong in Sarawak State Legislative Assembly since 2021. He is the Special Envoy of the Prime Ministers Muhyiddin Yassin, Ismail Sabri Yaakob and Anwar to China since April 2020. He served as Special Envoy of the Prime Ministers Najib Razak and Mahathir Mohamad to East Asia from 2014 to 2018. He has served as President of PDP since November 2017. In accordance with its expansion to West Malaysia in November 2017, the party was rebranded with its new name and logo from the Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP), a former component party of the BN coalition. He served as the 3rd Chairman of the BN Backbenchers Club from April 2008 to June 2013. He also served as President of SPDP from May 2014 to November 2017 and Deputy President of SPDP from March 2012 to his promotion to the SPDP presidency in May 2014 and previously the Treasurer-General of SPDP. Following the collapse of the BN administration after the 2018 general election and in the aftermath, a meeting between all Sarawak-based BN component parties was held on 12 June 2018, PDP decided to leave the coalition with the other three parties to form a new Sarawak-based political coalition in the meeting, namely the GPS. He is also one of the only two PDP MPs alongside Baram MP Anyi Ngau.