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Dato' Sri Liow Tiong Lai (Chinese: 廖中莱; pinyin: Liào Zhōnglái; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Liāu Tiong-lâi) is a Malaysian politician who is currently serving as the Health Minister in the Malaysian cabinet.[1] He is the deputy president of the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), a major component party of the Barisan Nasional ruling coalition.[2]
Born in Jasin, Malacca, Liow had ambitions of being a doctor but was thwarted by the university quota system under the New Economic Policy and graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Nutrition) from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia instead.[3] He later obtained his MBA from the University of Malaya.[4]
He is married to Datin Sri Lee Sun Loo and has three children. He is a strong advocate of healthy eating, especially eating organic food.
Liow officially joined the Malaysian Chinese Association in 1981. Soon after graduating from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in 1986, he joined MCA as a research assistant with a monthly salary of RM700. He became press secretary and later political secretary to former MCA deputy president Lim Ah Lek from 1989 to 1999.[1] After two decades of steady rise in the party, he was elected as MCA Youth chief in 2005 and was elected as a vice president in 2008.
Liow is also Bentong Member of Parliament, having held the parliamentary seat since 1999. In 2006, he was appointed Deputy Youth and Sports Minister in a Cabinet reshuffle. Following the 2008 general elections, Liow became Minister of Health under prime minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. He remained in this position after Najib Tun Razak assumed the premiership in April 2009.
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