Invitation: Chinese New Year Open House

MCA Bagan Division, Youth Section & Wanita Committee
Cordially Invite All residents
To Attend Chinese New Year Open House on
05-02-2012(Sunday)，11.00am-1.00pm
at MCA Bagan Division Premises
4234,Jalan Kampong Benggali,
12200 Butterworth, Pulau Pinang.

Tel : 04-332 4545 Fax : 04-331 3182
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A night of fun and festivity

TENS of thousands of people jammed-packed Jalan Raja Uda in Butterworth, Penang, to attend two mammoth events held in conjunction with the upcoming Chinese New Year.

In welcoming the Chinese Lunar Year of the Dragon this year, dragon dances and dragon-themed structures were the main attraction at both events.

Over at the Tow Boo Kong Temple, a bottle-constructed ‘Ambient Dragon’ sculpture and a giant inflatable ‘Flying Dragon’ took centre stage during the Miao Hui (Temple Fair) 2012 there.

Over at the Tan Si Eng Chuan Tong Clan Association on Jalan Kampung Paya nearby, a mammoth crowd attended the Bagan MCA division’s Chinese New Year Carnival 2012 celebrations.

MCA deputy president Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai, who opened the event, joined about 1,300 line dancers in a brief dance stint before checking out the many activity booths and stalls.

■ Healthy activity: Liow (in red, right) , Dr. Tan Chuan Hong (Organising Chairman), MCA Bagan Division Chairman Loo Khay Thye, Bagan Barisan Nasional co-ordinator David Chua (next to Liow) and Sum Yoo Keong joining the line dancers during the Bagan MCA Chinese New Year Carnival at Dewan Tan Si Eng Chuan Tong on Jalan Kampung Paya, Butterworth.

Led by line dance instructor Lily Tan, the participants, who danced to 20 songs, came from as far as Taiping, Parit Buntar, Sungai Petani, Kulim and Alor Setar.

Liow also witnessed a dragon dance presentation, wushu and karate-do demonstrations as well as several Chinese cultural dances by Super Shape Fitness Centre, Tadika Kaliber and pupils from SJK(C) Kwang Wah Butterworth.

Some 40-odd children from private tutoring institute, Tan Educations from Taman Riang, Butterworth, captivated the audience through five endearing dance performances.

In keeping with the 1Malaysia spirit, the people were treated to several traditional Indian and Malay dances, as Liow later cut and distributed a 1Malaysia cake prepared by the state Information Department.

There were also several booths providing health care products and services, while the 1Malaysia Community Alliance Foundation was at hand to take down public complaints.





Popular Chinese comic characters Lao Fu Tze and Big Potato as well as the Health Ministry’s Germ Buster mascot also posed for photos with the people.

Liow later presented 5kg bags of rice to 251 needy senior citizens from the Bagan parliamentary constituency.

from The Star, Tuesday January 17, 2012

By DERRICK VINESH & HAN KAR KAY

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Bagan rises to the occasion

Bagan MCA Youth is literally going to town with the Jalur Gemilang in the Bagan parliamentary constituency.

Bagan MCA Youth chief David Chua, who is also the Bagan Barisan Nasional (BN) co-ordinator together with Sungai Puyu BN co-ordinator Sum Yoo Keong and Bagan MCA Wanita chief Teh Lay Cheng and several MCA members distributed the Jalur Gemilang in the constituency.

★ Patriotic duty: (From right) Dhingaran, Chua and Bagan MCA vice-chairman Sum Yoo Keong (fifth right) and other BN coalition party members affixing the 'Jalur Gemilang' onto a vehicle at Jalan Raja Uda in Butterworth, Penang.

Also present to lend support was state MIC Youth chief J. Dhinagaran who also helped distribute the flags.

The group, acting in response to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s ‘Fly the Jalur Gemilang’ campaign, also raised 100 of the Malaysian flag at shophouses along Jalan Raja Uda in preparation for the country’s 54th Merdeka Day.

Chua said the campaign in the constituency kicked off yesterday morning with the group distributing 500 mini Jalur Gemilang flags to 500 pupils of the SJK(C) Chung Hwa (II) in Taman Bagan, Butterworth.

“We distributed the flag to the pupils to teach the younger generation to honour and respect our flag and to love our country, as the future of our country lies in the hands of our youth,” he said.

Chua added that the campaign also saw the group giving away 300 mini flags to motorists at Jalan Raja Uda.

Report from The Star. North Metro Tuesday August 23, 2011

Single mum hopes to find long-lost son

A 56-year-old single mother, who is suffering from a heart ailment, is appealing for the public’s help to locate her only son whom she lost contact with 22 years ago.

Looi Kim Bee said several days after delivering her son Lau Kok Boon in Johor on Dec 28, 1976, she placed him in the care of a baby sitter and came to Butterworth to look for a job.

■Please help me: Looi showing a photo of Kok Boon (inset) at the press conference called by Bagan MCA division. With her are Chua (right) and Sum.

She said when her son was six years old, she went to Johor and brought him back and asked her mother in Kampong Pacham in Ipoh to take care of him.

“I went back to Ipoh again when he was 13 to apply the identity card for him and returned here several days later and that was the last time I saw him,” said Looi at a press conference at the Bagan MCA office on Jalan Kampung Benggali in Penang yesterday.


Also present were Bagan MCA Youth chief David Chua and Bagan MCA vice-chairman Sum Yoo Keong.

Looi said several years later when she went back to Ipoh to see her family, the village houses were no longer there.

“I am suffering from a heart ailment and my last wish is to see my son,” she said.

Chua said he believed Lau was still in Ipoh.

He urged those with information on his whereabouts to call the Bagan MCA office at 04-3324545.

from The Star. Metro North
Saturday January 15, 2011

Hopeful of a rebound

THE state MCA has not given up despite losing all state seats in Penang during the last general election, said its Wanita chief Tan Cheng Liang.

“It must be remembered that in 1990, we lost most of the seats but in the following election, the people voted us back to power.

“Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak recently came up with the 1Malaysia concept to build a nation with all races united,” she said in her speech during the Majlis Makan Malam Bulan Tanlung held at a restaurant in Chai Leng Park on Friday.

Tan, who is also Nibong Tebal MCA chief and Barisan Nasional co-ordinator for Jawi, said the party did have its own problems but the members have to be strong and united to overcome them.

She also urged veteran members to disseminate the right information to the voters as they (voters) have regretted voting Barisan out of Penang.

About 60 members of the Wanita Veteran Bureau attended the dinner held in conjunction with the Mid-Autumn festival celebrations.

Also present were event organising chairman Kuan Choy Chun Kun, Bagan MCA Wanita chief Teh Lay Cheng and Bagan MCA division vice chairman Sum Yoo Keong.

The Star. Metro Norh Oct 5,2010

1Bagan Mobile service team's first community service

WHEN the 1Bagan Mobile service team conducted its first community service, they only expected a handful of people to turn up at the Tow Boo Kong Temple in Jalan Raja Uda, Butterworth.

But they were proven wrong when more than 125 people thronged the temple premises to take advantage of the free medical checkup, which included sugar level and blood pressure screening, from 8.30am till noon on Sunday.

Bagan MCA Youth chief David Chua said eight volunteers from the Segi Nursing College on the island conducted the medical check-up with help from Sungai Dua government health clinic representatives.

"The state Welfare Department also sent a six-member team to register the poor for welfare aid. More than 20 people registered for welfare aid on that day."

"At the same time, the Election Commission also set up at booth and managed to register about 100 new voters." he said in a press statement on Monday.

Chua, who is also Bagan parliamentary Barisan Nasional(BN) co-ordinator, said MCA members from the Bagan division turned up in full force to help.

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The Star.Metro 09.09.2010

State should refer to BN constituency coordinators

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SEBERANG PERAI (Aug 29, 2010): Barisan Nasional (BN) representatives appointed by the Prime Minister’s Department as “constituency coordinators” in areas won by the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) in the last general election insist they are legitimate federal officers whom the state should refer to when applying for federal funding.

MCA Bagan division youth chief David Chua, who is the coordinator for the Bagan constituency, where the MP is Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng, said the state’s two municipal councils would benefit by referring their applications to the coordinators who are in a position to evaluate the needs of the people in the area.

He explained that the coordinators were officers on the ground to represent the State Development Officer (SDO) who is appointed by the Prime Minister’s Department to oversee federal allocations in Penang.

“These are federal funds the councils are asking for. So the applications would have to go through federal officers,” he said.

Chua said when announcing the BN’s 1Bagan Community Service Team recently. Also present was state MIC chairman Datuk P.K. Subbaiyah, who is the Bagan Dalam state constituency coordinator.

On Aug 19, Penang executive councillor Chow Kon Yeow, who is also the state DAP chairman, had revealed that the SDO had told the two councils at a meeting on Aug 4 to get the agreement from the BN coordinators before applying for funding for next year.

The state government has since asked for the directive to be made in writing and for a copy of the meeting’s minutes.

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop, later told reporters the councils were merely asked to discuss the use of the funds with the coordinators.

Although the Penang island and Seberang Perai municipal councils (MPPP and MPSP) had in the past applied for their allocations to the Housing and Local Government Ministry, this was changed after the last general election when PR won the state. The councils were then required to apply through the SDO instead.

Calling SDO Nik Ali Mat Yunos his "boss", Chua took the PR state government to task for its barrage of criticisms against him. -- theSun

The Sun: 29 Aug,2010
By Himanshu Bhatt

MCA division sets up service team to help needy folk

COME tomorrow(28 August), the Bagan MCA division in Penang will launch the 1Bagan Community Service Team aimed at helping the people.

Bagan MCA division Youth chief David Chua said the team would be going around their divisions to register new voters and provide assistance to single mothers, the handicapped, poor and needy.

“Representatives from the Federal Government together with the state Welfare Department, state Health Department and Election Commission will be present at the launching.

“It will be held at the Tow Boo Kong Temple on Jalan Raja Uda from 8.30am,” he told a press conference at the Bagan MCA division headquarters on Jalan Kampung Benggali.

“Even though Barisan Nasional lost some of the seats in the last general election, we are still committed to helping the folk,” he said.

Also present were state MIC liaison committee chairman Datuk P.K. Subbaiyah, Bagan MCA Wanita chief Teh Lay Cheng and Bagan MCA division vice-chairman Sum Yoo Keong.

Chua, who is also the Barisan Nasional parliamentary co-ordinator, said the service team would go around the Bagan constituency looking for people to help.

Subbaiyah praised the people’s outreach programme to be carried out by the Bagan MCA.

■ Bagan BN 1Malaysia mobile service project committee members (seated from left) State MIC Chairman Datuk PK Subbaiyah, Bagan BN Parlimentary Co-ordinator David Chua, Bagan MCA Vice-chairman Sum Yoo Keong and Bagan Jermal Constituency Co-ordinator Teh Lay Cheng discussing during the meeting as other committee members looks on at Bagan MCA office in Butterworth yesterday.

Saturday August 28, 2010 . The Star

Man who burned Guan Eng's photo attacked

BUTTERWORTH: A legal firm runner was attacked by a group of men and he claimed the attack could be linked to his action of setting alight a poster of Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng during a Penang Barisan Nasional Youth demonstration on Nov 30.

S. Krishnan, 47, received 16 stitches on his right thigh at the Seberang Jaya Hospital but was not warded. He also sustained bruises on the neck, back and hips.

Krishnan, whose nickname is Mak Mandin Kumar, said he was on his motorcycle and heading home in Taman Mak Mandin after dinner at 10pm on Sunday when the attack took place.

In pain: Krishnan relating the incident to Chua (right) and Sum at the Seberang Jaya Hospital on SundayHe said he had sought refuge at a petrol station in Jalan Permatang Pauh, about 1km from his home, when he realised that he was being tailed by a group of men on motorcycles.

“I left the petrol station 10 minutes later when I thought the coast was clear,” he added. Krishnan said he was, however, cornered by eight men on four motorcycles at a remote spot at the Mak Mandin light industrial area.

He said six of them, including two armed with kitchen knives, attacked him while the other two stood as lookouts.

Speaking to reporters at his home yesterday, Krishnan said several of the men shouted “Cut off his legs!” in Tamil.

He said he called his friends after the assailants fled and they took him to the hospital where Bagan MCA division Youth Chief David Chua and the division’s vice-chairman, Sum Yoo Keong, visited him.

Chua said he visited Krishnan as they were involved in helping residents of Rumah Hijau in Mak Mandin, who are facing eviction.

Krishan had lodged a report at the Mak Mandin police station on Sunday night.