Hou Kok Chung Politician

Dr Hou Kok Chung (simplified Chinese: 何国忠; traditional Chinese: 何國忠) is a Malaysian politician and was one of the Deputy Ministers for Higher Education along with Dato Saifuddin Abdullah in the Malaysian Cabinet. He is an alumnus of Malaya University and used to work as an academician in the same university before he stood for elections.In the 12th Malaysian general elections Dr Hou Kok Chung contested in the Parliamentary area of P.152 Kluang on the Barisan Nasional ticket and polled 27,970 votes against his opponent Ng Lam Hua from the Democratic Action Party who only got 24,189 votes.In the 13th Malaysian general elections Dr Hou Kok Chung contested again in the Parliamentary area of P.152 Kluang on the Barisan Nasional ticket and polled 33,215 votes against his opponent Liew Chin Tong from the Democratic Action Party who got 40,574 votes.