Yong Khoon Seng

{{Short description|Malaysian politician}}

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{{family name hatnote|Yong (杨)|lang=Chinese}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix = Yang Berbahagia Datuk

| name = Yong Khoon Seng

| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=MYS|size=100%|PGBK|DSPN|KMN}}

| native_name = {{nobold|{{lang|zh-hans|杨昆贤}}}}

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| birth_name = Yong Khoon Hian @ Yong Khoon Seng

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1941|12|22|df=y}}

| birth_place = Betong, Sarawak

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| office1 = Deputy Minister of Works

| term_start1 = 19 March 2008

| term_end1 = 15 May 2013

| monarch1 = Mizan Zainal Abidin
Abdul Halim

| primeminister1 = Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Najib Razak

| minister1 = Mohd Zin Mohamed
Shaziman Abu Mansor

| constituency1 = Stampin

| office2 = Parliamentary Secretary of the
Ministry of Works

| term_start2 = 1995

| term_end2 = 2008

| monarch2 = Ja'afar
Salahuddin
Sirajuddin
Mizan Zainal Abidin

| primeminister2 = Mahathir Mohamad
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

| minister2 = Samy Vellu

| 1blankname2 = Deputy Minister

| 1namedata2 = Railey Jeffrey
{{small|(1995–1999)}}
Mohamed Khaled Nordin
{{small|(1999–2004)}}
Mohd Zin Mohamed
{{small|(2004–2008)}}

| constituency2 = Padawan
Stampin

| office3 = Parliamentary Secretary of the
Ministry of National Unity and Community Development

| term_start3 = 1990

| term_end3 = 1995

| monarch3 = Azlan Shah
Ja'afar

| primeminister3 = Mahathir Mohamad

| minister3 = Napsiah Omar

| 1blankname3 = Deputy Minister

| 1namedata3 = Alexander Lee Yu Lung

| constituency3 = Padawan

| office9 = Faction represented in Dewan Rakyat

| subterm9 = 1990–2013

| suboffice9 = Barisan Nasional

| party = Sarawak United Peoples' Party (SUPP)

| otherparty = Barisan Nasional (BN)

| occupation = Politician

| profession = Pharmacist

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| alma_mater = University of Queensland

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Yong Khoon Seng ({{zh|t=楊昆賢|s=杨昆贤|p=Yáng Kūnxián}}; born 22 December 1941) was the Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the Stampin constituency in Sarawak, representing the Sarawak United Peoples' Party (SUPP), from 1999 until 2013. He was a Deputy Minister of Works in the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition government.{{cite web|url=http://www.parlimen.gov.my/eng-DewRakyat_KedAhli_detail.php?id=174 |title=Yong Khoon Seng, Y.B. Dato' |publisher=Parliament of Malaysia |language=ms |access-date=7 April 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091124143301/http://www.parlimen.gov.my/eng-DewRakyat_KedAhli_detail.php?id=174 |archive-date=24 November 2009 }}

Yong entered Parliament in 1990 for the seat of Padawan. He was immediately appointed as a Parliamentary Secretary.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=prYTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JJADAAAAIBAJ&pg=4110,3908077&dq=yong-khoon-seng&hl=en|title=Yong right man for the new job|date=28 October 1990|work=New Straits Times|access-date=7 April 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160407063047/https://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=prYTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JJADAAAAIBAJ&pg=4110,3908077&dq=yong-khoon-seng&hl=en|archive-date=7 April 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}} Before entering politics, he was a pharmacist, graduating from the University of Queensland.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=OJ4WAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WRUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2390,1802490&dq=yong-khoon-seng&hl=en|title=Pharmacist-turned-politician prescribes development now|date=5 August 1996|work=New Straits Times|access-date=7 April 2010}} He was born in Betong, Sarawak.

However, at the 2013 general election, Yong lost his seat to a Democratic Action Party (DAP) candidate, Julian Tan Kok Ping.{{cite news|url=http://www.theborneopost.com/2013/05/07/chin-admits-chinese-leaving-bn-in-droves/|title=Chin admits Chinese leaving BN in droves|date=7 May 2013|work=Borneo Post|access-date=19 November 2014}}