Sarawak state legislative assembly building
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Parti Sarawak Bersatu logo
KUCHING (Jan 30): Veteran politician Dato Sri Edmund Langgu Saga has joined Parti Sarawak Bersatu (PSB), its president Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh announced today.
Wong who announced this in a statement said that Langgu had applied to join the party, and his application had been approved and welcomed wholeheartedly by the party’s leadership.
“I am delighted to announce that Dato Sri Edmund Langgu Saga has applied to join PSB and we welcome him wholeheartedly into the party. He is a political veteran, having been active in politics since before Independence first as an MP and then as assemblyman. Throughout he has helped to give voice to a multi-racial Sarawak in general and for the Dayak peoples in particular.
“Dato Sri Edmund is an icon among the Dayaks of Sarawak – among all of his generation who have been consistently defending and fighting for Dayak rights, aspirations and recognition, he is still a very much respected leader and we are honoured to have him join us,” said Wong.
Descended from the Orang Kaya Beti, from Padeh Betong, Langgu was
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Wong Peng Soon
Malayan-Singaporean badminton player
Badminton player
In this Chinese name, the family name is Wong.
Wong Peng Soon, MBESK (simplified Chinese: 黄秉璇; traditional Chinese: 黃秉璇; pinyin: Huáng Bǐng Xuán; 17 February 1917 – 22 May 1996) was a Malayan/Singaporeanbadminton player who reigned as a top player in Malaya from the 1930s to the 1950s when it was a single nation. Noted for his smooth but powerful strokes and graceful footwork,[4][5] he won the singles title seven times in Singapore and eight times in Malaya during this period, as well as being the top player in the All England, the Danish Open, the Indian and Philippines championships to name a few.
Acknowledged as one of the greatest badminton players of all time,[1][6] he won the All England singles title four times in only five attempts and dominated the Thomas Cup in the late 1940s to the mid 1950s as a member of the Malayan teams.[1] Wong's great rival during his career was his contemporary Ong Poh Lim.[7]
Early life
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S'WAK POLLS While other candidates campaign in quite a high-profile manner, Wong Soon Koh, the BN direct candidate who is defending his Bawang Assan seat for the fourth time, approached voters quietly, without alerting the media.
He did not hold ceramah in town areas like his former colleagues in the Sarawak United People's Party and the opposition.
He did not publicly inform the voters about his campaign via newspapers.
It seems he is fighting an invisible campaign - just 'vanishing' in the outskirts of the town and rural areas, in the Sarawak BN traditional stronghold of Sibu.
On the fourth day of this Sarawak state poll campaign, he visited three longhouses and danced and laughed with the Iban community.
Bawang Assan is a semi-urban and semi-rural area, with 53.1 percent Chinese, 41.3 percent non-Muslim bumiputera and 5.5 percent Malay Melanau.
The school principal-turned-politician has never lost since 1996 state polls. Notably, he won with a landslide majority of 7,096 votes in 2001.
In the 2011 state polls, when DAP harped on allegations surrounding th
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