{"id":1556,"date":"2008-03-13T15:15:11","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T07:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/03\/13\/penang-exco-line-up\/"},"modified":"2008-03-13T15:15:11","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T07:15:11","slug":"penang-exco-line-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/03\/13\/penang-exco-line-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Penang EXCO line up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Prof Ramasamy who is DCM\u00a02 will be in charge of economic planning, education and\u00a0human resources, science, technology\u00a0and innovation. Not to say dummy DCM, but average position.<\/p>\n<p>the CM Lim Guan Eng takes the critical portfolios &#8211; industrial development, international trade, and land affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Public works and utilities, and transport\u00a0is taken by Lim Hock Seng, while Padang Kota assemblyman takes local government portfolio.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Guan Eng holds industrial development and land affairs portfolios<\/strong><br \/>\nBERNAMA<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Thursday\/NewsBreak\/20080313134647\/Article\/index_html\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PENANG, THURS:<\/p>\n<p>Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng announced today that he will hold the <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">industrial development and international trade as well as land affairs and land development<\/span> portfolios in the state cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>First Deputy Chief Minister Mohammad Fairus Khairuddin will be in charge of <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">religious affairs, entrepreneur development and cooperatives, information and social relations<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Second Deputy Chief Minister Dr P. Ramasmy will be responsible for the state&#8217;s <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">economic planning, education and human resources, science, technology and innovation<\/span>, he said in a statement after the swearing-in of the two deputy chief ministers and eight state executive councillors before Yang Dipertua Negeri Tun Abdul Rahman Abbas at Dewan Sri Pinang here today.<\/p>\n<p>Chow Kon Yeow, the Padang Kota assemblyman, holds the <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">local government, traffic management and environment<\/span> portfolios while Lim Hock Seng (Bagan Jermal) is the state executive councillor in charge of public works, utilities <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">(energy, water and telecoms) and transport (air, sea and rail<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>Bukit Tambun assemblyman Law Heng Kiang is responsible for <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">tourism development, culture, arts and heritage<\/span> while Sungai Puyu assemblyman Phee Boon Poh holds the <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">health and welfare and caring society<\/span> portfolios, Air Itam assemblyman Wong Hon Wai (<span style=\"color: #ff0000\">housing, town and country planning<\/span>) and Berapit assemblywoman Ong Kok Foi (<span style=\"color: #ff0000\">youth and sports and women, family and community development<\/span>).<br \/>\nFor the two PKR state excecutive councillors, Batu Maung assemblyman Abdul Malik Kassim is given the portfolio on <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">domestic trade and consumer affairs<\/span> and Bukit Tambun assemblyman Law Choo Kiang (<span style=\"color: #ff0000\">agriculture and agro-based industry, rural development and flood mitigation<\/span>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Prof Ramasamy who is DCM\u00a02 will be in charge of economic planning, education and\u00a0human resources, science, technology\u00a0and innovation. Not to say dummy DCM, but average position. the CM Lim Guan Eng takes the critical portfolios &#8211; industrial development, international trade, and land affairs. Public works and utilities, and transport\u00a0is taken by Lim Hock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[119,130,143,225],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-indian","tag-dap","tag-election-2008","tag-penang","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}