Sim Kui Hian
Sim Kui Hian | |
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沈桂贤 | |
Sim in 2025 | |
| Deputy Premier of Sarawak | |
| Assumed office 4 January 2022 Serving with | |
| Governor | Abdul Taib Mahmud (2022–2024) Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar (since 2024) |
| Premier | Abang Abdul Rahman Zohari Abang Openg |
| Preceded by | James Jemut Masing |
| Constituency | Batu Kawah |
| Minister of Public Health, Housing and Local Government Sarawak | |
| Assumed office 4 January 2022 | |
| Governor | Abdul Taib Mahmud (2022–2024) Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar (since 2024) |
| Premier | Abang Abdul Rahman Zohari Abang Openg |
| Deputy Minister (Public Health and Housing) | Penguang Manggil |
| Deputy Minister (Local Government) | Michael Tiang Ming Tee |
| Constituency | Batu Kawah |
| Minister of Local Government and Housing Sarawak | |
| In office 19 January 2017 – 18 December 2021 | |
| Governor | Abdul Taib Mahmud |
| Chief Minister | Abang Abdul Rahman Zohari Abang Openg |
| Constituency | Batu Kawah |
| Minister of Local Government Sarawak | |
| In office 13 May 2016 – 11 January 2017 | |
| Governor | Abdul Taib Mahmud |
| Chief Minister | Adenan Satem |
| Constituency | Batu Kawah |
| Member of the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly for Batu Kawah | |
| Assumed office 7 May 2016 | |
| Preceded by | Christina Chiew Wang See (PR–DAP) |
| Majority | 2,085 (2016) 5,393 (2021) |
| Senator Appointed by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong | |
| In office 5 June 2017 – 28 April 2018 | |
| Monarch | Muhammad V |
| Prime Minister | Najib Razak |
| In office 26 May 2014 – 25 May 2017 | |
| Monarchs | Abdul Halim (2014–2016) Muhammad V (2016–2017) |
| Prime Minister | Najib Razak |
| 6th President of the Sarawak United Peoples' Party | |
| Assumed office 9 September 2014 | |
| Deputy | |
| Preceded by | Peter Chin Fah Kui |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 August 1965 Sarawak, Malaysia |
| Party | Sarawak United Peoples' Party (SUPP) |
| Other political affiliations | Barisan Nasional (BN) (until 2018) Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) (since 2018); Unity Government of Malaysia (allied: since 2022) |
| Spouse | Enn Ong (王淑燕) |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent(s) | Sim Kheng Hong (沈庆鸿) Lim Su Kheng (林素卿) |
| Alma mater | Monash University |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Cardiologist |
| Chinese name | |
| Simplified Chinese | 沈桂贤 |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Shěn Guìxián |
Sim Kui Hian (born 18 August 1965) is a Malaysian politician and cardiologist who served as Deputy Premier of Sarawak since 2022. A president of Sarawak United Peoples' Party, he represented Batu Kawah in Sarawak State Legislative Assembly since 2016. He also served as Minister of Public Health, Housing and Local Government Sarawak since 2022.
Born in Sarawak, Sim graduated from Monash University. Sim is Sarawak's first deputy premier of Chinese descent in more than a decade after George Chan Hong Nam stepped down in 2011. Previously, he served as the Minister of Local Government Sarawak from May 2016 to January 2017 under Adenan Satem's cabinet, and Minister of Local Government and Housing Sarawak from January 2017 to December 2021 under Abang Johari's first cabinet. He also had served as Senator in the Parliament of Malaysia from April 2014 to April 2017.
Additionally, he holds a watching brief role which gives him oversight over the Sarawak Health Department and the Sarawak Fire and Rescue Department, both agencies of the Malaysian federal government. He is also one of the founding Vice Chairmen of the GPS coalition, in which SUPP is a co-founding component party.
While acknowledging that the region of Sarawak is part of Malaysia, Sim is one of the most vocal and consistent proponents for more Sarawakian autonomous power and rights, based on the unique contexts of the Malaysia's formation as originally outlined in the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63), Inter-Governmental Committee (IGC) Report and recommendations, and the Report of the Cobbold Commission.