Last Tuesday, YB Wong Chen was supposed to debate the Control Of Tobacco Product and Smoking Bill 2022 but for some reason the Minister only gave room for 10 debaters. The following is the speech he intended to present during that debate. BTW he supports the GEG bill. [Published on 5 August 2022]

On the 26th of July 2022, YB Wong Chen, who was slated to debate the Independent Police Conduct Commission Bill 2020, was unable to do so as time did not permit it. The following is the speech he intended to present during that debate. - Wong Chen, Facebook (1 August 2022)

YB Wong Chen gave his speech on Rancangan Malaysia Ke-12 (RMKe-12) today. He touched on the issues of sustainability and climate change and how this would negatively impact three important industries to the country, namely the oil and gas industry, forestry industry and palm oil industry. [Published on 29 September 2021]

YB Wong Chen debated on the proposed Finance Bill 2021 today. In particular, he questioned the fiscal soundness of the foreign sources of income exemption policy within this Bill. He pushed for disclosure of the cost benefit analysis pursued by the government in considering this new policy, as he believes proper taxation can be a key tool in addressing economic inequality in Malaysia. Listen to his speech here. [Published on 14 December 2021]

YB Wong Chen took part in his second debate today concerning the Sales Tax (Amendment) Bill 2020. Considering the possibility of this administration scrapping SST and replacing it with GST, he stressed this change should be met with a progressive tax system, additional cash handouts and an increase in our minimum wage to the standard of living wages. This would ensure the GST system does not disproportionately burden the poor. - Wong Chen, Facebook (17 December 2020)

YB Wong Chen took part in the Temporary Measures for Government Financing (Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)) (Amendment) Bill debate today. This amendment aims to increase welfare allocations by adding RM20 billion to the existing RM45 billion in the Covid-19 Fund. While he welcomes increases to the economic recovery programmes, he questions its distribution. As the bill stands, a higher proportion of the sum is allocated to the Bantuan Prihatin National programme as opposed to that under the wage subsidy programme. To generate employment and ensure long-term economic recovery, he urges a recalibration of this distribution in the form of an increase in the wage subsidy allocation. [Published on 17 December 2020]

YB Wong Chen took part in his third debate today, regarding the Excise (Amendment) Bill 2020. He stated that a two-pronged effort is needed to reduce smoking behaviours: an increase in excise duty and enforcement agencies. [Published on 16 December 2020]

YB Wong Chen took part in his second debate today, the Customs (Amendment) Bill 2020. He noted that customs officers will be given the same powers as police officers to conduct raids and arrest suspects. He asked the minister to explain the reasoning behind this bill amendment. [Published on 16 December 2020]

[Published on 12 November 2020]

I had a question today in Parliament, on the issue of domestic rubber supply and the government financial incentives to increase our domestic supply. The deputy minister gave an unsatisfactory reply on financial support, so in my follow up question I asked the minister to prepare a RM10 billion fund for replanting of rubber trees. You can watch the video of the question and answer here. The key issues are as follow: 1. 92% of the rubber supplied to Malaysian rubber gloves factories come from Thailand. Domestic supply is a miserable 8%. This is a very dangerous position to be in. 2. Thailand has announced a few months ago, that they will reduce the export of rubber latex to attract/force rubber gloves companies to relocate rubber glove factories to Thailand. 3. We have 1 million hectares of rubber trees. We have 18 million hectares of palm oil trees. In order to have a sustainable domestic supply of rubber latex and keep our rubber glove factories in Malaysia, we need domestic supply to reach at least 70%. 4. By my calculation we need to increase rubber trees from 1 million to 3 million hectares. We can reduce the palm oil hectarage from 18 million to 16 million and then replant 2 million hectares with rubber trees. 5. In order to do this, the government must incentivise estates to shift from palm oil to rubber. The incentive is to deploy soft replanting loans at 2% to 4% interest rates. 6. Planting cost of rubber trees for each hectare is around RM5,000. As such to replant 2 million hectares, the government must prepare and make available RM10 billion of soft replanting loans. 7. Failure to do so will see the closures of many rubber glove factories in Malaysia, as they migrate to Thailand to secure rubber latex supply. We have to act now and decisively or we will see this RM50 billion industry evaporate. Malaysia is great for starting businesses but we seem to have a big problem retaining these businesses. 8. The only slightly good news from this question and answer session, is the deputy minister agrees with my views and he said he will bring the matter up to the Minister of Finance. - Wong Chen, Facebook (8 December 2020)

Yesterday, YB Wong Chen delivered his reply to the King's Royal Address. He spoke about the government's fiscal response to Covid-19 (0:43), policies to fight corruption and malpractice (08:10), economic challenges (11:18), and Parliamentary reforms (18:20). In essence, YB Wong Chen has strongly urged the government to be more transparent and accountable in their approaches when tackling the pandemic. We hope that the respective ministers will provide a satisfactory reply to all the Members of Parliament and always act in the best interest of the rakyat and the nation. [Published on 21 July 2020]

This is the full video of my 20-minute budget 2020 speech yesterday in Parliament. [Published on 17 October 2019]