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Wong Fort Pin

Malaysian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ97482719
Source-derived summary

Wong Fort Pin (Chinese: 黃和平; Jyutping: Wong4 Wo4 Ping4; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: N̂g Hô-pêng; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Vòng Fò-phìn; born 15 June 1955) is a Malaysian politician and medical doctor who served as Deputy Speaker of the Melaka State Legislative Assembly from July 2018 to May 2020 and Member of the Melaka Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Bemban from May 2018 to November 2021. He is a member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition.

Background

Wong grew up in Nyalas and Bukit Baru, Malacca. He studied in Ping Ming Primary Chinese School, St. David's High School, High School Malacca, and Kaohsiung Medical College, Taiwan. He obtained DRM, Diploma in Reproductive Medicine from Academy of Family Physicians of Malaysia. Active in athletic events, a scout and a prefect in school.

He have his own Medical GP clinic in Bukit Baru. Begun to get involve in Addiction Medicine since 2004.

Politics

On 17 September 2015, Wong who is a doctor and also the Bukit Palah DAP branch chairman then, successfully sued fellow DAP state leaders in conflict, Sim Tong Him and Goh Leong San for defamation because of libelous media statements they have issued which implicate him in outraging the modesty of his patients and also accused his sibling of being involved in illegal activities.

Editorial summary

“Wong Fort Pin” enters the record as malaysian politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Wong, Fort and Malaysian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1955, 2018, 2020, 2021—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1955-06-15. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Wong, Fort and Malaysian.
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Why this record matters

“Wong Fort Pin” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Wong, Fort and Malaysian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q97482719. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1955, 2018, 2020 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from Wong Fort Pin” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.