Parliament: 3 new Senators appointed
By ZULKIFLI ABD RAHMAN
KUALA LUMPUR: The Dewan Negara witnessed the appointment of three new senators.
Muhammad Olian Abdullah, Datuk Paul Kong Sing Chu and S. Ramakrishnan were sworn in during a ceremony in front of Dewan Negara president Datuk Wong Foon Meng.
Datuk Maijol Mahap was re-appointed for a second term as Dewan Negara senator.
Muhammad Olian, 50, from Pahang, is a Bera Umno division committee member and has held various posts in Risda.
He is now the Temerloh branch manager of Risda Plantations Sdn Bhd.
Kong, 52, from Kota Kinabalu, is Sabah MCA state liaison deputy chairman since 2008.
He was the Penampang district council councillor from 2002 to 2005 and is now a member of the Board of Visitors of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kota Kinabalu.
Ramakrishnan joins his colleague from the DAP Tunku Abdul Aziz bin Tunku Ibrahim as the second DAP senator in the Upper House.
Ramakrishnan, 53, who has been a DAP member for nine years, is a lecturer at the Metropolitan College.
An accountant by training, he has presented research papers in finance in Bangkok, Australia and other countries.