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Caption:1. Hello....Tiong King Sing (2nd right) while visiting a Beancurd stall.
2. Morning greet... two lady vegetable hawker while chatting  with Tiong King Sing (right).
3. Good day to you...Tiong King Sing (left) greeting a lady hawker.
4. Liew Ah Lek and Thomas Ng at the poultry centre pointing to the leakage part of the ceiling pipe.
 04/08/2001 : 
Bintulu, Saturday: Member of Parliament for Bintulu Dato' Seri Tiong King Sing said he would try his best to forward complaints  or constructive feedback of hawkers to authority concerned after his visit to Bintulu Hawker Centre (BHC) this morning.

He explained that it was never the government nor the authority concerned
intention to incur any inconveniences to hawkers, assuring them that their
complaints, discontentment, grouses would be fowarded via proper channel
respectively for solution.

After the inspection of hawker centre here, he disclosed that various
complaints or constructive feedback received by friendly hawkers here, such
as suggestion for more carpark lots, rotating hawker stalls concept and others.

Some of the native hawkers from negihbouring Tamu Market also wished that the authority concerned to install blinds as BHC, he said.

During a visit at poultry stall, Tiong was approached by a lady in her mid-40s
in tears, urging him to forward the problem of pipe leakage which she claimed had been neglected for the past five years.

Other hawkers of poultry stall also wished Tiong to assist in the application
of two units of exhausting fans to be installed to ventilate the humid and
stuffy air there.

On the other hand, Tiong also urged all the hawkers to be considerate and
responding to the calls of Bintulu Development Authority (BDA), not to
directly threw garbages or leftover of oily food to the basin, spillway or
other sanitation system.

He explained that the pipe system of the BHC had been reinstalled somewhere in 1999, thus he was surprised to receive various complaints of pipe or drainage failure two years later.

He also called on stall hawkers to abide by the instruction of authority
concerned, jointly contribute to a better, hygenic, tidy, cleanish enviroment.

Meanwhile, Tiong also nearly slid on a slippery floor after stumbling by a
halfly-covered grill of drainage during his visit to the fish market after
this morning.

As safety precaution, he also advised fish mongers to be co-operate as to
prevent the recurrence of similar incidents, especially to their valued
consumers.
 
Also present at the visit were the chairman of SNAP Kemena Liew Ah Lek,
Chairman of Kidurong Youth Wing Thomas Ng, Officer for Bintulu Chinese Affairs of MP Service Centre Ling Ah Ling, Officer in charge of people welfare Kong Kung Kwong and members of MP service centre.