# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chan-kong-choy
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:50:27.038Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chan-kong-choy"
name: "Chan Kong Choy"
slug: "chan-kong-choy"
description: "Chan Kong Choy is a businessman leading two publicly listed companies in the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) as Executive Chairman. Further to that, he is also an adjunct professor at the University of Malaya and more than 15 years ago, he was a Malaysian politician who has never lost a general election in his two decade political career. He was the former deputy president of the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), a component party of the then-ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition formerly Minister of Transport from 1 July 2003 to 18 March 2008."
tagline: "Malaysian politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chan_Kong_Choy_-_2004_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1955-05-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.17
  momentum:             6.367924528301886
  historical:           4.82646
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%86%D8%BA_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%8A"
    title: "تشان هونغ تشوي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_Kong_Choy"
    title: "Chan Kong Choy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_Kong_Choy"
    title: "Chan Kong Choy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_Kong_Choy"
    title: "Chan Kong Choy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%88%E5%B9%BF%E6%89%8D"
    title: "陈广才"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5070330"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump