# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ong-ka-ting
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:04:24.308Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ong-ka-ting"
name: "Ong Ka Ting"
slug: "ong-ka-ting"
description: "Ong Ka Ting is a Malaysian politician. He was the former Housing and Local Government Minister from 1999 to 2008 and Acting Transport Minister from May to June 2003 in the Malaysian cabinet. Ong also served as the seventh president of the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), a major component party in Barisan Nasional (BN); from May 2003 to October 2008. He was appointed Special Envoy of Malaysia to China on 1 November 2011. He relinquished the Special Envoy's post on 31 December 2017 after serving three terms."
tagline: "Malaysian politician"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1956-11-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.4
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.374157333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%BB%84%E5%AE%B6%E5%AE%9A"
    title: "黄家定"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ong_Ka_Ting"
    title: "Ong Ka Ting"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ong_Ka_Ting"
    title: "Ong Ka Ting"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ong_Ka_Ting"
    title: "Ong Ka Ting"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ong_Ka_Ting"
    title: "Ong Ka Ting"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ong_Ka_Ting"
    title: "Ong Ka Ting"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ong_Ka_Ting"
    title: "Ong Ka Ting"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q716871"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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