page_title: Tony Pua
section_title: Policies
hierarchical_section_title: Tony Pua / Policies
caption_attribution_description: English: YB Tony Pua with the team of Trader Malaysia, signed at PJ Startup Festival
context_page_description: Tony Pua Kiam Wee is a Malaysian politician from the Democratic Action Party currently serving as three-term Member of Parliament of Malaysia representing Damansara and Political Secretary to the Minister of Finance of Malaysia, Lim Guan Eng. Pua is the former Malaysian CEO of Cyber Village Sdn Bhd, a SESDAQ-listed company. In early 2007, he disposed of all his interests in the company and tendered his resignation to join the DAP in 2008.
  Pua graduated from Keble College, Oxford with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics under a scholarship from the MTC Foundation in 1994. Before that, he received Asean and Shaw Foundation scholarships to pursue his O- and A-Levels in Raffles Institution and Raffles Junior College, in Singapore.
  In the 2008 Malaysian general election, Pua won the parliamentary constituency of Petaling Jaya Utara on a DAP ticket. He ran against the incumbent, Chew Mei Fun, then Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development, and Deputy Women Chief of the Malaysian Chinese Association. In 2009, Pua was appointed the DAP member of the Pakatan Rakyat committee.
context_section_description: In 2012, Pua suggested that the Bumiputera discount for housing and real estate must be abolished for houses above RM500,000. He disagreed with giving discounts on expensive houses such as those priced at or above RM 1 million.
  In one of his statements,  Pua said the government should reduce the number of civil servants. His idea was rejected by PKR leader Anwar Ibrahim as impractical. Pua said he wants to make the government sector become more efficient and less costly.
  Pua was invited by the organizers of the recent startup acceleration program held at Dewan Sivik.
caption: YB Pua with the team of Trader Malaysia, signed at PJ Startup Festival
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