Machap Baru
Encyclopedia
Machap Baru is a small town in Alor Gajah District
, Malacca
. This town is famous among Malaysian and Singaporean
tourists for its restaurants, which serve exotic game
, such as wild boar, deer
, monitor lizards and snakes. The restaurants are often under constant monitoring by the Malaysian Wildlife and National Parks Department for involvement in illegal trading of endangered species
.
State assemblyman for Machap, Machap Baru resident Datuk Wira Poh Ah Tiam
died on March 15, 2007. A by-election
to elect a successor was set for April 12, 2007. The Barisan Nasional
candidate, Lai Meng Chong
, of Malaysian Chinese Association
, won the by-election.
Alor Gajah
Alur Gajah is a town and district in Malacca, Malaysia. Alor Gajah is also a parliamentary constituency of Melaka. It borders Tampin, Negeri Sembilan to the north. This town has a railway station at Pulau Subang about 10 kilometres from the town area...
, Malacca
Malacca
Malacca , dubbed The Historic State or Negeri Bersejarah among locals) is the third smallest Malaysian state, after Perlis and Penang. It is located in the southern region of the Malay Peninsula, on the Straits of Malacca. It borders Negeri Sembilan to the north and the state of Johor to the south...
. This town is famous among Malaysian and Singaporean
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
tourists for its restaurants, which serve exotic game
Game (food)
Game is any animal hunted for food or not normally domesticated. Game animals are also hunted for sport.The type and range of animals hunted for food varies in different parts of the world. This will be influenced by climate, animal diversity, local taste and locally accepted view about what can or...
, such as wild boar, deer
Deer
Deer are the ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae. Species in the Cervidae family include white-tailed deer, elk, moose, red deer, reindeer, fallow deer, roe deer and chital. Male deer of all species and female reindeer grow and shed new antlers each year...
, monitor lizards and snakes. The restaurants are often under constant monitoring by the Malaysian Wildlife and National Parks Department for involvement in illegal trading of endangered species
Endangered species
An endangered species is a population of organisms which is at risk of becoming extinct because it is either few in numbers, or threatened by changing environmental or predation parameters...
.
State assemblyman for Machap, Machap Baru resident Datuk Wira Poh Ah Tiam
Poh Ah Tiam
Datuk Wira Poh Ah Tiam was a Malaysian politician, businessman and community leader of Chinese descent. Poh was born in Kampung Belimbing, near Durian Tunggal, Malacca...
died on March 15, 2007. A by-election
Machap by-election, 2007
The 2007 Machap by-election was held on April 12, 2007. The seat in the state assembly of Malacca, Malaysia, fell vacant after the incumbent, Datuk Wira Poh Ah Tiam of the Malaysian Chinese Association , died on 15 March that year. On March 21, 2007, the Election Commission of Malaysia announced...
to elect a successor was set for April 12, 2007. The Barisan Nasional
Barisan Nasional
Barisan Nasional is a major political coalition in Malaysia, formed in 1973 as the successor to the Alliance . Along with its predecessor, it has been Malaysia's federal ruling political force since independence...
candidate, Lai Meng Chong
Lai Meng Chong
Lai Meng Chong is a Malaysian politician of Chinese descent from the town of Machap Baru in Malacca state. He is a member of the Malaysian Chinese Association , a major component party of the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition and holds the position of vice-chairman in the MCA's Alor Gajah division...
, of Malaysian Chinese Association
Malaysian Chinese Association
Malaysian Chinese Association is a uni-racial political party in Malaysia that represents the Malaysian Chinese ethnicity; it is one of the three major component parties of the ruling coalition in Malaysia called the Barisan Nasional in Malay, or National Front in English.Along with the largest...
, won the by-election.