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More than 90% cannot afford to purchase homes for themselves - PKR Sabah Roland Chia

PKR National Supreme Council member cum PKR Sabah Secretary – Dr Roland Chia  is very  concern with the recent online survey conducted in Feb 2013 by a reputable property group – which indicated that an extremely high number of Malaysians find houses beyond their reach. The online poll is indeed an alarming figure given the fact that our country Malaysia is a resource rich country with oil, gas, palm oil & vast parcel of land with only a population of 28 million citizens.

The online survey poll indicated that 90% are saying that the current property prices are unaffordable. 69% of respondent polled were calling for more affordable housing – which is a great concern for house buyers. While 16% has appeared to have given up on looking for homes as their house prices is beyond their purchasing capabilities. There is a indication that property prices rises faster than the income of house buyers.

Dr Roland Chia was very concern because more than 60% of those polled in the survey falls into the lower middle income and middle income group that has annual income of RM30,000 – RM80,000. If this situation were to worsen- then there will be a “middle income trap” whereby the wages of the middle income group will not be able to finance basic necessities like housing - the first home for themselves or even their childrens’ education. 

When we compare our GDP per capita with other countries,South Korea’s GDP per capita is US$16,450, Singapore US$34,346, Hong Kong US$29,559, while Malaysia is still at US$7,469. It must be remembered that in the early 1970s, we were at parity with these countries. In five years’ time they would be even further ahead. The rakyat must resolve to do much soul searching- what is the reason for the disparity of GDP per capita after 50 years of independence in this forthcoming 13th Edition of General Election in Sabah & Malaysia.

Poor Trunks roads linking to palm oil plantations in KK- Sandakan- Tawau- Interior -Sabah hampering the palm oil industry.

PKR National Supreme Council Member cum PKR SABAH secretary Dr Roland Chia Ming Shen has received many complaints from OIL PALM plantation owners in Sabah facing increasing cost of doing business due to the slow trunk road upgrade between major towns. Many have suffered from slow transport of oil palms to the ports for shipments to harvest fruit bunches for almost a decade.

The government should speed up upgrading of trunk roads here to handle heavy loads of produce. We now face congestion problems," lamented one palm oil planter based in Sandakan during the meeting with Dr Roland Chia PKR Sabah Secretary. Dr Roland Chia reminded the authorities that – do not forget that Sabah produces about a third of Malaysia's palm oil exports. The trunk roads linking Kota Kinabalu, Sandakan, Lahad Datu and Tawau are congested.

The road system is bad, it needs to be upgraded," Oil palm plantation owners in Sabah pay cess to the Malaysian Palm Oil Board, income and corporate tax to the Finance Ministry &7.5 per cent sales tax to Sabah government which amount to about RM1 Billion annually. The palm oil planters in Sabah & Malaysia pay so much tax to the government, (but) what do they (we) get in return? We hear announcements that hundreds of million ringgit had been allocated to build and upgrade roads here but ... until today, implementation remains to be seen," lamented by one of the planters.

According to Dr Roland Chia, in 2010,the Rural and Regional Development Ministry had promised that it will spend about RM2.1 billion to provide rural basic infrastructures in Sabah and Sarawak under the National Key Result Areas (NKRA) this year. The ministry had said the allocation also involved the completion of 2009 projects to build new roads and provide water and electricity supply. Of the total, about RM928 million would be allocated to Sabah.

For NKRA's rural road projects, Sabah was allocated RM134.9 million to complete 40 of last year's projects and another RM56.8 million to implement 36 new roads. Now is 2013, the trunk roads are still in the state of dire straits where chronic road congestions occurring involving private , commercial vehicles travelling from the west coast to east coast of Sabah. There are already economic loss,

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My Profile

Dr Roland Chia Ming Shen is dental surgeon by profession.A native Sabahan, Malaysian

Political Involvement

Currently, Dr. Roland Chia is the elected supreme council member of the National People Justise Party, Malaysia, (Parti Keadilan Rakyat). He is also the State Secretary of the State People Justise Party - PKR Sabah.

Educational Background

He graduated with a Bachelor Of Dental Surgery (BDS) from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom in  1993.

He served as a community Dental Officer in Queen Elizabeth Hospital, in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah from 1994-1995 before returning to United Kingdom for a short stint of Private Practice in Glasgow & Gourock, Scotland.

He has obtained hid Diploma in Higher Education in Theology from Glasgow Bible College, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1996 before returning back to Malaysia to commence his private dental practice in Penampang, Sabah.

In 2006, he was conferred the Fellowship of International College of Implantology (FICOI) during the World International Congress of Implantology in Taiwan and also the certificate in Implantology by the University of Berne, Switzerland.

During his university days, he was the Vise President of the Newcastle Malaysian Student Society (1991-1992) and the Student leader cum Council Member of the Newcastle Overseas Christian Church (1991-1993).

For his contribution to Dental Profession

In January 2009, he was conferred the Fellowship of International College of Dentistry (FICD).

In June  2010, he was conferred the Fellowship of International College of Continue Dental Education in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

For His Contribution to the Community

In August 2009, he was awarded rhe Sabah Most Outstanding Young person Award by the Jaycees International in the category of Community & Humanitarian Services.

For His Contribution to the Business Community

Dr. Roland Chia was the Executive Chairman of a Private Hospital in Sabah from 2007-2009

Dr. Roland Chia currently also sits as a director in various private limited companies having interests in healthcare managements and services.