Political Involvement
Liow officially joined the Malaysian Chinese Association in 1981. Soon after graduating from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in 1986, he joined MCA as a research assistant with a monthly salary of RM700. He became press secretary and later political secretary to former MCA deputy president Lim Ah Lek from 1989 to 1999. After two decades of steady rise in the party, he was elected as MCA Youth chief in 2005 and was elected as a vice president in 2008.
Liow is also Bentong Member of Parliament, having held the parliamentary seat since 1999. In 2006, he was appointed Deputy Youth and Sports Minister in a Cabinet reshuffle. Following the 2008 general elections, Liow became Minister of Health under prime minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. He remained in this position after Najib Tun Razak assumed the premiership in April 2009.
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