{"id":10698,"date":"2016-05-28T17:55:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T09:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=10698"},"modified":"2016-05-28T18:09:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T10:09:04","slug":"plan-to-amend-municipal-council-mpp-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=10698","title":{"rendered":"Plan to amend Municipal Council (MPP) laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Local Government Senator Datuk Dr Sim Kui Hian has proposed to amend the laws of \u00a0 Municipal Council (MPP) to enable it to employ traffic wardens in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Som said the ministry is concerned about traffic congestion in the council\u2019s area of jurisdiction, especially Batu Kawa.<\/p>\n<p>The amendment,he said would enable the council to put traffic wardens in congested\u00a0areas to assist traffic police.<\/p>\n<p>Padawan police chief Superintendent Choo Yin Kok, welcomed the good news as he is short of manpower.<\/p>\n<p>Also present was MPP chairman cum Batu Kitang assemblyman Lo Khere\u00a0Chiang and Sarawak United People\u2019s Party (SUPP) Batu Kawa chairman.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/unnamed9.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10699\" alt=\"unnamed\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/unnamed9-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/unnamed9-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/unnamed9-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/unnamed9.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Local Government Senator Datuk Dr Sim Kui Hian has proposed to amend the laws of \u00a0 Municipal Council (MPP) to enable it to employ traffic wardens in the future. Dr Som said the ministry is concerned about traffic congestion in the council\u2019s area of jurisdiction, especially Batu Kawa. The amendment,he said would enable the council to put traffic wardens in congested\u00a0areas to assist traffic police. Padawan police chief Superintendent Choo Yin Kok, welcomed the good news as he is short of manpower. Also present was MPP chairman<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=10698\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10698"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10700,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10698\/revisions\/10700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}