{"id":10869,"date":"2016-06-05T23:40:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T15:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=10869"},"modified":"2016-06-06T10:10:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T02:10:24","slug":"dr-sim-lion-dance-should-go-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=10869","title":{"rendered":"Dr Sim: lion dance should go international"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local Government Minister Datuk Dr Sim Kui Hian said the lion dance\u00a0troupes in Sarawak should aim for international recognition instead of being contented locally.<\/p>\n<p>A lion dance performance is something where teamwork is important,\u201d he said at the launch of the Sarawak Southern Traditional Lion Dance Championship 2016 at Vivacity Megamall.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sim, who is also Sarawak United People\u2019s Party (SUPP) president, said he was glad that the lion dance is participated by all races, showing a united Sarawak.<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen teams from around Sarawak competed for the championship.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/unnamed3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10870\" alt=\"unnamed\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/unnamed3-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/unnamed3-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/unnamed3-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/unnamed3.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Government Minister Datuk Dr Sim Kui Hian said the lion dance\u00a0troupes in Sarawak should aim for international recognition instead of being contented locally. A lion dance performance is something where teamwork is important,\u201d he said at the launch of the Sarawak Southern Traditional Lion Dance Championship 2016 at Vivacity Megamall. Dr Sim, who is also Sarawak United People\u2019s Party (SUPP) president, said he was glad that the lion dance is participated by all races, showing a united Sarawak. Sixteen teams from around Sarawak competed for the championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10870,"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\/10869"}],"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=10869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10871,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10869\/revisions\/10871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}