{"id":11734,"date":"2016-08-01T17:07:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T09:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=11734"},"modified":"2016-08-01T22:44:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T14:44:15","slug":"harmony-amidst-diversity-found-in-chinese-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=11734","title":{"rendered":"Harmony amidst diversity found in Chinese school."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a common knowledge that in Sarawak, Chinese schools have\u00a0a high percentage of Bumiputras, which creates a sense of harmony\u00a0among races, said Tan Kai, Political secretary to the CM.<\/p>\n<p>Tan Kai who was representing Senator Datuk Dr. Sim Kui Hian at the\u00a0earth breaking ceremony of a new school block yesterday at SJK\u00a0Chung Hua Sejijak added that even the Chief Minister, Datuk Patinggi Adenan\u00a0Satem had helped out a lot in the Chinese schools.<\/p>\n<p>It is a unique situation as these pupils are not only\u00a0learning Mandarin but also English and Bahasa Malaysia which would\u00a0help them a lot in their future. &#8220;Being bi-lingual has an\u00a0advantage in this multi racial country,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Tan Kai added that of the 107 pupils in the school, 38 percent are\u00a0Bumiputeras. He said the school need a new school block costing RM1.6\u00a0million. Although, he said, the amount seemed to be a staggering big\u00a0amount, Dr. Sim has already pledged to help them as they had asked for\u00a0RM500,000.<\/p>\n<p>He also thanked State Assemblyman for Tupoing, Fazzruddin Abdul Rahman\u00a0for pledging to help RM50,000. Also at the function was State\u00a0Assemblyman for Batu Kitang, Lo Khere Chiang.<\/p>\n<p>The school was built in 1939.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11735\" alt=\"image1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image11-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image11-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image11-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a common knowledge that in Sarawak, Chinese schools have\u00a0a high percentage of Bumiputras, which creates a sense of harmony\u00a0among races, said Tan Kai, Political secretary to the CM. Tan Kai who was representing Senator Datuk Dr. Sim Kui Hian at the\u00a0earth breaking ceremony of a new school block yesterday at SJK\u00a0Chung Hua Sejijak added that even the Chief Minister, Datuk Patinggi Adenan\u00a0Satem had helped out a lot in the Chinese schools. It is a unique situation as these pupils are not only\u00a0learning Mandarin but also English and Bahasa<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=11734\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11735,"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\/11734"}],"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=11734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11736,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11734\/revisions\/11736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}