{"id":11810,"date":"2016-08-04T12:54:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T04:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=11810"},"modified":"2016-08-04T15:04:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T07:04:37","slug":"appointment-of-mbks-councillors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=11810","title":{"rendered":"Appointment of MBKS Councillors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for Local government, Senator Datuk Dr. Sim Kui Hian yesterday witnessed the\u00a0swearing in of the deputy mayor, Hilmy Othman, and 30 other\u00a0councillors of the Kuching South City Council (MBKS) held at the 5th floor of the MBKS building.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sim urged the councillors to work together for the people of Kuching as they\u00a0are the front liners of the council.<\/p>\n<p>He said they must be well versed with the council issues like\u00a0 rubbish collection, grass\u00a0cutting, drainage clog, street lights and also potholes and many\u00a0more,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Ten of the councillors were re-appointed \u2013 five from Parti Bumiputra\u00a0Bersatu (PBB),two from United People\u2019s Party (UPP) , two from Parti\u00a0Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) and one from Sarawak United People\u2019s Party\u00a0(SUPP). The rest are new faces.<\/p>\n<p>The 13 councillors from SUPP are Bong Lian Huan, Phillip Liaw Kian\u00a0Sin, Chai Kueh Khun, Kho Teck Wan, Lu Cho Heng, Ong Chee Chiang, Lim\u00a0Swee Chiaw, Jong Yean Pin, Mok Chuang Ping, Goh Tze Hui\u00a0(re-appointed), Patrick Gordon Song, Lau Sie Tung and Katherine Voon\u00a0Yian Wei.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image112.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11811\" alt=\"image1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image112-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image112-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image112-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image112.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image25.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11812\" alt=\"image2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image25-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image25-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image25-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image25.jpg 1137w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for Local government, Senator Datuk Dr. Sim Kui Hian yesterday witnessed the\u00a0swearing in of the deputy mayor, Hilmy Othman, and 30 other\u00a0councillors of the Kuching South City Council (MBKS) held at the 5th floor of the MBKS building. Dr Sim urged the councillors to work together for the people of Kuching as they\u00a0are the front liners of the council. He said they must be well versed with the council issues like\u00a0 rubbish collection, grass\u00a0cutting, drainage clog, street lights and also potholes and many\u00a0more,\u201d he added. Ten of the councillors<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=11810\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11811,"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\/11810"}],"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=11810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11813,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11810\/revisions\/11813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}