{"id":13898,"date":"2016-12-06T09:30:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T01:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=13898"},"modified":"2016-12-06T12:17:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T04:17:33","slug":"dato-sebastian-value-the-harmony-despite-different-ethnic-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=13898","title":{"rendered":"Dato Sebastian: value the harmony despite different ethnic groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The racial harmony practised by some 28 ethnic groups here makes the\u00a0resort city truly special and the best model for unity in the country,\u00a0said State Assemblyman for Piasau, Dato&#8217; Sebastian Ting.<\/p>\n<p>Officiating at Miri Special Affairs Department (Jasa) pre-Christmas\u00a0event organised in collaboration with Saberkas Pujut Branch at\u00a0Saberkas Commercial Centre yesterday, Ting said such uniqueness should\u00a0not be taken for granted and urged the people to further promote peace\u00a0and goodwill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMiri is a home for some 28 ethnic groups with different cultural\u00a0backgrounds. Thus we should, at all cost, safeguard the existing\u00a0racial unity and harmony from being jeopardised by negative elements,\u201d\u00a0he added.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor for Miri, Adam Yii was also at the function<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2016-12-05-PHOTO-00004226.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13899\" alt=\"2016-12-05-photo-00004226\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2016-12-05-PHOTO-00004226-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2016-12-05-PHOTO-00004226-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2016-12-05-PHOTO-00004226-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2016-12-05-PHOTO-00004226.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2016-12-05-PHOTO-00004227.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13900\" alt=\"2016-12-05-photo-00004227\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2016-12-05-PHOTO-00004227-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2016-12-05-PHOTO-00004227-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2016-12-05-PHOTO-00004227-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2016-12-05-PHOTO-00004227.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The racial harmony practised by some 28 ethnic groups here makes the\u00a0resort city truly special and the best model for unity in the country,\u00a0said State Assemblyman for Piasau, Dato&#8217; Sebastian Ting. Officiating at Miri Special Affairs Department (Jasa) pre-Christmas\u00a0event organised in collaboration with Saberkas Pujut Branch at\u00a0Saberkas Commercial Centre yesterday, Ting said such uniqueness should\u00a0not be taken for granted and urged the people to further promote peace\u00a0and goodwill. \u201cMiri is a home for some 28 ethnic groups with different cultural\u00a0backgrounds. Thus we should, at all cost, safeguard the existing\u00a0racial unity<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=13898\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13898"}],"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=13898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13901,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13898\/revisions\/13901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}