{"id":17253,"date":"2017-05-11T19:34:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T11:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=17253"},"modified":"2017-05-11T20:19:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T12:19:55","slug":"official-opening-of-the-state-legislative-assembly-dun-sitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=17253","title":{"rendered":"Official opening of the State Legislative Assembly (DUN) sitting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The official opening of the eight-day State Legislative Assembly (DUN) sitting was held today.<\/p>\n<p>Head of State Tun Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud and wife Toh Puan Datuk Patinggi Raghad Kurdi Taib arrived at the Parade Square, DUN Complex shortly after\u00a010am, followed by the playing of the national anthem.<\/p>\n<p>Their arrival, which was scheduled for\u00a09.30am, was delayed due to the downpour.<\/p>\n<p>Taib then inspected the Guard of Honour comprising 105 officers from the 11th Battalion General Operations Force (GOF) at the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The sitting\u00a0from today until May 22,\u00a0will be attended by members of the august House from across the state.<\/p>\n<p>Eight motions have been filed by six elected representatives and are expected be tabled, along with a total of 411 questions seeking 336 oral replies and 70 written replies which will be presented during the sitting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/unnamed-14.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17254\" alt=\"unnamed (1)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/unnamed-14.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/unnamed-14.jpg 960w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/unnamed-14-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/unnamed-23.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17255\" alt=\"unnamed (2)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/unnamed-23.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/unnamed-23.jpg 960w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/unnamed-23-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/unnamed-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17256\" alt=\"unnamed (3)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/unnamed-3.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/unnamed-3.jpg 960w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/unnamed-3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/unnamed8.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17257\" alt=\"unnamed\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/unnamed8.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/unnamed8.jpg 960w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/unnamed8-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official opening of the eight-day State Legislative Assembly (DUN) sitting was held today. Head of State Tun Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud and wife Toh Puan Datuk Patinggi Raghad Kurdi Taib arrived at the Parade Square, DUN Complex shortly after\u00a010am, followed by the playing of the national anthem. Their arrival, which was scheduled for\u00a09.30am, was delayed due to the downpour. Taib then inspected the Guard of Honour comprising 105 officers from the 11th Battalion General Operations Force (GOF) at the ceremony. The sitting\u00a0from today until May 22,\u00a0will be attended<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=17253\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17254,"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\/17253"}],"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=17253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17258,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17253\/revisions\/17258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}