{"id":17472,"date":"2017-05-22T21:26:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T13:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=17472"},"modified":"2017-05-22T21:32:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T13:32:23","slug":"dr-sim-there-should-be-more-interpersonal-interaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=17472","title":{"rendered":"Dr Sim: there should be more interpersonal interaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local Government and Housing Minister Datuk Dr Sim Kui Hian hopes to see more interaction among the people rather than spending time on their mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p>He said \u00a0 the local community should learn to address human interaction than looking down on their mobile phones all the time.<\/p>\n<p>He said this at the groundbreaking ceremony for the RM5million academy of the Kuching Cheng Der Welfare Association in Rantau Panjang Keranji, Bau.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope the new academy will serve as an avenue for the people to cultivate inter-personal networking by putting down their handphones and practise rational thinking,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dr Sim, Sarawakians are fortunate that the state does not have an official religion, a status that guarantees freedom of religion. He said the people of Sarawak must continue to respect one another so as to preserve racial integration and social harmony in the state.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the academy Fong Kho Ming, said the project was expected to be completed in three years.<\/p>\n<p>He said the association and the academy is aimed at promoting Chinese culture among the locals, apart from promoting social harmony.<\/p>\n<p>Fong was confident that the academy, once completed, would provide an environment conducive to learning and self-cultivation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image139.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17473\" alt=\"image1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image139.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image139.jpg 960w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image139-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image223.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17474\" alt=\"image2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image223.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image223.jpg 960w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image223-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Government and Housing Minister Datuk Dr Sim Kui Hian hopes to see more interaction among the people rather than spending time on their mobile devices. He said \u00a0 the local community should learn to address human interaction than looking down on their mobile phones all the time. He said this at the groundbreaking ceremony for the RM5million academy of the Kuching Cheng Der Welfare Association in Rantau Panjang Keranji, Bau. \u201cI hope the new academy will serve as an avenue for the people to cultivate inter-personal networking by putting<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=17472\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17474,"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\/17472"}],"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=17472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17475,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17472\/revisions\/17475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}