{"id":21840,"date":"2018-05-03T17:14:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T09:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=21840"},"modified":"2018-05-03T22:15:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T14:15:38","slug":"dr-sim-only-barisan-will-consider-interest-of-sarawak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=21840","title":{"rendered":"Dr Sim: only Barisan will consider interest of Sarawak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\u200bCandidate for\u00a0 Stampin, Datuk Dr. Sim Kui Hian who is also the Minister for Local government and Housing, said the state\u00a0Barisan Nasional (BN) dares to say \u2018no\u2019 to BN bigwig Umno because Sarawak\u2019s interest comes first\u200b.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u200bThe\u200b\u00a0state BN will\u00a0always protect\u00a0Sarawak\u2019s rights\u00a0as the state coalition has always been firm in the stand against BN bigwig Umno if it concerns the interest of the state.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He said the \u200bSyariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act 1965 (RUU355)\u00a0is a good\u00a0example, saying that \u201cwhen a Private Member\u2019s Bill to amend RUU355 was presented to the Parliament in November 2016 by PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang,\u00a0\u200bwe in the\u00a0state BN strongly objected to the Bill\u200b.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\u200bThe\u00a0Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister meeting BN Sarawak (MPs) multiple times\u00a0and we\u00a0still\u00a0say \u200bno.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Dr Sim added that \u200bout that the state BN\u2019s firm stance in protecting the state was very much unlike the Opposition, particularly DAP, which has yet to prove that they will protect Sarawak\u2019s rights.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/31668189_10155485918963133_1383783057693081600_n-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21841\" alt=\"31668189_10155485918963133_1383783057693081600_n (1)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/31668189_10155485918963133_1383783057693081600_n-1-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/31668189_10155485918963133_1383783057693081600_n-1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/31668189_10155485918963133_1383783057693081600_n-1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCandidate for\u00a0 Stampin, Datuk Dr. Sim Kui Hian who is also the Minister for Local government and Housing, said the state\u00a0Barisan Nasional (BN) dares to say \u2018no\u2019 to BN bigwig Umno because Sarawak\u2019s interest comes first\u200b. \u200bThe\u200b\u00a0state BN will\u00a0always protect\u00a0Sarawak\u2019s rights\u00a0as the state coalition has always been firm in the stand against BN bigwig Umno if it concerns the interest of the state. He said the \u200bSyariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act 1965 (RUU355)\u00a0is a good\u00a0example, saying that \u201cwhen a Private Member\u2019s Bill to amend RUU355 was presented to the Parliament<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=21840\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21841,"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\/21840"}],"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=21840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21842,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21840\/revisions\/21842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}