{"id":26679,"date":"2020-08-11T16:16:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T08:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=26679"},"modified":"2020-08-13T00:41:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T16:41:45","slug":"sarawak-flag-to-fly-high-on-mt-murut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=26679","title":{"rendered":"Sarawak flag to fly high on Mt Murut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sarawak Assistant Minister of Tourism, Arts&nbsp; and Culture, Datuk Sebastian Ting presented a Sarawak flag to the daughter of a mountain climber, Encik Sakia yesterday afternoon at SUPP Piasau branch to be placed on top of Mt. Murut.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ting who is State Assemblyman for Piasau said Mt. Murut&nbsp; at Ba&#8217;kelalan standing at&nbsp; 2,422 meters high (7,950 ft.) is the highest mountain in Sarawak.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said a friend of his who went up saod thry saw a flag from another state on the summit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It did not seems right so we need to put our own flag up there, he added. Sakai will volunteer to climb up the mountain which took two days.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ting added to go up, it took 4 to 5 hours at the base camp. And the next day, it will take another 4 to 5 hours to go up to the summit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Record showed that\u00a0 Dr. Eric Mjoberg, a Swedish geologist who worked as a curator in Sarawak Museum was the first person to climb up the mountain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"809\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG-20200811-WA0043.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26680\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG-20200811-WA0043.jpg 1080w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG-20200811-WA0043-768x575.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarawak Assistant Minister of Tourism, Arts&nbsp; and Culture, Datuk Sebastian Ting presented a Sarawak flag to the daughter of a mountain climber, Encik Sakia yesterday afternoon at SUPP Piasau branch to be placed on top of Mt. Murut.&nbsp; Ting who is State Assemblyman for Piasau said Mt. Murut&nbsp; at Ba&#8217;kelalan standing at&nbsp; 2,422 meters high (7,950 ft.) is the highest mountain in Sarawak.&nbsp; He said a friend of his who went up saod thry saw a flag from another state on the summit.&nbsp; It did not seems right so we<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=26679\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26680,"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\/26679"}],"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=26679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26681,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26679\/revisions\/26681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}