{"id":87,"date":"2013-12-01T17:27:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T09:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=87"},"modified":"2013-12-01T17:36:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T09:36:34","slug":"launch-of-the-supp-news-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Launch of the SUPP News Portal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kuching: Sarawak United Peoples&#8217; Party (SUPP) Publicity Chief, Dato\u2019 Sebastian Ting introduced the SUPP News Portal (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.suppnewsportal.com<\/a>) to the Central Committee (CC) members today.<\/p>\n<p>Seventy-two of the CC members out of the 111 members attended the 4<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0meeting of the 24<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0SUPP Central Committee where during the lunch break, the SUPP News Portal was launched jointly by President Tan Sri Peter Chin, Deputy Minister, Dato\u2019 Sri Richard Riot, Secretary General, Dr. Sim Kui Hian, Treasurer Datuk David Teng and Ting himself.<\/p>\n<p>Introducing the News Portal, Ting said in the current development of online exposure, news portal is the way forward to publicise the party even though the party itself has a website.<\/p>\n<p>He said the News Portal aimed to be more with current, vibrant, and more interactive with the participation of all of the members.<\/p>\n<p>Ting said SUPP should follow current developments in the media world today &#8211; all mainstream news papers (e.g. Straits Times, Star, and Utusan) have moved online, and their readership is expanding.<\/p>\n<p>He cited an example where in the last general election,there was not enough publicity in both printed and alternative media to the people and to its own members too.<\/p>\n<p>Asking the Youth and Women section to play an active role in the News Portal, Ting said it was to let the public know what the party stand for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would like party branches to forward to HQ all its activities \u2013 let it be meetings, walkabout, meeting the public, organised functions, assistance given to public and members \u2013 and we will include these into the news portal,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_88\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/launch_of_SUPP_News_Portal.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88\" alt=\"Tan Sri Peter Chin(center) with Dr. Sim, Dato Sri Richard Riot, David Teng and Dato Sebastian Ting launching the SUPP News Portal at the CC meeting.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/launch_of_SUPP_News_Portal.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/launch_of_SUPP_News_Portal.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/launch_of_SUPP_News_Portal-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tan Sri Peter Chin(center) with Dr. Sim, Dato Sri Richard Riot, Datuk David Teng and Dato Sebastian Ting launching the SUPP News Portal at the CC meeting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kuching: Sarawak United Peoples&#8217; Party (SUPP) Publicity Chief, Dato\u2019 Sebastian Ting introduced the SUPP News Portal (www.suppnewsportal.com) to the Central Committee (CC) members today. Seventy-two of the CC members out of the 111 members attended the 4th\u00a0meeting of the 24th\u00a0SUPP Central Committee where during the lunch break, the SUPP News Portal was launched jointly by President Tan Sri Peter Chin, Deputy Minister, Dato\u2019 Sri Richard Riot, Secretary General, Dr. Sim Kui Hian, Treasurer Datuk David Teng and Ting himself. Introducing the News Portal, Ting said in the current development of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=87\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88,"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\/87"}],"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=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}