{"id":13155,"date":"2016-10-24T12:11:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T04:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=13155"},"modified":"2016-10-24T17:24:57","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T09:24:57","slug":"lo-fishing-is-a-healthy-past-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=13155","title":{"rendered":"Lo: fishing is a healthy past time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Batu Kitang state Assemblyman, Lo Khere Chiang urged kampung folks to\u00a0engage more into healthy sports activities than being on the handphone\u00a0all the time.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the prawn fishing competition held in conjunction with the\u00a0National Sports Day 2016, Lo said fishing is an art\u00a0besides being a hobby. &#8220;It can be an exciting sport for some people\u00a0who get thrills out of catching something,&#8221; he said to kampung folks\u00a0who gathered at the river banks of Kampung Sandong. Fishing, he said,\u00a0can be enjoyed by both the young and old.<\/p>\n<p>Lo who is also the Chairman of Padawan Municipal council said fishing\u00a0can also bring in tourism as what most of the nearby countries like\u00a0Singaporeans gathered to charter boats for sea fishing. He also\u00a0hoped that fishing can be gazetted to be a sporting event one day.<\/p>\n<p>The National Sports Day is an important event where the government\u00a0make efforts to encourage people to be involved in sports activities.\u00a0This is, he said, one of the ways to foster greater relationship among\u00a0the people and to adopt a healthy lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-10-23-PHOTO-00000002.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13156\" alt=\"2016-10-23-photo-00000002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-10-23-PHOTO-00000002-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-10-23-PHOTO-00000002-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-10-23-PHOTO-00000002-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-10-23-PHOTO-00000002.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-10-23-PHOTO-00000004.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13157\" alt=\"2016-10-23-photo-00000004\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-10-23-PHOTO-00000004-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-10-23-PHOTO-00000004-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-10-23-PHOTO-00000004-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-10-23-PHOTO-00000004.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Batu Kitang state Assemblyman, Lo Khere Chiang urged kampung folks to\u00a0engage more into healthy sports activities than being on the handphone\u00a0all the time. Speaking at the prawn fishing competition held in conjunction with the\u00a0National Sports Day 2016, Lo said fishing is an art\u00a0besides being a hobby. &#8220;It can be an exciting sport for some people\u00a0who get thrills out of catching something,&#8221; he said to kampung folks\u00a0who gathered at the river banks of Kampung Sandong. Fishing, he said,\u00a0can be enjoyed by both the young and old. Lo who is also the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=13155\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13158,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155\/revisions\/13158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}