{"id":13585,"date":"2016-11-12T16:09:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T08:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=13585"},"modified":"2016-11-12T23:59:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T15:59:00","slug":"samarahan-district-council-sdc-elevated-into-a-municipal-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=13585","title":{"rendered":"Samarahan District Council (SDC) elevated into a Municipal Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Samarahan District Council (SDC) has been elevated into a Municipal Council, announced the Minister of Local Government Datuk Dr Sim Kui Hian, because it had all\u00a0the ingredients needed to be upgraded.<\/p>\n<p>Kota Samarahan actually represented many opportunities for the\u00a0local government to do something it could be proud of.<\/p>\n<p>This is the place of a blue ocean economy because of its status as a hub for higher\u00a0education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are over 17,000 students and over 2,000 lecturers in Universiti\u00a0Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) and over 10,000 students and lecturers in\u00a0Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a university town and therefore there is a university\u00a0economics with the more than 30,000 students within its jurisdiction,\u201d\u00a0he said at the launch of Kota Samarahan Municipal Council (KSMC) in\u00a0Kota Samarahan recently.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the two universities, Dr Sim said Kota Samarahan also had\u00a0Intan and the Institut Pendidikan Guru Tun Abdul Razak Campus, among\u00a0others, in the municipality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image113.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13586\" alt=\"image1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image113-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image113-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image113.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image211.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13587\" alt=\"image2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image211-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image211-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image211.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image211.jpg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image39.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13588\" alt=\"image3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image39-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image39-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image39.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Samarahan District Council (SDC) has been elevated into a Municipal Council, announced the Minister of Local Government Datuk Dr Sim Kui Hian, because it had all\u00a0the ingredients needed to be upgraded. Kota Samarahan actually represented many opportunities for the\u00a0local government to do something it could be proud of. This is the place of a blue ocean economy because of its status as a hub for higher\u00a0education. \u201cThere are over 17,000 students and over 2,000 lecturers in Universiti\u00a0Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) and over 10,000 students and lecturers in\u00a0Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM).<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=13585\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13587,"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\/13585"}],"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=13585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13589,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13585\/revisions\/13589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}