{"id":23188,"date":"2018-11-02T23:13:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T15:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=23188"},"modified":"2018-11-03T06:54:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T22:54:03","slug":"a-budget-that-is-not-attractive-said-mpp-chairman-lo-khere-chiang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=23188","title":{"rendered":"A Budget that is not attractive, said MPP Chairman, Lo Khere Chiang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">State Assemblyman for Batu Kitang, Lo Khere Chiang who is also MPP Chairman considered Budget 2019 as a\u00a0stable to moderate GDP and economic numbers but felt that the Federal government Fiscal revenue has been represented as a tight one.<\/p>\n<p>Expressing dismay that Sarawak has not much benefit from the Budget, Lo pointed out that there is not much done to boost the national development which is not good for the country\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>Sarawak contributed 30 percent of the total oil and gas revenue for Malaysia and in this Budget, they failed us again. This goes to show how much the new Government leave Sarawak aside after all the talks of giving back Sarawak\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that there is a budget for Khazanah Nasional Bhd to develop aerial space industry and there was no mention of the amount.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Lo believed that dabbling with aerial space\u00a0 industrial could go into billions of ringgit. He said he failed to understand that the new government claimed the country owes so much debts and have limited funds for Sarawak despite taking so\u00a0 much of our oil and gas. I find it such a wastage and if there is no money, PH government should not be playing with aeroplanes, he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23189\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23189\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/PHOTO-2018-10-08-14-42-38.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23189\" alt=\"Lo Khere Chiang \" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/PHOTO-2018-10-08-14-42-38-300x277.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/PHOTO-2018-10-08-14-42-38-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/PHOTO-2018-10-08-14-42-38-1024x948.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/PHOTO-2018-10-08-14-42-38.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lo Khere Chiang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Assemblyman for Batu Kitang, Lo Khere Chiang who is also MPP Chairman considered Budget 2019 as a\u00a0stable to moderate GDP and economic numbers but felt that the Federal government Fiscal revenue has been represented as a tight one. Expressing dismay that Sarawak has not much benefit from the Budget, Lo pointed out that there is not much done to boost the national development which is not good for the country\u2019s economy. Sarawak contributed 30 percent of the total oil and gas revenue for Malaysia and in this Budget, they<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=23188\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23189,"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\/23188"}],"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=23188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23190,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23188\/revisions\/23190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}