{"id":23826,"date":"2019-01-23T19:57:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T11:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=23826"},"modified":"2019-01-23T20:52:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T12:52:20","slug":"kho-look-at-the-spirit-of-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=23826","title":{"rendered":"Kho: Look at the spirit of sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SUPP Woman Chief, Kho Teck Wan acknowledges that Malaysia is a Muslim country and respect its immigration right. \u00a0However, in Sarawak we have our own immigration autonomy, we are proud of our social harmony and acceptance of others, therefore we shall look beyond politics and religion and let the true spirit of sports prevail.\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Kho in response to the Malaysia\u2019s decision to impose a blanket ban on all Israelis athletes from participating in the upcoming World Para Swimming Championship said\u00a0Sarawak as an equal partner in Malaysia has immigration autonomy through Annex E of the Malaysia Agreement 1963.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, she urged Sarawak government to assert its immigration right to allow the Israeli swimmers to participate in the championships, which will be held in Kuching Sarawak\u00a0from July 29<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0to August 4<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInternational Paralympic Committee was quoted by AFP as being disappointed at Malaysia\u2019s Federal Government\u2019s decision to ban the Israeli athletes from entering the country. The UK Labour Party\u2019s leaders at their House of Common had called the British Government to oppose Malaysia\u2019s decision, and suggested that the championship venue be relocated. With the current development, it may cause Sarawak to lost its host position.\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy allowing the Israel athletes to enter Sarawak, Bumi Kenyalang will be seen as the land who is friendly toward the international community. Since 2019 is also the \u201cVisit Sarawak Year\u201d, the move will certainly help promote Sarawak\u2019s tourism industry.I call upon my fellow Gabungan Parti Sarawak\u2019s leaders and comrades to look beyond politics and religion in this matter. Let\u2019s welcome all athletes to Sarawak and uphold the spirit of true Olympics which aims to promote mutual understanding, friendship, solidarity and fair play.\u201d Kho urged.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23827\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23827\" style=\"width: 255px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/unnamed11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23827\" alt=\"Kho\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/unnamed11-255x300.jpg\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/unnamed11-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/unnamed11-870x1024.jpg 870w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23827\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kho<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUPP Woman Chief, Kho Teck Wan acknowledges that Malaysia is a Muslim country and respect its immigration right. \u00a0However, in Sarawak we have our own immigration autonomy, we are proud of our social harmony and acceptance of others, therefore we shall look beyond politics and religion and let the true spirit of sports prevail.\u201d she said. Kho in response to the Malaysia\u2019s decision to impose a blanket ban on all Israelis athletes from participating in the upcoming World Para Swimming Championship said\u00a0Sarawak as an equal partner in Malaysia has immigration<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=23826\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23827,"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\/23826"}],"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=23826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23828,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23826\/revisions\/23828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}