{"id":30230,"date":"2022-03-21T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T07:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=30230"},"modified":"2022-03-26T15:16:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T07:16:01","slug":"supp-member-lai-huat-chois-demise-a-loss-to-the-party-said-deputy-premier-dato-sri-dr-sim-kui-hian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=30230","title":{"rendered":"SUPP member, Lai Huat Choi&#8217;s demise a loss to the party, said Deputy Premier, Dato Sri Dr Sim Kui Hian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Prof. Lai Huat Choi who graduated in PhD in Philosophy (Physical Chemistry) last month passed away  yesterday morning in Kuala Lumpur after a short sickness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SUPP Party President, Dato Sri Dr Sim Kui Hian said it was a shock to hear to hear of the passing of Lai who had done so much for the youth and the party. He said it is indeed a great loss to Sarawak for a fine young man who could contributed  more and touched more lives with his selfless contributions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lai was in Sarawak United Peoples&#8217; (SUPP) Education bureau where he helped students on education counseling services and related issues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unimas students too where Lai coached a number of them were devastated by his passing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A student, Olivia Trianna Nathan said Lai was one of the best teacher and described him as being very kind, humbled and committed to his works. &#8220;He never hesitated to respond to any questions from his students.  He is very dedicated and will be missed by many of his students,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another said he was always patient and would assist anyone who reached out to him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His last message to his students was to tell them that he was suffering from medical problems and his classes were all cancelled until further notice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his texted messages he stated: Good luck in your chemistry love story, remember not to show off, be humble, always work hard and never give up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to friends, Lai was devastated upon his mother&#8217;s passing before he got his PhD. He was said to be closed to both his parents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is survived by a brother in Singapore and a sister in KL. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LHC-769x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30233\" width=\"408\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LHC-769x1024.jpg 769w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LHC-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LHC-768x1023.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LHC.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FB_IMG_1647854856244.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30232\" width=\"408\" height=\"685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FB_IMG_1647854856244.jpg 511w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FB_IMG_1647854856244-179x300.jpg 179w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Lai Huat Choi who graduated in PhD in Philosophy (Physical Chemistry) last month passed away yesterday morning in Kuala Lumpur after a short sickness. SUPP Party President, Dato Sri Dr Sim Kui Hian said it was a shock to hear to hear of the passing of Lai who had done so much for the youth and the party. He said it is indeed a great loss to Sarawak for a fine young man who could contributed more and touched more lives with his selfless contributions. Lai was in Sarawak<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=30230\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30230"}],"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=30230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30235,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30230\/revisions\/30235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}