{"id":83681,"date":"2020-06-24T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T06:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sacredheart.com.my\/main\/?p=83681"},"modified":"2020-06-30T16:43:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T08:43:31","slug":"laus-senator-appointment-a-boon-for-sibu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sacredheart.com.my\/main\/2020\/06\/24\/laus-senator-appointment-a-boon-for-sibu\/","title":{"rendered":"Lau\u2019s senator appointment a boon for Sibu"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The appointment of Sibu Rural District Council (SRDC) deputy chairman Robert Lau as a senator is lauded by many folk here as it signifies the need for Sibu to have representation in the Upper House.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/1″][vc_column_text text_lead=”yes”]<\/p>\n

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Sacred Heart Old Students Association (Shosa) president Yong King Sung regarded Lau as \u2018most deserving of this appointment\u2019.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

However, he acknowledged that such honour came together with huge responsibilities.<\/p>\n

\u201c(Lau) must keep up the good work for the Sibu communities,\u201d added Yong.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/1″][vc_column_text text_lead=”yes”]<\/p>\n

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SHOSA Past President Hii Chang Kee (Class ’85)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

In congratulating Lau on his appointment, the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture permanent secretary Hii Chang Kee regarded the senatorship as marking a key milestone in Lau\u2019s years of dedication in serving the local communities through the SRDC and Sibu Municipal Council (SMC), as well as political, social and sports associations.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving worked closely with him in the SMC and his involvement in sports and Sarawak Convention Bureau, I have full confidence that Robert would do his best in initiating changes for the betterment of Sarawakians in general \u2013 and the Sibu communities, in particular.<\/p>\n

\u201cRobert is known for his passion in speaking out about MA63 (Malaysia Agreement 1963) and the rights of Sarawak in the Federation of Malaysia; we hope that he could now do this more effectively as a senator,\u201d Hii pointed out.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/1″][vc_column_text text_lead=”yes”]<\/p>\n

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Sempurai Petrus Ngelai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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SRDC chairman Sempurai Petrus Ngelai is confident that Lau, 55, would bring forth more ideas and key issues to the Senate.<\/p>\n

He also believed that Lau being a lawyer by profession, would perform well as a member of Dewan Negara.<\/p>\n

\u201cPersonally, I have known Senator Robert Lau, since I started practising as a lawyer. Those days, he was a very active sportsman \u2013 always representing the Sibu Advocates Association and Sarawak Advocates Association in the \u2018Bar Games\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a person, he\u2019s very easy to talk with and approachable. I believe with his ideas and plans for Sibu, he would bring those ideas to the Upper House and speak out for Sibu, in particular.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSibu needs development and job opportunities for the youngsters. We don\u2019t want our youths to migrate away from Sibu, as we would lose these talents,\u201d he said yesterday.<\/p>\n

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Lau was among the three Sarawakians who were sworn in as senators before Senate president Tan Sri SA Vigneswaran in Dewan Negara on Monday.<\/p>\n

The other two Sarawakians are Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) Women honorary secretary Susan Chemerai Anding, and Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) deputy secretary-general Rita Sarimah Patrick Insol.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The appointment of Sibu Rural District Council (SRDC) deputy chairman Robert Lau as a senator is lauded by many folk here as it signifies the need for Sibu to have representation in the Upper House. – The Borneo post Online<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happenings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacredheart.com.my\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacredheart.com.my\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacredheart.com.my\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacredheart.com.my\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacredheart.com.my\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83681"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sacredheart.com.my\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83717,"href":"https:\/\/sacredheart.com.my\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83681\/revisions\/83717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacredheart.com.my\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacredheart.com.my\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacredheart.com.my\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}