{"id":13274,"date":"2022-06-20T15:01:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T07:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=13274"},"modified":"2022-06-20T15:01:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T07:01:19","slug":"sandakan-to-be-upgraded-as-city-this-year-bung-moktar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2022\/06\/20\/sandakan-to-be-upgraded-as-city-this-year-bung-moktar\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandakan to be upgraded as city this year &#8211; Bung Moktar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SANDAKAN: \u00a0Sandakan is expected to be upgraded to a city between August and October, said Sabah Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Seri Bung Moktar Radin.<br \/>\nHe said the upgrading was supposed to be done early this year, however, due to certain constraints, the plans\u00a0had to be postponed.<br \/>\n\u201cNow, Sandakan is ready. The Sandakan Municipal Council said they are ready for the implementation( to city status). Of course, this would improve Sandakan\u2019s economy and we will implement new plans,\u201d he told reporters after closing the Keluarga Malaysia (Malaysian Family) Youth Carnival\u00a0here last night.<br \/>\nAccording to Bung Moktar, among the plans was to boost Sandakan\u2019s economy was in terms of tourism and participation of small entrepreneurs.<br \/>\n\u201cFor example, perhaps we will build a waterfront like in Kota Kinabalu and that will attract tourists,\u201d he added.<br \/>\n&#8212; BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; SANDAKAN: \u00a0Sandakan is expected to be upgraded to a city between August and October, said Sabah Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Seri Bung Moktar Radin. He said the upgrading was supposed to be done early this year, however, due to certain constraints, the plans\u00a0had to be postponed. \u201cNow, Sandakan is ready. The Sandakan Municipal Council [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":13275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13276,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13274\/revisions\/13276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}