{"id":16586,"date":"2022-11-10T14:39:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T06:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=16586"},"modified":"2022-11-10T14:39:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T06:39:28","slug":"grs-candidate-lau-helped-solve-our-problem-says-seafood-restaurant-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2022\/11\/10\/grs-candidate-lau-helped-solve-our-problem-says-seafood-restaurant-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"GRS candidate Lau helped solve our problem, says seafood restaurant owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SANDAKAN:   Seafood restaurant owner Lam Yuk Fai revealed that he started to take interest in politics after he met GRS P186 Sandakan candidate Lau Chi Keong @ Thomas Lau.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have never been interested in politics until I met Lau,\u201d Lam said at his restaurant where Lau held a political talk on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Lam said he approached Lau on the streetlight problem in the Sim-Sim neighbourhood after his appeal to incumbent elected representatives of Sandakan got nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>I was amazed by the quick response from Lau in resolving the issue for Sim-Sim residents unlike the incumbent elected representatives who conveniently pushed aside the matter, Lam added.<\/p>\n<p>As voters, we should choose a candidate that listens to our grouses and take initiatives to find solutions, and I am more convinced than ever  to support Lau based on his ability to resolve issues promptly for the people, Lam said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, GRS P186 Sandakan candidate Lau Chi Keong told the audience at the political talk (ceramah), he has been helping Tanjong Papat to resolve problems concerning public facilities in the constituency.<\/p>\n<p>After my appointment as Tanjong Papat Chinese Community Leader (Kapitan) in December 2021, I received many complaints from constituents on faulty basic amenities and had since attended to the cases promptly, Lau said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will be able to further serve the Sandakan people and address their problems more effectively and efficiently if I am elected as a Member of Parliament by Sandakan voters,\u201d Lau who is SAPP vice president said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANDAKAN: Seafood restaurant owner Lam Yuk Fai revealed that he started to take interest in politics after he met GRS P186 Sandakan candidate Lau Chi Keong @ Thomas Lau. \u201cI have never been interested in politics until I met Lau,\u201d Lam said at his restaurant where Lau held a political talk on Wednesday afternoon. Lam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":16587,"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-16586","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\/16586","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=16586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16588,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16586\/revisions\/16588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}