{"id":16624,"date":"2022-11-11T14:49:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T06:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=16624"},"modified":"2022-11-11T15:58:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T07:58:56","slug":"lau-to-sandakan-voters-give-me-an-iopportunity-to-serve-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2022\/11\/11\/lau-to-sandakan-voters-give-me-an-iopportunity-to-serve-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Lau to Sandakan voters: Give me an opportunity to serve you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SANDAKAN: Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) P186 Sandakan candidate Lau Chi Keong @ Thomas Lau met with residents of Sim Sim Low Cost Housing on Thursday, the sixth day of his election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>During the walkabout programme from Lorong A to H, residents and traders took the opportunity to highlight their needs to Lau. <\/p>\n<p>A former worked was excited to meet Lau who stopped by at his house.  Awang Jumaat Salim, 67, was employed as a security guard at Lau\u2019s restaurant near Sandakan Central Market some15 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Describing his former employer as a kind hearted person, Awang Jumaat said Lau gave importance to the welfare of all his workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very happy to see him again and I pray for his victory in this election,\u201d Awang Jumaat told reporters covering the programme. <\/p>\n<p>Elderly resident Chong Ha Hau, 80, said he was excited on learning his old friend Lau was contesting in this general elections.<\/p>\n<p>He will support Lau and hopes that Lau will become the Sandakan Member of Parliament. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Lau revealed that his campaign trail has been smooth so far, adding that, residents responded positively to his presence and wished him the best. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I am given the mandate by Sandakan voters, I am determined to serve them to the best of my ability,\u201d Lau said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANDAKAN: Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) P186 Sandakan candidate Lau Chi Keong @ Thomas Lau met with residents of Sim Sim Low Cost Housing on Thursday, the sixth day of his election campaign. During the walkabout programme from Lorong A to H, residents and traders took the opportunity to highlight their needs to Lau. A former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":16626,"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-16624","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\/16624","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=16624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16644,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16624\/revisions\/16644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}