{"id":16902,"date":"2022-11-17T14:54:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T06:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=16902"},"modified":"2022-11-17T14:54:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T06:54:55","slug":"lau-assures-sandakan-folks-he-will-give-his-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2022\/11\/17\/lau-assures-sandakan-folks-he-will-give-his-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Lau assures Sandakan folks he will give his best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SANDAKAN: Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) candidate for Sandakan Lau Chi Keong @ Thomas Lau assures Sandakan constituents he will give his best to serve them if he is elected as Member of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Promises are meant to be kept and I intend to honour my election pledges to the people of Sandakan should they give me the mandate on Nov 19.<\/p>\n<p>Lau said during the \u201cCeramah Perdana Sandakan Ketua Menteri Bersama Rakyat \u201dprogramme at the Hakka Hall here on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I have promised in my political talk sessions are not lies to win votes but something I am committed to do for Sandakan through my five-point development plan,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>First, Lau said, he would propose for the setting up of a special committee to work closely with the State and Federal Governments to identify and implement measures to revive Sandakan\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecondly, I will propose for the construction of a recreation centre in Sim Sim with a beautiful view of Pulau Berhala for families to spend leisure time activities together,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from this, Lau said he would upgrade the markets in Elopura and Kim Fung, proposed for the construction of a technical college to produce competitive youths, create  more employment opportunities to reduce the migration of youths to Peninsula Malaysia and other parts of this region. <\/p>\n<p>Lau is also determined to realise the wish of local folks to have an Urban Transformation Centre in Sandakan. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is part of the mission which I will set out to achieve if I am elected by the Sandakan electorates. With my experience in the civil service and business, I am ready to offer my service to help develop Sandakan to a far better level,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANDAKAN: Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) candidate for Sandakan Lau Chi Keong @ Thomas Lau assures Sandakan constituents he will give his best to serve them if he is elected as Member of Parliament. Promises are meant to be kept and I intend to honour my election pledges to the people of Sandakan should they give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":16903,"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-16902","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\/16902","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=16902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16904,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16902\/revisions\/16904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}