{"id":26232,"date":"2024-02-10T15:36:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T07:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=26232"},"modified":"2024-02-10T15:36:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T07:36:18","slug":"ex-sabah-chief-minister-brightens-up-the-chinese-new-year-open-house-in-tombol-village-kota-belud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2024\/02\/10\/ex-sabah-chief-minister-brightens-up-the-chinese-new-year-open-house-in-tombol-village-kota-belud\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Sabah chief Minister brightens up the Chinese New Year open house in Tombol Village, Kota Belud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KOTA KINABALU: The Chinese New Year is celebrated on a grand scale by the Chinese community throughout the country today, marking the birth of the new year according to the lunar calendar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chinese New Year is divided into a cycle of 12 years and named after the Chinese zodiac (animal names).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year is the Year of the Dragon, the fifth animal in the cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Sabah, the Chinese New Year celebration is joyfully and festively celebrated by people of various ethnicities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tradition of visiting and open houses is held by the Chinese community, including at the village level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the open houses is hosted by Chinese captain Datuk Andy Chua at Kg Tombol Village, Kota Belud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Datuk Andy Chua&#8217;s open house receives visits from the public in Tombol Village, starting from 10 am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among those present is the former Sabah chief minister, who is also the Usukan assemblyman, Datuk Seri Dr Salleh Said Keruak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU: The Chinese New Year is celebrated on a grand scale by the Chinese community throughout the country today, marking the birth of the new year according to the lunar calendar. The Chinese New Year is divided into a cycle of 12 years and named after the Chinese zodiac (animal names). This year is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":26230,"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-26232","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\/26232","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=26232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26234,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26232\/revisions\/26234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}