{"id":26892,"date":"2024-03-07T12:23:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T04:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=26892"},"modified":"2024-03-07T12:23:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T04:23:36","slug":"sandakan-and-suzhou-have-a-lot-to-offer-for-msia-and-china-says-a-former-sabah-cabinet-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2024\/03\/07\/sandakan-and-suzhou-have-a-lot-to-offer-for-msia-and-china-says-a-former-sabah-cabinet-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandakan and Suzhou have a lot to offer for M&#8217;sia and China, says a former Sabah cabinet minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SANDAKAN: Sandakan and the historical city of Suzhou, China, have a lot to offer both countries, according to a former Sabah cabinet minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Datuk Frankie Poon Ming Fung, who is currently the Tanjung Papat assemblyman, believes that further discussions between the two places can lead to a win-win situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poon expressed his pleasure in welcoming the Suzhou business group to Sandakan and highlighted the exchange of ideas and characteristics between the two locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During dinner, they had friendly discussions about the needs of the Suzhou participants and the opportunities that Sandakan and Sabah have to offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poon mentioned that investors are particularly interested in studying and exploring the Sabah MM2H programmes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also noted that they appreciate the warm and friendly culture of Sabahan, and some are even interested in investing in Sabah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, they expressed their desire to bring their contacts and friends to visit Sabah, especially to enjoy the seafood dishes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poon acknowledged that they raised valid issues and assured them that answers to their questions would be found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given the geographical proximity between Sabah and Suzhou, Fung believes that they will want to come back again, especially during the winter season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, he suggested that Air Asia seriously consider including Sandakan on their international routes to contribute to the local economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANDAKAN: Sandakan and the historical city of Suzhou, China, have a lot to offer both countries, according to a former Sabah cabinet minister. Datuk Frankie Poon Ming Fung, who is currently the Tanjung Papat assemblyman, believes that further discussions between the two places can lead to a win-win situation. Poon expressed his pleasure in welcoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":26893,"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-26892","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\/26892","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=26892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26894,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26892\/revisions\/26894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}