{"id":261,"date":"2020-03-12T10:18:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T10:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/?p=261"},"modified":"2020-03-12T10:18:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T10:18:09","slug":"satta-propose-visit-china-after-covid-19-is-contained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"SATTA propose visit China after Covid-19 is contained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Association of\nTour and Travel Agents (SATTA) has proposed a visit to Zhangjiajie in Hunan\nprovince after the Covid-19 outbreak is contained in China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its chairman, Dato&#8217; Seri Winston Liaw said on March 11, 2020  the visit was to reciprocate China strong support towards the Sabah&#8217;s tourism sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is to show not only we are the first\njoint government private community who contribute to China, but also wish the\nfirst government private community to visit China after China declare the virus\nhas contained,\u201d Liaw said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had proposed the entourage from Sabah should\ncomprise members of the non-governmental organisations involved in the Sabah\nGovernment initiated \u2018We Care, We Love&#8217; Charity Fund Raising Dinner at Wisma\nHakka Hall in aid of Wuhan&#8217;s Covid-19 patients in Feb this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMaybe we can visit Zhangjiajie which is\nadorned with beautiful scenic views neither in May or June this year as by then\nthe outbreak might be contained,\u201d Liaw proposed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had discussed the idea with Federation\nof Chinese Associations Sabah president Tan Sri TC Goh and Consul General of\nChina in Kota Kinabalu Liang Caide during the handing over of the RM2 million\nfunds raised for Wuhan on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proceeds was presented by Deputy Chief\nMinister cum Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Christina Liew to\nLiang at the Tourism Ministry office. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, he said SATTA strongly believed\nthat regardless of who is the government of the day, Sabah should not be left\nout in the development of the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The newly formed federal government should\nfocus on the nation\u2019s economy in order to enhance our citizens well being. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe federal government should work hand in\nhand with Sabah Government to promote and enhance the state&#8217;s economy so that\nthe citizens of Sabah will have speedy recovery from the impact done by Covid-19,\u201d\nhe urged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Association of Tour and Travel Agents (SATTA) has proposed a visit to Zhangjiajie in Hunan province after the Covid-19 outbreak is contained in China. Its chairman, Dato&#8217; Seri Winston Liaw said on March 11, 2020 the visit was to reciprocate China strong support towards the Sabah&#8217;s tourism sector. \u201cThis is to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}