{"id":3892,"date":"2026-03-25T07:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T07:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/?p=3892"},"modified":"2026-03-25T07:54:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T07:54:25","slug":"tenom-wesak-day-to-draw-800-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/?p=3892","title":{"rendered":"Tenom Wesak Day to draw 800 visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 800 devotees and tourists are expected to attend the 2026 state-level Wesak Day celebration in Tenom on May 30 and 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 6.5km charity run will also be held on May 30, open to public participation, said event chairman Datuk Seri Winston Liaw during a courtesy call on Sabah Tourism Board (STB) chief executive officer Julinus Jeffrey Jimit at his office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">STB supported the event with a RM20,000 sponsorship, presented to Sabah Tenom Buddhist Association chairman and organising chairperson Jackie Wong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe expect devotees from Hong Kong, Peninsular Malaysia, Brunei and Sarawak to take part,\u201d said Liaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Details of the event will be available on STB\u2019s promotional webpage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said the celebration is expected to draw more visitors to Tenom to experience its rural culture, local cuisine and customs, while boosting its profile domestically and internationally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 800 devotees and tourists are expected to attend the 2026 state-level Wesak Day celebration in Tenom on May 30 and 31. A 6.5km charity run will also be held on May 30, open to public participation, said event chairman Datuk Seri Winston Liaw during a courtesy call on Sabah Tourism Board (STB) chief executive&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3891,"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-3892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG-20260320-WA0002.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3893,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892\/revisions\/3893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}