{"id":578,"date":"2020-10-07T12:02:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T12:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/?p=578"},"modified":"2020-10-07T12:02:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T12:02:10","slug":"satta-chastises-a-peninsula-based-chinese-language-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"SATTA chastises a peninsula-based Chinese language paper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Association of Tour\nand Travel Agents (SATTA) has chastised a peninsula-based Chinese language newspaper\nfor publishing a disparaging article on the tourism situation in Sabah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Its chairman, Dato Seri Winston Liaw said that the broadsheet daily has blatantly labelled the Covid-19 situation in the state as \u2018Sabah Virus’ in one of its articles published on September 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSATTA received lots of complaints\nregarding the said newspaper for calling the Covid-19 as Sabah Virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSATTA urged the said newspaper to retract\nor correct the mistake as the article has seriously ruined the image of Sabah\ntourism industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMany people will lose their source of\nincome if no action is taken as lots of Sabahans  depending on the tourism sector to make a\nliving to support their families,\u201d Liaw said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said the damaging article has further\nhurt the state ailing economy and exasperated the feelings of Sabahans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe urge the said newspaper to apologise to Sabah for their unethical and irresponsible reporting,\u201d Liaw demanded.-HS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Association of Tour and Travel Agents (SATTA) has chastised a peninsula-based Chinese language newspaper for publishing a disparaging article on the tourism situation in Sabah. Its chairman, Dato Seri Winston Liaw said that the broadsheet daily has blatantly labelled the Covid-19 situation in the state as \u2018Sabah Virus’ in one of…<\/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-578","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\/578","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=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}