{"id":113,"date":"2007-04-14T11:30:40","date_gmt":"2007-04-14T03:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/born-in-malaysia\/2007\/04\/14\/put-knowledge-first-indians-told-sv-new-year-wishes\/"},"modified":"2007-04-14T11:30:40","modified_gmt":"2007-04-14T03:30:40","slug":"put-knowledge-first-indians-told-sv-new-year-wishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/04\/14\/put-knowledge-first-indians-told-sv-new-year-wishes\/","title":{"rendered":"Put knowledge first, Indians told &#8211; SV New Year wishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Put knowledge first, Indians told<br \/>\nPETALING JAYA: MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu extended his wishes to the Indian and Sikh communities in conjunction with the Tamil New Year and Vaisakhi today and urged them to be equipped with knowledge.<br \/>\nHe said this was necessary due to increasing economic competition.<br \/>\nSamy Vellu, who is the Works Minister, said the Indian community should be proud for having contributed to the country&#8217;s peace, prosperity and unity.<br \/>\n&#8220;I would like to wish a Happy New Year to Tamil Indians and Happy Vaisakhi to the Sikh community. Since Malaysia&#8217;s independence, we have achieved a lot,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nOn the MIC&#8217;s part, he said the party would help in efforts to uplift the Indian community in the field of education.<br \/>\nMalkit Singh, secretary of Malaysian Gurdwaras Council, urged the Sikh community to help in building a truly united and cohesive nation. \u2013 Bernama<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Put knowledge first, Indians told PETALING JAYA: MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu extended his wishes to the Indian and Sikh communities in conjunction with the Tamil New Year and Vaisakhi today and urged them to be equipped with knowledge. He said this was necessary due to increasing economic competition. Samy Vellu, who is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19,133,24,225],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-education","tag-isa","tag-mic","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}