{"id":2315,"date":"2008-09-04T15:10:37","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T07:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/09\/04\/terengganus-new-task-force-for-minorities\/"},"modified":"2008-09-05T11:38:24","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T03:38:24","slug":"terengganus-new-task-force-for-minorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/09\/04\/terengganus-new-task-force-for-minorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Terengganu&#8217;s new task force for minorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terengganu BN is following up on its rejuvenation process by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/9\/4\/nation\/20080904094103&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">setting up a task force<\/a> to protect and take care of the needs of the minority communities &#8211; Chinese, Indians, Siamese, and Orang Asli.<\/p>\n<p>The idea from current Menteri Besar Ahmad Said is being headed by a MCA guy &#8211; Datuk Wong Foon Meng.<\/p>\n<p>The task force&#8217;s job is among others to:<br \/>\n&#8211; provide suggestions and recommendations to the state government on how to lift the standard of living among the<br \/>\nminorities,<br \/>\n&#8211; look into any discriminatory policies against minorities<br \/>\n&#8211; render education opportunities to all locals.<br \/>\n&#8211; look into how more from the community could be absorbed into the state civil service.<br \/>\n&#8211; ensure local authorities issue licences to the minority groups without being biased<br \/>\n&#8211; ensure that steps be taken to stop possible occurrence of racial slurs in government departments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terengganu BN is following up on its rejuvenation process by setting up a task force to protect and take care of the needs of the minority communities &#8211; Chinese, Indians, Siamese, and Orang Asli. The idea from current Menteri Besar Ahmad Said is being headed by a MCA guy &#8211; Datuk Wong Foon Meng. The [&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":[115,154,200],"class_list":["post-2315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-economy","tag-poverty","tag-terengganu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315","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=2315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}