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| <b>Kuching</b> schools top state wushu meet - The Borneo Post Online Posted: 11 Dec 2013 11:25 AM PST by Ting Tieng Hee, reporters@theborneopost.com. Posted on December 12, 2013, Thursday SJK Chung Hua No. 4, SMK Kuching High crowned primary, secondary school champs respectively KUCHING: SJK Chung Hua No. 4 and SMK Kuching High were crowned primary school and secondary school champions of the 23rd Sarawak Wushu Championship as they powered Kuching to clinch the overall championship with 145 gold, 70 silver and 38 bronze medals. SMK Kuching High's challenge was centred around national juniors Elvic Bong Qian Zheng, who took 8 gold and 2 silver, and Clement Thian Fung Seng (5 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze), ending their campaign on a high with a total of 24 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze. Elvic won his gold medals in Boy's A changquan, taijiquan, taijijian and jianshu, Boy's B standardised routine changquan, Boy's D1 elementary changquan, Boy's D1 elementary nanquan and Boy's D1 foundation daoshu. His two silvers came from the Boy's B standardised routine taijiquan 24-style and Group event. For his excellent performance at this year's meet held at Kenyalang Park Community Hall over the last weekend, Elvic was also adjudged the Best Athlete. Meanwhile, Clement finished first in Boy's A nanquan, nandao, Boy's B standardised routine nanquan, standardised routine daoshu and standardised routine nandao. He won the silver in the Boy's A changquan and Group event and the bronze from the Boy's B standardised routine changquan and standardised routine taijiquan 24-style. Runner-up in the secondary schools section was SMK Sungai Tapang who won 16 gold, 6 silver and 4 bronze while SMK Jalan Arang settled for third place with 9 gold and 1 silver. Fourth and fifth were SMK Chung Hua Miri (6-8-12) and St Joseph Private School (6-3-3) respectively. State exponents Felicia Ma Hui Qi and Fu Wen Jie combined for a total of 11 gold medals to lead SJK Chung Hua No. 4 to a successful defence of the primary school overall championship with 17 gold, 10 silver and 1 bronze. Felicia's golds were won in the Girl's B standardised routine nanquan, Group event, Girl's D1 elementary changquan, Girl's D1 elementary nanquan, Girl's E4 foundation changquan and Girl's E4 foundation jianshu. She finished second in the Girl's B standardised routine changquan, Girl's B standardised routine taijijian 32-style, Girl's B standardised routine jianshu and Girl's B standardised routine nandao. Fu bagged the gold in Girl's C elementary changquan, Group event, Girl's C junior jianshu, Girl's E4 foundation changquan and Girl's E4 foundation jianshu. She won the silver in optional routine taijiquan and Girl's B standardised routine taijiquan 24-style. Runner-up in the primary schools competition were SJK Chung Hua No. 3 who collected 10 golds, 12 silvers and 4 bronzes to finish ahead of SJK Chung Hua No. 2 who had 8-9-1. SJK Chung Hua Batu 4 1/2 were fourth with their medal haul of 8-4-0 while in fifth spot was Chung Hua Batu Kawa who won 7-2-4. Only two teams participated in the kindergarten section which saw Tadika Alfa Q-Dee emerging champion with 1 gold medal. For the overall championship standing, Sibu finished as runner-up with 56-48-24 bronzes while Miri came in third with 18-17-15. The two-day competition, organised by Wushu Federation of Sarawak (WFS)and supported by the Sarawak State Sports Council, attracted the participation of 187 students from 54 schools throughout the state. An encouraging trend was that a record number of eight non-Chinese exponents took part in the championship this year. They were Elizabeth Tambong of SJK(C) Ming Syn, Saratok; Elizabeth Beckxia of SK Sacred Heart Semeba, Kuching; Xulivera Mccoy and Ekaterina from SJK Chung Hua No. 5; Yong Arifah Khairul Kok of SMK Sungai Maong, Kuching; Muhammad Asri Abdul Wahab of SMK Kampung Nangka, Sibu; and siblings Vincent Joseph and Henry Joseph from SMK Tinggi Sarikei. The championship also served as an avenue for WFS to unearth new talents and select exponents to be groomed for next year's Education Ministry (KPM) Junior Wushu Championship.  To enable your comment to be published, please refrain from vulgar language, insidious, seditious or slanderous remarks. This includes vulgar user names.  |
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| Nicole Lai ends Sarawak tour in <b>Kuching</b> | The Borneo Post SEEDS <b>...</b> Posted: 09 Dec 2013 02:00 PM PST Tuesday, 10 Dec 2013 By Patricia Hului KUCHING: More than a hundred fans turned up to catch Nicole Lai at Boulevard Shopping Mall on Dec 8, last Sunday during her Kuching stop on the promotional tour of her first EP album, 'People that I love, Close'.  POWER VOCALS: Nicole singing her heart out onstage. Known for her clear powerful vocals, the 24-year-old beauty originally from Kuala Lumpur rose up as champion in last year's Astro Star Quest, the most notable Chinese singing reality show in Malaysia. She then represented Malaysia in Taiwan's Chinese Million Star 2 and came home as the second runner up.
 PERSONAL TOUCH: Nicole playing a games with a couple of her lucky fans. Organised by See Hua Group together with Astro, Nicole made three stops in Sarawak which also included Miri and Sibu the previous weekend. Her next stop will be in Mahkota Parade Malacca on the Dec 14. |
| Fynna Erfinna: Quick update- I was in <b>Kuching</b>! Posted: 10 Dec 2013 06:09 AM PST Salam & Hillu! I was really excited to blog a moment ago.. ..that was before I browsed through the photos I took. -.- All the photos from my Kuching trip was taken using a different camera & I couldn't care less about turning off the "date-on-photo" thingy and now I fully regret that I didn't care UGH! I'm still sharing the photos anyway but I have no mood to edit it all out (the dates) so hopefully you'll accept it better than I do. :\ If you are one of my followers in IG, you would know that I was in Kuching for my B's wedding. Apart from being there for her, I took the opportunity to try all the food that I can while I was there! ..and I brought back some few Kgs as my souvenir. Enjoy the compilation of some random photos! I'll try to blog properly again very soon, I still have another road trip so it's kinda hard to focus on blogging for the time being.                   Special shout out & huge thanks to Nano, who brought us around while we were there!:D I still have more photos & things to share, |
| Iban Christians to gather in <b>Kuching</b> to pray for religious freedom <b>...</b> Posted: 10 Dec 2013 08:00 AM PST
Christian groups in Sarawak have expressed fears that the October 14 Allah ruling infringes upon their religious freedom. More than 10,000 Iban Christians in Malaysia will gather in Kuching this week where they will remind Putrajaya to respect the Malaysia Agreement with Sabah and Sarawak, especially on the point of religious freedom. The four-day annual gathering, called the Gempuru Besai Kristian Jaku Iban Malaysia (meeting of Iban-speaking Christians in Malaysia), will see more than double the number of faithful who attended last year's event in Bintulu. One of the organisers of the event, Pastor James Ganie, from the Gospel Baptist Church in Kuching, said although the large gathering had nothing to do with the Allah case which is currently in court, the participants will be making a declaration linked to the issue. "The large gathering has more to do with faith rather than the legal matter that is before the court, or even politics," Ganie told The Malaysian Insider in Sarawak capital city Kuching. "But we will be making our stand again on religious freedom. The meeting will again ask the government to respect the Malaysia Agreement and the assurance of religious freedom," he added. The Federal Constitution says Islam is the official religion of the federation but other faiths can be practised too, subject to non-proselytization of Muslims. Muslims form nearly 60% of the 29-million Malaysian population. Ganie pointed out that very first point in the 18-point agreement for Sarawak and 20-point for Sabah states that "while there was no objection to Islam being the national religion of Malaysia, there should be no State religion in North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak, and the provisions relating to Islam in the present Constitution of Malaya should not apply to North Borneo". "We are still standing for the freedom of religion," Ganie added. East Malaysians were also shaken when the Court of Appeal, in its October 14 ruling, said the word Allah is banned from non-Muslim publications, including the Catholic weekly, Herald. The Catholic Church is appealing that ruling at the Federal Court. The four-day religious gathering, which will be held at the Borneo Convention Centre, returns to Kuching after 16 years. The gathering, which has its roots in Sibu when it started off as the Pan-Borneo convention in 1996, is aimed at uniting the leaders and members of the various Iban-speaking churches in Sarawak, the country's largest state. Ganie said some 20 churches and denominations have confirmed participation in this year's event. Three internationally renowned lay speakers, Pastor Dr David Demian, a Canadian of the Watchmen of the Nations, Pastor Jeromer Ocampo, of the Jesus Revolution Now! Movement from the Philippines, and Malaysia's Pastor Dr Chew Weng Chee, a senior pastor of Sidang Injil Borneo Kuala Lumpur (SIBKL), have been invited to speak at the meeting. "Their speeches will be instantly translated into Iban," Ganie said, referring to the largest tribe in Sarawak. |
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