Riot happy more Chinese women in BN events
SERIAN: Datuk Seri Richard Riot Jaem is confident more Chinese voters in Serian will rally behind Barisan Nasional ( BN) in the coming 14th General Election (GE14) to be held anytime soon.
The Human Resources Minister and six-term Serian MP said this confidence is basedon theincreased participation of Chinese women in many Barisan Nasional-linked political and social activities of late.
He noted with interest the involvement of a growing number of Chinese women now heading working committees and organising events in the Serian parliamentary constituency, compared to the past when very few Chinese women turned up at functions let alone organised them.
“Chinese women are now heading working committees.
Chinese women are now heading working committees. Chinese women organising major social and political partyrelated functions, this to me is a happy development in the Chinese community in Serian.
Chinese women organising major social and political party-related functions, this to me is a happy development in the Chinese community in Serian,” he said at a dinner organised by Chung Hua School Serian Alumni Association at Dewan Masyarakat Serian recently.
He said support for him during elections remained strong among Dayak voters because the women had been at the forefront of many social and political activities in the villages and longhouses.
He said because of this it was only right that he helped the various women movements in the Serian parliamentary constituency.
On another matter, he reminded the Chinese community, the majority of whom reside in and around Serian town, of the direct benefit coming their way from all the major development programmes now taking place in the town.
He said because of that the Chinese community in Serian should be supportive of the BN government.
“Serian will be an economic hub. A new township, a convention centre, an industrial training institute, and a light rail train connecting here and Kuching are among developments that will bring Serian to a new socioeconomic
Datuk Seri Richard Riot Jaem, Human Resources Minister
level,” he said.
Riot announced RM15,000 fi nancial grant to the association and called on Chinese parents to seriously consider sending their children for industrial training with any of the Industrial Training Institutes ( ILPs) in the state both to help power the state towards attaining a high income economy and to be job marketcompetitive.
Also present at the dinner were political secretary to the Human Resources Minister Major (r) Datuk Peter Runin, Serian District officer Lim Hock Meng and Pemanca Chai Min Lee.