{"id":19229,"date":"2021-02-08T16:44:29","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T08:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=19229"},"modified":"2021-02-09T15:16:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T07:16:23","slug":"should-be-no-double-standards-in-cny-reunion-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/should-be-no-double-standards-in-cny-reunion-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Should be no double-standards in CNY reunion dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cnyy-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cnyy-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cnyy-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cnyy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cnyy-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cnyy-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cnyy-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cnyy-960x960.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cnyy.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chinese community is fully committed to fighting together with all Malaysians to defeat the COVID-19 threat by complying with the SOPs, even for the coming Chinese New Year celebrations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The confusion over the nonsensical CNY SOPs by the PN government, is a disturbing display of cultural insensitivity and disrespect, that should not have happened after 63 years of Merdeka<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There should be no double-standards, especially when weekly or daily&nbsp; pasar malams open to the public are allowed throughout the country, but not a once in a year CNY Reunion Dinner for family members only. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Buddhist or Taoist temples are merely asking for the same rules applied for other religions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No one is asking for inter-state travel but just like pasar malams, those living within 10kms should not be barred from the CNY Reunion Dinner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chinese community should not be made to appeal or even beg to be treated equally with pasar malams to celebrate their CNY Reunion Dinner with their loved ones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This hurts the feelings of the Chinese community and does not help to foster mutual respect and national unity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Lim Guan Eng<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Secretary General of DAP<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese community is fully committed to fighting together with all Malaysians to defeat the COVID-19 threat by complying with the SOPs, even for the coming Chinese New Year celebrations. The confusion over the nonsensical CNY SOPs by the PN government, is a disturbing display of cultural insensitivity and disrespect, that should not have happened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-highlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19240,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19229\/revisions\/19240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}