{"id":31586,"date":"2019-07-07T08:14:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T00:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=31586"},"modified":"2019-07-07T08:14:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T00:14:55","slug":"penang-eyes-20000-visitors-for-george-town-heritage-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=31586","title":{"rendered":"Penang eyes 20,000 visitors for George Town Heritage Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"http:\/\/pcms.bernama.com:7788\/\/storage\/photos\/3b802c2c6499038d7550598bddfa31275d20b61b5c7ce\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>GEORGE TOWN, July 7 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; The Penang government has\u00a0targeted\u00a020,000 visitors at the\u00a011th edition of the George Town Heritage Celebration scheduled from July 6-8 this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow said 22 interactive community workshops have been lined up for the three-day programme themed&nbsp;\u201cLet\u2019s Celebrate &#8211;&nbsp;Rituals and Festive Events\u201d to introduce the&nbsp;diverse cultures and traditions here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith the interactive community workshops, visitors will get to engage with the local communities&nbsp; through a range of activities such as birthdays, coming-of-age ceremonies, pre-wedding rituals and wedding ceremonies,\u201d he told reporters during a tour of the site here today.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that different themes and activities would be introduced in this annual programme to provide&nbsp;fresh and unique experience for the participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, Chow, along with the state executive committee&nbsp;members,&nbsp;Members of Parliament and Penang state assemblymen visited the community workshops in a special tour conducted by George Town World Heritage Incorporated (GTWHI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NNN- BERNAMA<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GEORGE TOWN, July 7 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; The Penang government has\u00a0targeted\u00a020,000 visitors at the\u00a011th edition of the George Town Heritage Celebration scheduled from July 6-8 this year. Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow said 22 interactive community workshops have been lined up for the three-day programme themed&nbsp;\u201cLet\u2019s Celebrate &#8211;&nbsp;Rituals and Festive Events\u201d to introduce the&nbsp;diverse cultures and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":7828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31586"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}