{"id":83887,"date":"2020-07-17T14:47:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T06:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=83887"},"modified":"2020-07-17T14:47:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T06:47:55","slug":"lima21-cancelled-due-to-economic-factor-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=83887","title":{"rendered":"LIMA&#8217;21 Cancelled Due To Economic Factor, COVID-19 Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, July 17 (Bernama) &#8212; Malaysia\u2019s 2021 Langkawi\nInternational Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition (LIMA \u201921), scheduled to be\nheld from March 16-20 next year, has been cancelled due to the COVID-19\npandemic, the Defence Ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Defence Ministry and Transport Ministry, as the main\nsponsors of LIMA \u201921, are also aware of the pandemic\u2019s impact on the global\neconomy as well as the health and social aspects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs such, the government, through the Cabinet Meeting on\nJuly 8, decided to cancel the exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnother factor is time constraint. To organise such a\nbig-scale event as this during these challenging conditions will require a lot\nof time due to the detailed planning, including for carrying out promotional\nactivities and publicity so that we can get the targeted participation,\u201d the\nstatement said.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Defence Ministry also cited cost as another factor,\nadmitting that with fewer participants, it would be difficult to achieve a good\nreturn on investment based on the amount to be spent by the government and\nsponsors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It added that the decision to cancel the exhibition was made\nafter taking into consideration views from other stakeholders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, July 17 (Bernama) &#8212; Malaysia\u2019s 2021 Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition (LIMA \u201921), scheduled to be held from March 16-20 next year, has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Defence Ministry said. \u201cThe Defence Ministry and Transport Ministry, as the main sponsors of LIMA \u201921, are also aware of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":82725,"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\/83887"}],"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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}