Re-join DAP, leaders told

THE DAP’s Skudai assemblyman Dr Boo Cheng Hau has publicly asked former Johor DAP deputy chairman Norman Fernandez to re-join the party, Sin Chew Daily reported.

At a fund raising dinner in Johor Baru on Friday, the former Johor Opposition chief said: “I hope leaders who have left the DAP will come back. The DAP does not belong to Norman or to my dad!”

Those who attended the dinner cheered when Dr Boo made the remarks.

Kota Melaka MP Sim Tong Him, who was also at the dinner, told the crowd that the DAP belonged to all members.

“I would like to remind that the DAP does not belong to your father, and that you can do whatever you like. There is no such thing.

“DAP does not belong to anyone’s father. DAP belongs to all of us,” he said.

> ABOUT 100 Form Three students of Chung Hwa Independent School in Kuantan will sit for their Unified Examination Certificate (UEC) this year, China Press reported.

The school board chairman Tan Sri Pheng Yin Huah said even more students had applied there after they learned that the school was allowed to hold the examination.

However, Pheng, who is the Federation of Chinese Associations Malaysia (Hua Zong) president, said the school had to reject some of the applications as the current venue could not accommodate so many students.

He added that the school would raise funds for expansion in April.

The school, which started three years ago, will hold the examination for the first time after the United Chinese Schools Teachers’ Association (Jiao Zong) and United Chinese School Committees’ Association (Dong Zong), collectively known as Dong Jiao Zong, gave the school the greenlight last October.

The school presently has 400 students.

> Kwong Wah Yit Poh reported that Taiwanese singer Christine Fan Wei-chi would take a break from her singing career for at least a year to look after her twin baby boys.

Fan and her Taiwanese artiste husband Blackie Chen married in 2011. The one-year old twins are Rui Fei and Rui Xiang.

At the launch of her 10th album in Taipei recently, Fan said she would stop singing temporarily after promotions for the new album ended this month.

“I do not want to miss seeing my boys growing up,” she said, adding that for now, she would finish her work before 9pm daily so that she could be with her sons before their bedtime.

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