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TheSun 2008-11-04 Page07 Kuas Contract Not Extended
TheSun 2008-11-04 Page07 Kuas Contract Not Extended
TheSun 2008-11-04 Page07 Kuas Contract Not Extended
Kua’s contract
not extended
A 10-3 vote by Dong Zong to be run based on
(United Chinese School the constitution of the
Committees Association) Press Digest college management
not to extend the contract by Kong See Hoh and that of the centre.
of Kua Kia Soong as New newsdesk@thesundaily.com He said it was also
Era College principal agreed that Dong Zong
made headline news in the Chinese press would continue to actively participate in
yesterday. the management of the non-profit DJZ
The decision, made at Dong Zong’s Education Centre.
extraordinary general meeting in Kajang Apart from Dong Zong, other
on Sunday, put a period to months of stakeholders of the centre are Jiao
bickering over the issue. Zong (United Chinese School Teachers
Kua will now have to leave the college Association), Merdeka University Berhad
when his contract expires on Dec 31, and the centre’s sponsors.
having failed to put in an application Yap said he believed Dong Zong
when the Dong Jiao Zong Education would not be split on the college issue
Centre, which runs the college, advertised and urged its three dissenting state
for a new principal. The closing date for components to respect the decision
applications was Oct 31. reached at the EGM.
Dong Zong chief Dr Yap Sin Tian, who Kua said what was decided at the EGM
is also the college’s senate chief, said he was Dong Zong’s stand on the matter, and
would leave the matter of hiring a new that as far as he knew, Merdeka University
college head to the centre. Berhad had taken a different stand a day
Kua, meanwhile, expressed earlier.
disappointment at Dong Zong’s decision He stressed that he had never asked to
and said he would leave the matter to the have his contract extended.
Chinese community – his “real boss”. Asked what he would do next, Kua
At the two-hour closed-door EGM said: “What can I do when the boss has
which attracted a record turnout, 10 state written to me to say I will not be rehired?
Dong Liang Hui (components of Dong I will have to look at the response of the
Zong) voted against a motion by Malacca, Chinese community, which is my (real)
Negri Sembilan and Johor to extend Kua’s boss.”
contract. He said he was willing to serve as New
Speaking to the press after the meeting, Era head but would not apply for the job.
Yap said that apart from a vote on the “This is my stand,” he said, adding that
motion, the state components reached a he had taken up the position when it was
consensus on three points, including a offered to him by Yap’s predecessors in
decision that New Era would continue Dong Zong.