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2022儿童佛学班。
2022 Children Dharma Class.
push for various Dharma activities, and trying to was held on 10 May 1998, during when the activity
complete the construction of the new activity centre. centre was declared open by Deputy Chief Minister
On 29 August 1992, the Registrar of Society suddenly (1) of Sarawak Datuk Dr. George Chan Hong Nam.
sent a letter to suspend the registration of the society, A 138-page commemorate issue was edited by the
disrupting the construction plan. Secretary Leong Hock Chai (transliteration of 梁福财).

Since then, the Chairman Bro. Chia Shin Shin visited Since then, more activities were organised at the
Kuching and Kuala Lumpur several times to resolve Buddhist society. The Children Dharma Classes
the registration issue, which was then resolved on increased from one class to three classes, and the
23 September 1993 through the assistance of a local original activity space at level three was not able to
minister. The Registrar sent another letter to approve cater for the children’s activities. In fact, the space
the re-registration of the Miri Buddhist Society (1993).

The Miri High Court approved all properties of Miri
Buddhist Society to be moved under Miri Buddhist
Society (1993) on 7 June 1995.

Bro. Chia Shin Shin was elected as the Chairman of
the 6th Committee Board, and a new construction
management committee was formed to continue
the construction of the activity centre. The new
construction costed RM 1,300,000. The ground
breaking ceremony was held on 29 September 1996,
hosted by Venerable Chuan Yan, Venerable Chuan
Qin, Deputy Chief Minister (1) of Sarawak Datuk Dr.
George Chan Hong Nam.

The new activity centre was ready on 27 August
1997. The Chairman Bro. Chia Shin Shin, Deputy
Chairman Bro. Chai Chuan Peng (transliteration of 蔡
全平) and Welfare Committee Bro. Kong Chang Kim
(transliteration of 江昌锦) travelled to Taiwan to invite
the Buddha Statues, and the three Buddha statues
were delivered to the activity centre on 11 November.

The celebration of the completion of construction

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