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I must apologise to the Gerakan and MCA leaders for spoiling their Chinese New Year because of the DAP’s withdrawal from Gagasan Rakyat

Posted by Curator in Coalition Politics, DAP on January 28, 1995

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjong, Lim Kit Siang,in Penang on Saturday, January 28, 1995:

I must apologise to the Gerakan and MCA leaders for spoiling their Chinese New Year because of the DAP’s withdrawal from Gagasan Rakyat

I must apologise to the Gerakan and MCA leaders for spoiling their Chinese New Year because of the DAP’s withdrawal from Gagasan Rakyat. Read the rest of this entry »

DAP’s withdrawal from the Gagasan Rakyat has confused, upset and even panicked some Barisan Nasional leaders

Posted by Curator in Coalition Politics, DAP, Elections, PAS on January 27, 1995

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjong, Lim Kit Siang,in Penang on Friday, 27th January 1995:

DAP’s withdrawal from the Gagasan Rakyat has confused, upset and even panicked some Barisan Nasional leaders

It is clear that DAP’s withdrawal from the Gagasan Rakyat has confused, upset and even panicked some Barisan Nasional leaders. Read the rest of this entry »

Anwar Ibrahim is inheriting the mantle of Ghazalie Shafie as the Barisan Nasional ideologue when he said that the country can do without an Opposition

Posted by Curator in Coalition Politics, DAP, Good Governance on January 18, 1995

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Wednesday, 18.1.1995:

Anwar Ibrahim is inheriting the mantle of Ghazalie Shafie as the Barisan Nasional ideologue when he said that the country can do without an Opposition

Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, is inheriting the mantle of Ghazalie Shafie as the Barisan Nasional ideologue when he said in Kuching yesterday that the people can do without the Opposition as the Barisan Nasional is able to play “the Opposition’s role” effectively. Read the rest of this entry »

Kit Siang denies MCA and Gerakan propaganda attack that he had said in Ipoh recently that “if the DAP fails in the next general elections, it is prepared to disappear from the Malaysian political scene”

Posted by Curator in Coalition Politics, DAP, Land Acquisition on December 20, 1994

Speech by the Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary General and MP for Tanjong, Lim Kit Siang at the Seremban DAP Dinner in Seremban on Tuesday. 20th December 1994 at 7.30 pm

Kit Siang denies MCA and Gerakan propaganda attack that he had said in Ipoh recently that “if the DAP fails in the next general elections, it is prepared to disappear from the Malaysian political scene”

For the past one week. MCA and Gerakan leaders have accused me of political blackmail in my speech when launching the DIP Perak Full Liberalisation campaign in Ipoh on Sunday, 10th December 1994. Read the rest of this entry »

Malaysia today would be a very different country if there had been n’ DAP in the past 28 years

Posted by Curator in Chinese Culture, Chinese Schools, DAP, Education, Good Governance, Malaysian Chinese, Malaysian Malaysia on December 10, 1994

Speech by the Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary General and MP for Tanjong, Lim Kit Siang when launching the Pull Liberalisation campaign in Perak at a ceramah at the Tou Boo Kong Hall in Ipoh on Saturday, 10th December, 1994 at 8pm

Malaysia today would be a very different country if there had been no DAP in the past 28 years

DAP MPs and leaders can feel proud that when Chinese education, Chinese primary schools, Chinese Independent Secondary Schools faced their greatest threat in the 1970s and early l980s, they were there to stand up in Parliament in the defence of Cultural Democracy. Read the rest of this entry »

Dap CEC meeting on 13th December will focus on land acquisition abuses, injustices and reforms

Posted by Curator in Abuse of Power, Accountability, Anti-Corruption, DAP, Land Acquisition on November 30, 1994

Press statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjong, Lim Kit Siang in Petaling Jaya on 30 November 1994 at 11.30 am

Dap CEC meeting on 13th December will focus on land acquisition abuses, injustices and reforms

The DAP Central Executive Committee meeting on 13th December will focus on land acquisition abuses, injustices and reforms as the arbitrary, inequitable and unfair government acquisition of provate land for development by private companies and individuals have become one of the burning issues of the country. Read the rest of this entry »

DAP to launch a nation-wide campaign to spread the message of ‘Full Liberalisation’ to achieve it Malaysian Malaysia to all parts of the country tor the next three months

Posted by Curator in Campaign, DAP, ISA, Malaysian Malaysia on October 18, 1994

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjong, Lim Kit Siang, when launching the new book of collection of political speeches and writings by DAP Deputy Secretary-General and MP for Siputeh, Liew Ah Kim at the Selangor Assembly Hall on Tuesday, October 18, 1.994 at 7.30 pm

DAP to launch a nation-wide campaign to spread the message of ‘Full Liberalisation’ to achieve it Malaysian Malaysia to all parts of the country tor the next three months

When Ah Kim asked me to contribute a foreword to his new book, I re-read some of his political writings which I had first read when I was in Kamunting Detention Centre for 19 months as an Internal Security Act detainee after the Operation Lalang arrests in October 1987. Read the rest of this entry »

DAP to launch a nation-wide campaign to explain its call for ‘Full Liberalisation’ of nation-building policies to give every Malaysian an equal place under the Malaysian sun

Posted by Curator in Campaign, DAP, Elections on October 9, 1994

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjong, Lim Kit Siang, at the opening of the Johore DAP State Convention in Kulai on Sunday, 9th October 1994 at 10 a.m.

DAP to launch a nation-wide campaign to explain its call for ‘Full Liberalisation’ of nation-building policies to give every Malaysian an equal place under the Malaysian sun

Penang DAP held five ‘Tanjong 3′ Marathon Thousand-People Dinners for five consecutive nights on the Penang island at the Penang-Chinese Town Hall from Monday to Friday and will hold another five ‘Tanjong 3′ Marathon Thousand-People Dinners on the Penang mainland from October 20 to 24. Read the rest of this entry »

DAP unfurled the banner of Cultural Democracy challenge the Gerakan cultural policy of assimilation and subservience is far back as 26 years ago in the Great DAP-Gerakan Cultural Debate in 1968

Posted by Curator in Culture, DAP, Democracy, Gerakan on October 5, 1994

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP ISecretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the third Penang ‘Tanjong’ 3′ Marathon Thousand-People Dinner held at, Penang Chinese Town Hall on Wednesday, 5th October 1994 at 8 p.m
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DAP unfurled the banner of Cultural Democracy challenge the Gerakan cultural policy of assimilation and subservience is far back as 26 years ago in the Great DAP-Gerakan Cultural Debate in 1968

Twenty-six years ago, on November 24, 1968 the DAP and the Gerakan had a historic cultural debate at the then Auditorium in Kuala Lumpur. Read the rest of this entry »

DAP invites Gerakan and MCA to join the DAP in the struggle for ‘Full Liberalisation’ of nation-building policies and to achieve the Ten Democratisations to give every Malaysian an equal place under the Malaysian sun

Posted by Curator in Coalition Politics, DAP, Nation Building on October 3, 1994

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the inaugural Penang ‘Tanjong 3′ Marathon Thousand-People Dinner held at Penang Chinese Town Hall on Monday, 3rd October 1994 at 8 pm

DAP invites Gerakan and MCA to join the DAP in the struggle for ‘Full Liberalisation’ of nation-building policies and to achieve the Ten Democratisations to give every Malaysian an equal place under the Malaysian sun.

This morning, in conjunction with tonight’s inaugural Ten-Night Penang ‘Tanjong 3′ Marathon Thousand-People Dinners, the DAP released its first Nation-Building Policies for Malaysia on ‘Full Liberalisation’ and the Ten-Point Democratisation Programme which will be the basis of the DAP elections manifesto in the next general elections. Read the rest of this entry »