Month: July 1979

Kit Siang calls on Ministry of Education to take note and resolve the widespread and deep-seated unhappiness and even anger of parents and people in Serdang Lama at the principal of the Kung Min Chinese primary school in Serdang Lama

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader and DAP Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, on Friday, 13th July 1979:

Kit Siang calls on Ministry of Education to take note and resolve the widespread and deep-seated unhappiness and even anger of parents and people in Serdang Lama at the principal of the Kung Min Chinese primary school in Serdang Lama

When I visited Serdang Lama in the course of my constituency tours yesterday, I was shocked to find the widespread and deep-seated unhappiness and even anger of the parents and people of Serdang Lama with the principal of the Kung Min Chinese primary school, to the extent that the people wanted to launch a mass petition to the Education Ministry against the principal. Continue reading Kit Siang calls on Ministry of Education to take note and resolve the widespread and deep-seated unhappiness and even anger of parents and people in Serdang Lama at the principal of the Kung Min Chinese primary school in Serdang Lama

Call on ASEAN countries to jointly request a United Nations General Assembly debate and jointly sponsor a resolution condemning Vietnam for its racism and genocide in extorting blood money and exporting refugees

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, and DAP Secretary-General, Lim Kit Siang, at a tea-party reception for the visiting Japanese Democratic Socialist Party Youth delegation at Federal Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, on Friday, July 13, 1979 at 10 a.m.

Call on ASEAN countries to jointly request a United Nations General Assembly debate and jointly sponsor a resolution condemning Vietnam for its racism and genocide in extorting blood money and exporting refugees

It is reported that Vietnam has formally agreed to attend the United Nations conference on South East Asian refugees in Geneva next week, on the understanding that only humanitarian aspects of the problem were to be discussed. Continue reading Call on ASEAN countries to jointly request a United Nations General Assembly debate and jointly sponsor a resolution condemning Vietnam for its racism and genocide in extorting blood money and exporting refugees

DAP welcomes government decision to establish a third medical faculty but wants to know whether its sitting in Kelantan, without teaching hospital and other supporting facilities, would cause delay to its establishment or affect medical standards

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, at the Sungei Besi Mines DAP Branch in Petaling constituency on Tuesday, 12th July 1979 at 7p.m.

DAP welcomes government decision to establish a third medical faculty but wants to know whether its sitting in Kelantan, without teaching hospital and other supporting facilities, would cause delay to its establishment or affect medical standards

The DAP welcomes the announcement by the Education Minister, Datuk Musa Hitam, on the establishment of a third medical faculty in the country. Datuk Musa Hitam said the medical faculty would be sited in Kelantan, and listed three grounds for setting up the faculty there: Continue reading DAP welcomes government decision to establish a third medical faculty but wants to know whether its sitting in Kelantan, without teaching hospital and other supporting facilities, would cause delay to its establishment or affect medical standards

DAP calls on Prime Minister, Datuk Hussein Onn, to appoint former Premier Tunku Abdul Rahman as Malaysia’s first High Commissioner for Refugees

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, on Wednesday, 11th July 1979:

DAP calls on Prime Minister, Datuk Hussein Onn, to appoint former Premier Tunku Abdul Rahman as Malaysia’s first High Commissioner for Refugees

The world is witnessing the unfolding of a great human tragedy and holocaust, where every day, thousands of Vietnamese refugees are being drowned in the high seas. Continue reading DAP calls on Prime Minister, Datuk Hussein Onn, to appoint former Premier Tunku Abdul Rahman as Malaysia’s first High Commissioner for Refugees

DAP proposes establishment of Royal Commission of Inquiry into labour laws and labour situation before any hasty, drastic amemdments to labour laws are rushed through October meeting of Parliament

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, on Wednesday, 11th July 1979:

DAP proposes establishment of Royal Commission of Inquiry into labour laws and labour situation before any hasty, drastic amemdments to labour laws are rushed through October meeting of Parliament

The speech by the Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, at last weekend’s UMNO General Assembly, attacking the labour laws as ‘time bombs’ is ominous and very unfortunate. Continue reading DAP proposes establishment of Royal Commission of Inquiry into labour laws and labour situation before any hasty, drastic amemdments to labour laws are rushed through October meeting of Parliament

Call on Health Minister, Tan Sri Chong Hong Nyan, to lift the 24-hour clamp down on free movement of patients and inmates at the Sungei Buloh Leprosarium

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, on Wednesday, 11.7.1979:

Call on Health Minister, Tan Sri Chong Hong Nyan, to lift the 24-hour clamp down on free movement of patients and inmates at the Sungei Buloh Leprosarium

I call on the Health Minister, Tan Sri Chong Hong Nyan, to lift the 24-hour clamp-down on free movement of patients and inmates at the Sungei Buloh Leprosarium as the Selangor Police do not regard the leper settlement as a ‘black area’ or security area. Continue reading Call on Health Minister, Tan Sri Chong Hong Nyan, to lift the 24-hour clamp down on free movement of patients and inmates at the Sungei Buloh Leprosarium

Call on Prime Minister, Datuk Hussein Onn, to convene an emergency Parliament meeting on the unending influx of Vietnamese refugees/illegal immigrants

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, when declaring open the First DAP Selangor State Annual Convention held at Transport Workers’ Union Hall on Sunday, 8th July 1979 at 10 a.m.

Call on Prime Minister, Datuk Hussein Onn, to convene an emergency Parliament meeting on the unending influx of Vietnamese refugees/illegal immigrants before the International Conference on the Indo-Chinese Refugees in Geneva on July 20 and July 21.

The world community has too long allowed Vietnam to get away with its barbaric and uncivilized policy of extorting blood money and exporting refugees, conducting with impunity a blatant policy of racism and genocide, which should have goaded the international community into drastic action against the Vietnamese regime, both in the United Nations and outside. Continue reading Call on Prime Minister, Datuk Hussein Onn, to convene an emergency Parliament meeting on the unending influx of Vietnamese refugees/illegal immigrants

DAP disappointed that the details of the so-called UMNO-MCA Formula for University intake

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, when officially declaring open the Balaikong DAP Branch in Kajang state constituency, Selangor, on Saturday, 7th July 1979 at 6p.m.

DAP disappointed that the details of the so-called UMNO-MCA Formula for University intake not disclosed by Datuk Hussein Onn at UMNO General Assembly as MCA leaders have made people to expect

The greatest disappointment in the speech by the Prime Minister, Datuk Hussein Onn, to the UMNO General Assembly yesterday as UMNO National President is his failure to disclose details of the so-called UMNO-MCA Formula for University intake to redress imbalances in higher educational opportunities. Continue reading DAP disappointed that the details of the so-called UMNO-MCA Formula for University intake

Call on Soviet Russia to use pressured to stop Vietnam’s barbaric policy of extorting blood money and exporting refuges to demonstrate Soviet Union’s good intentions in South East Asia

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, at a joint meeting of Serdang Bahru, Puchong and Sungei Bsi Mines Branches held at Serdang Bahru DAP Branch on Thursday, 5th July 1979 at 7.30pm

Call on Soviet Russia to use pressured to stop Vietnam’s barbaric policy of extorting blood money and exporting refuges to demonstrate Soviet Union’s good intentions in South East Asia

The DAP welcomes the decision of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers in Bali to get Soviet Russia to use pressure on Vietnam to stop its barbaric policy of extorting blood money and exporting refugees to de-stabilise ASEAN countries. Continue reading Call on Soviet Russia to use pressured to stop Vietnam’s barbaric policy of extorting blood money and exporting refuges to demonstrate Soviet Union’s good intentions in South East Asia