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Royal Commission of Inquiry should inquire as to why Selangor State Government failed to help Bright Sparklers Sdn. Bhd. relocate away from a residential area

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Wednesday, May 15, 1991:

Royal Commission of Inquiry should inquire as to why Selangor State Government failed to help Bright Sparklers Sdn. Bhd. relocate away from a residential area.

DAP is gravely concerned that 40 workers of the Bright Sparklers fireworks factory which was destroyed in the Sungai Buloh explosions disaster a week ago are still not accounted for. Continue reading Royal Commission of Inquiry should inquire as to why Selangor State Government failed to help Bright Sparklers Sdn. Bhd. relocate away from a residential area

Ling Liong Sik should lead a MCA delegation to meet Malay newspaper editors to ask them to stop using the word ‘Chinatown’ to describe the Malaysian Chinese Cultural City to prevent the arousal of communal feelings

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Tuesday, 14th May 1991:

Ling Liong Sik should lead a MCA delegation to meet Malay newspaper editors to ask them to stop using the word ‘Chinatown’ to describe the Malaysian Chinese Cultural City to prevent the arousal of communal feelings.

The top MCA leadership now says that the MCA President, Datuk Ling Liong Sik, will meet the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, after his return from abroad tomorrow to explain the MCA’s stand on the Malaysian Chinese Cultural City. Continue reading Ling Liong Sik should lead a MCA delegation to meet Malay newspaper editors to ask them to stop using the word ‘Chinatown’ to describe the Malaysian Chinese Cultural City to prevent the arousal of communal feelings

DAP calls on Cabinet tomorrow to decide that eight Ministers and the Selangor Mentri Besar should appear before Royal Commission of Inquiry to give public testimony on the role of their Ministries in the Sungai Buloh fireworks factory disaster explosion

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Tuesday, May 14, 1991:

DAP calls on Cabinet tomorrow to decide that eight Ministers and the Selangor Mentri Besar should appear before Royal Commission of Inquiry to give public testimony on the role of their Ministries in the Sungai Buloh fireworks factory disaster explosion.

Malaysians are very disappointed that the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Sungai Buloh fireworks factory disaster explosion had not been set up yesterday as promised by the Deputy Prime Minister, Ghafar Baba. Continue reading DAP calls on Cabinet tomorrow to decide that eight Ministers and the Selangor Mentri Besar should appear before Royal Commission of Inquiry to give public testimony on the role of their Ministries in the Sungai Buloh fireworks factory disaster explosion

DAP calls for the immediate release of Jeffrey Kitingan or he should be charged in court with a chance to defend himself

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Tuesday, 14th May 1991:

DAP calls for the immediate release of Jeffrey Kitingan or he should be charged in court with a chance to defend himself.

The detention of Sabah Foundation director Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan immediately after Tun Mustapha’s victory at the Usukan by-election with a smaller majority is a clear abuse of power and the latest violation of human rights in Malaysia. Continue reading DAP calls for the immediate release of Jeffrey Kitingan or he should be charged in court with a chance to defend himself

Liong Sik should stop turning and twisting and make a clear-out stand on the Malaysian Chinese Cultural City issue

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Monday, 13th May 1991:

Liong Sik should stop turning and twisting and make a clear-out stand on the Malaysian Chinese Cultural City issue.

MCA President, Datuk Dr. Ling Liong Sik, said yesterday that he would not publicly discuss the issue of the Malaysian Chinese Cultural City as he does not want to create a ‘scare’ among the people. Continue reading Liong Sik should stop turning and twisting and make a clear-out stand on the Malaysian Chinese Cultural City issue

Both the Minister and Deputy Minister for Human Resources should be called to appear before the Royal Commission of Inquiry to explain their conflicting statements

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Monday, 13th May 1991:

Both the Minister and Deputy Minister for Human Resources should be called to appear before the Royal Commission of Inquiry to explain their conflicting statements.

The victims of the Sungai Buloh fireworks factory explosions disaster and the Malaysians public must be utterly confounded by the plethora of conflicting and contradictory statements that keep coming out from different government authorities. Continue reading Both the Minister and Deputy Minister for Human Resources should be called to appear before the Royal Commission of Inquiry to explain their conflicting statements

Ling Liong Sik should give a clear-out statement whether MCA is abandoning the proposal for a Malaysian Chinese Cultural City or whether he is staking his position as MCA President to proceed with it

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the Penang DAP 25th Anniversary dinner held at Fortune Restaurant, Penang on Sunday, 12th May 1991 at 8 p.m.

Ling Liong Sik should give a clear-out statement whether MCA is abandoning the proposal for a Malaysian Chinese Cultural City or whether he is staking his position as MCA President to proceed with it.

The claim by the MCA National Vice Chairman and Human Resources Minister, Datuk Lim Ah Lek, that the Cabinet had imposed a ban on public discussion of the MCA proposal for a Malaysian Chinese Cultural City was again exposed to be untrue when yesterday another UMNO Minister came out in the fiercest attack so far on the proposal. Continue reading Ling Liong Sik should give a clear-out statement whether MCA is abandoning the proposal for a Malaysian Chinese Cultural City or whether he is staking his position as MCA President to proceed with it

Liong Sik may have lost the last change to build the Malaysian Chinese Cultural City when he failed to got the Cabinet to give it formal approval on Wednesday

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Saturday, 11th May 1991:

Liong Sik may have lost the last change to build the Malaysian Chinese Cultural City when he failed to got the Cabinet to give it formal approval on Wednesday.

A week ago, I advised the MCA President, Datuk Dr. Ling Liong Sik, that unless he presented the Malaysian Chinese Cultural City proposal at the Cabinet this Wednesday to get its formal approval, the pressures from UMNO leaders opposing the proposal are likely to mount until the MCA leadership would buckle under and abandon the proposal altogether. Continue reading Liong Sik may have lost the last change to build the Malaysian Chinese Cultural City when he failed to got the Cabinet to give it formal approval on Wednesday

Daim’s statement most unsatisfactory and misleading in failing to disclose the full extent of his relationship with the Sungai Buloh fireworks factory whose explosions killed or injured 100 people on Tuesday

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary- General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Friday, May 10, 1991:

Daim’s statement most unsatisfactory and misleading in failing to disclose the full extent of his relationship with the Sungai Buloh fireworks factory whose explosions killed or injured 100 people on Tuesday.

I find the statement by the former Finance Minister and currently UMNO Treasurer, Datuk Paduka Daim Zainuddin, responding to my call to him to declare his relationship with the Sungai Buloh fireworks factory whose explosion on Tuesday killed or injured 100 people most unsatisfactory and misleading. Continue reading Daim’s statement most unsatisfactory and misleading in failing to disclose the full extent of his relationship with the Sungai Buloh fireworks factory whose explosions killed or injured 100 people on Tuesday

Kit Siang writes to Ghafar Baba to express full supper for Royal Commission of Inquiry into Sungai Buloh fireworks factory disaster but a presses concern at ‘cover up’ attempts by certain vested interests

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary- General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Friday, May 10, 1991:

Kit Siang writes to Ghafar Baba to express full supper for Royal Commission of Inquiry into Sungai Buloh fireworks factory disaster but a presses concern at ‘cover up’ attempts by certain vested interests.

I have today written to the Deputy Prime Minister, Ghafar Baba, expressing full support for the establishment of a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Sungai Buloh fireworks factory explosion disaster which had killed or injured 100 people and destroyed numerous houses in Sungai Buloh new village. Continue reading Kit Siang writes to Ghafar Baba to express full supper for Royal Commission of Inquiry into Sungai Buloh fireworks factory disaster but a presses concern at ‘cover up’ attempts by certain vested interests