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Call on Lee Kim Sai to stop being the biggest political boaster in Malaysia, and should instead get Dr. Mahathir or Ghaffar to come to Gopeng to release $600 million to co-operative depositors before polling day

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General, MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang at a DAP Gopeng Parliamentary by-election ceramah at Gopeng market on Sunday, May 10, 1987 at 8.30 pm

Call on Lee Kim Sai to stop being the biggest political boaster in Malaysia, and should instead get Dr. Mahathir or Ghaffar to come to Gopeng to release $600 million to co-operative depositors before polling day

MCA Deputy President, Datuk Lee Kim Sai, is the biggest political boaster in Malaysia, for he said yesterday that if the MCA nods its head, the co-operative depositors can get $600 million any time but the MCA wants instead $1.4 billion from the Government. Continue reading Call on Lee Kim Sai to stop being the biggest political boaster in Malaysia, and should instead get Dr. Mahathir or Ghaffar to come to Gopeng to release $600 million to co-operative depositors before polling day

MCA must die if the Malaysian Chinese are to live!

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General, MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the DAP Gopeng Parliamentary by-election ceramah at Kopisan on Saturday, 9.5.1987 at 8.20 p.m.

MCA must die if the Malaysian Chinese are to live!

One of the main MCA arguments why the voters of Gopeng must vote MCA is that the MCA cannot afford to lose another parliamentary seat, as it has only 17 MPs inclusive of Gopeng. Continue reading MCA must die if the Malaysian Chinese are to live!

Call on co-operatie depositors to gather at Gopeng on 12th May to witness the public burning of ‘co-operative snakes’ and demand Cabinet pledge of full refund of $1.5 billion co-operative deposits

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General, MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the DAP Gopeng Parliamentary by-election campaign ceramah at Simpang Pulai on Friday, 8.5.1987 at 9 p.m.

Call on co-operatie depositors to gather at Gopeng on 12th May to witness the public burning of ‘co-operative snakes’ and demand Cabinet pledge of full refund of $1.5 billion co-operative deposits

The $1.5 billion co-operative finance scandal is the result of the fraud and criminal breach of trust of ‘co-operative snakes’ – but there is no doubt that these ‘co-operative snakes’ would not have been able to created the greatest financial catastrophe for the Malaysian Chinese community, if not for the collusion and protection given by the ‘political snakes’ in the MCA. Continue reading Call on co-operatie depositors to gather at Gopeng on 12th May to witness the public burning of ‘co-operative snakes’ and demand Cabinet pledge of full refund of $1.5 billion co-operative deposits

Sdr. Ahmad Nor’s candidature represents the DAP’s serious commitment to unite all Malaysians regardless of race in a common political struggle to fight all forms of political and economic injustices, violation of democracy and human rights, corruption and abuses of power

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, on Gopeng by-election Nomination Day on Thursday, 7.5.1987

Sdr. Ahmad Nor’s candidature represents the DAP’s serious commitment to unite all Malaysians regardless of race in a common political struggle to fight all forms of political and economic injustices, violation of democracy and human rights, corruption and abuses of power

DAP’s candidature of former CUEPACS President, Sdr. Ahmad Nor, in the Gopeng by-election represents the DAP’s serious commitment to unite all Malaysians, regardless of race, in a common political struggle to fight all forms of political and economic injustices, violation of democracy and human rights, corruption and abuses of power. Continue reading Sdr. Ahmad Nor’s candidature represents the DAP’s serious commitment to unite all Malaysians regardless of race in a common political struggle to fight all forms of political and economic injustices, violation of democracy and human rights, corruption and abuses of power

Datuk Dr. Ling Liong Sik’s statement on MCA’s stand on full refund to co-operative depositors by early 1989 is as empty as the MCA’s general elections promise of amendment of Clause 21(2) of the 1961 Education Act

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the second DAP Gopeng Parliamentary by-election ceramah at Chendetong New Village on Nomination Bight, Thursday, 7.5.1987 at 10 p.m., followed by the public burning of a 100-foot ‘co-operative snake’

Datuk Dr. Ling Liong Sik’s statement on MCA’s stand on full refund to co-operative depositors by early 1989 is as empty as the MCA’s general elections promise of amendment of Clause 21(2) of the 1961 Education Act

MCA President, Datuk Dr. Ling Liong Sik, said two days ago that the MCA Central Committee had decided on the stand that the 588,000 co-operative depositors should get back every riggit they have deposited at the latest by early 1989. Continue reading Datuk Dr. Ling Liong Sik’s statement on MCA’s stand on full refund to co-operative depositors by early 1989 is as empty as the MCA’s general elections promise of amendment of Clause 21(2) of the 1961 Education Act

In 1984, Ting Chew Peh fully supported the collusion between the Tan Koon Swan MCA faction and the Malacca Chief Minister to destroy Bukit China in Malacca in the name of commercial and housing development

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the first DAP Goping Parliamentary by-election ceramah held at Gopeng Market on Thursday, 7.5.1987 at 8.30 p.m.

In 1984, Ting Chew Peh fully supported the collusion between the Tan Koon Swan MCA faction and the Malacca Chief Minister to destroy Bukit China in Malacca in the name of commercial and housing development

The MCA is launching a very vicious campaign, accusing the DAP of betraying the Chinese community by putting up a Malay candidate, and alleging that the DAP candidate, Sdr. Ahmad Nor, is an ‘opportunist’ and untrustworthy who had joined three political parties. Continue reading In 1984, Ting Chew Peh fully supported the collusion between the Tan Koon Swan MCA faction and the Malacca Chief Minister to destroy Bukit China in Malacca in the name of commercial and housing development

Gopeng by-election a prelude to the next general elections which may be held within 50 months

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the Gopeng DAP by-election committee meeting at Ipoh on Saturday, 2.5.1987 at 6 pm

Gopeng by-election a prelude to the next general elections which may be held within 50 months

The latest political developments in the country, and in particular the turmoil in UMNO with the recent challenge to Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed as UMNO President, the sacking and removal of five UMNO Ministers and four deputy Ministers, has created a new political scenario whereby general elections could be held as early as within 50 months. Continue reading Gopeng by-election a prelude to the next general elections which may be held within 50 months

According to the 1985 EPF Report, 3.3 per cent of its total funds of $24000, or $792 million, went to “Equities and funds with Portforlio managers.”

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the DAP May Day public protest meeting on the EPF shares scandal held at Wisma Chin Woo in Ipoh on Saturday, 2.5.1987 at 8 p.m.

According to the 1985 EPF Report, 3.3 per cent of its total funds of $24000, or $792 million, went to “Equities and funds with Portforlio managers.” The Auditor-General, in his comments on the 1985 Accounts, said that at the end of 1985, a total of $517.52 million were invested in shares of listed companies.

This means that there was a colossal sum of $275 million in the hands of the stockbrokers or merchant bankers acting as the EPF portforlio managers. This is a vast sum of money, and EPF should explain why it allowed such unhealthy practice to take place, and who are the stockbrokers or merchant bankers who acted as the EPF portforlio managers, and allowed to keep such vast sums of EPF funds as liquid cash. Continue reading According to the 1985 EPF Report, 3.3 per cent of its total funds of $24000, or $792 million, went to “Equities and funds with Portforlio managers.”

Call on the Minister of Finance, Daim Zainuddin, to explain whether the government is proposing amendments to the EPF Act 1951 to legalise investment in non-trustee stocks

Speech by Parliament Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the DAP May Day Public Protest Meeting over EPF Shares Scandal held at Penang Chinese Town Hall on Friday, 1.5.1987 at 10 a.m.

Call on the Minister of Finance, Daim Zainuddin, to explain whether the government is proposing amendments to the EPF Act 1951 to legalise investment in non-trustee stocks

The EPF owe the 4.8 million EPF contributors a full accounting on its infringement of the EPF Act to use EPF funds to invest in non-trustee stocks. Continue reading Call on the Minister of Finance, Daim Zainuddin, to explain whether the government is proposing amendments to the EPF Act 1951 to legalise investment in non-trustee stocks

DAP will definitely be contesting in the Gopeng parliamentary by-election

Press Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Thursday, 30.4.1987:

DAP will definitely be contesting in the Gopeng parliamentary by-election

I confirm that I met MCA President, Datuk Dr. Ling Liong Sik, yesterday in Kuala Lumpur for 1½ hours. I must stress that this is a ‘private’ rather than a ‘secret’ meeting.

Both of us agreed that the discussions will remain ‘private’ to both parties, and as such I have nothing to say about our discussions, except that they dealt with the national political problems, and in particular the ten areas which I had referred to in Ipoh last Saturday, relating to the dilemma faced by the Malaysian Chinese thirty years after Merdeka. Continue reading DAP will definitely be contesting in the Gopeng parliamentary by-election