Author: Curator

Is Tan Koon Swan faction instigating UMNO to ask MCA to leave Barisan Nasional as a leverage in MCA power struggle?

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at a DAP Perak Dinner held at Fong Lim Restaurant, Ipoh on Friday, August 9, 1985 at 8 pm

Is Tan Koon Swan faction instigating UMNO to ask MCA to leave Barisan Nasional as a leverage in MCA power struggle?

With the approach of the Barisan Nasional Supreme Council meeting on August 17, called specifically to deal with the PICA crisis as if it is a naughty boy which must be disciplined by the elders for its errant ways, the question that is making the newspaper headlines is whether MCA would be asked to leave Barisan Nasional and rejoin the coalition after it had solved its party crisis. Continue reading Is Tan Koon Swan faction instigating UMNO to ask MCA to leave Barisan Nasional as a leverage in MCA power struggle?

What is the rental of the MPMT Bachang building and who is the landlord?

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary- General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Malacca on Wednesday, 7.8.1985

What is the rental of the MPMT Bachang building and who is the landlord?

The Melaka Tengah Municipal Council has rented a new block of 3 ½ – storey shop- lot in Bachang to extend its office space. I have been informed that the MPMT is paying rental for the now Bachang office at a rental well beyond the market rates. Continue reading What is the rental of the MPMT Bachang building and who is the landlord?

Dr. Mahathir’s Bukit Mertajam speech heralds the end of MCA’s right to choose its own leaders or decide its own future

Press Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary- General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Seremban on Wednesday, August

Dr. Mahathir’s Bukit Mertajam speech heralds the end of MCA’s right to choose its own leaders or decide its own future

The Bukit Mertajam speech by the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, yesterday is very significant, for it henalds the end of MCA’s the end of MCA’s right to choose its own leaders or decide its own future. Continue reading Dr. Mahathir’s Bukit Mertajam speech heralds the end of MCA’s right to choose its own leaders or decide its own future

DAP commends PAS and calls on UMNO to join the Save Sim Kie Chon campaign on humanitarian, equality, justice and moral grounds

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Malacca on Tuesday, 6.8.1985 at 11.30 a.m.

DAP commends PAS and calls on UMNO to join the Save Sim Kie Chon campaign on humanitarian, equality, justice and moral grounds

I commend PAS for its call on the Pardons Board to reconsider the Sim Kie Chon appeal and to commute Sim’s death sentence to life imprisonment based on principles of justice and humanity. Continue reading DAP commends PAS and calls on UMNO to join the Save Sim Kie Chon campaign on humanitarian, equality, justice and moral grounds

DAP calls for a fully.-powered independent inquiry into the problem of the mass-scale acquisition of blue identity cards by illegal. Indonesian immigrants which grant them citizenship rights for themselves and their off-springs

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the Pudu DAP Branch Anniversary Dinner held at Kornp1ex Wilayah, Jalan Canipbell on Sunday, 4.8.1985 at 9 pm

DAP calls for a fully-powered independent inquiry into the problem of the mass-scale acquisition of blue identity cards by illegal. Indonesian immigrants which grant them citizenship rights for themselves and their off-springs.

Yesterday, the Chairman of the Selangor Malay Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Raja Datuk Nasron Raja Ishak, disagreed with my earlier call in Johore Bahru for an effective government campaign to deport the illegal Indonesian immigrants end to declare Johore as a ‘black area’ because of its frontline position with regard to illegal Indonesian immigrants. Continue reading DAP calls for a fully.-powered independent inquiry into the problem of the mass-scale acquisition of blue identity cards by illegal. Indonesian immigrants which grant them citizenship rights for themselves and their off-springs

Has Datuk Seri Mahathir brought forward his China trip by three weeks from November to October

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary- General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the Taiping DAP Branch 2,000 People 19th Anniversary Dinner held in Taiping on Saturday, August 3, 1985 at 8 p.m.

Has Datuk Seri Mahathir brought forward his China trip by three weeks from November to October

The next general elections in not far away. It could be held in April next years, although I will not rule out completely the possibility of the general election being held at the end of this year itself. Continue reading Has Datuk Seri Mahathir brought forward his China trip by three weeks from November to October

Call on Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed to help secure the pardon of Sim Kie Chon in the way Tunku Abdul Rahman helped secure the pardon of the 13 Condemned because of Indonesian Confrontation in l968

Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary— General for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the launching of the Save Condemned Sim Kie Chon mass signature campaign in Ipoh on Friday, 2.8. 1985 at 9 a.m.

Call on Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed to help secure the pardon of Sim Kie Chon in the way Tunku Abdul Rahman helped secure the pardon of the 13 Condemned because of Indonesian Confrontation in l968

The DAP calls on the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, to intervene and help secure the pardon of Sim Kie Chon and the commutation of his death penalty to life imprisonment. Continue reading Call on Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed to help secure the pardon of Sim Kie Chon in the way Tunku Abdul Rahman helped secure the pardon of the 13 Condemned because of Indonesian Confrontation in l968

Warning to a thrice—weekly that it would be sued for every defamatory statement or article in its campaign of hate and character—assassination against the DAP leaders

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary—Genera1and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the DAP Dinner to raise the political consciousness of the people held at Kuala Kurau, Perak, on Friday, 2nd August 1985 at 8 am

Warning to a thrice—weekly that it would be sued for every defamatory statement or article in its campaign of hate and character—assassination against the DAP leaders.

In my 19 years of political involvement, I had not until recently sued newspapers for defamation. This is not because I had not been a target of character—assassination, but because as a former journalist myself, I am very reluctant to institute legal proceedings against newspapers. Continue reading Warning to a thrice—weekly that it would be sued for every defamatory statement or article in its campaign of hate and character—assassination against the DAP leaders

Call on UMNO and PAS to support the Mission of Mercy to grave the condemned, Sim Kie Chon, from hangman’s rope

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary- General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, when launching the DAP Save Condemned Sim Kie Chong mass signature campaign in Seremban on Thursday 1.8.1985 at 12 noon.

Call on UMNO and PAS to support the Mission of Mercy to grave the condemned, Sim Kie Chon, from hangman’s rope.

I have come to Seremban to formally launch the DAP Save Condemned Sim Kie Chon mass signature campaign in Negri Sembilan. Continue reading Call on UMNO and PAS to support the Mission of Mercy to grave the condemned, Sim Kie Chon, from hangman’s rope

Urgent cables to MCA and Gerakan Ministers to raise Sim Kie Chong’s commutation on Wednesday’s Cabinet: If Mochtar Hashim could be pardoned, Sim has greater right to live

Press Conference Statement (3) by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Monday, 29.7.l985.

Urgent cables to MCA and Gerakan Ministers to raise Sim Kie Chong’s commutation on Wednesday’s Cabinet: If Mochtar Hashim could be pardoned, Sim has greater right to live

I have just sent urgent cables to the four MCA Ministers, Datuk Dr. Neo Yee Pan (Housing and Local Government), Tan Sri Chong Hong Nyan (Transport), Datuk Mak Hon Kam (Labour) Datuk Chin Hon Ngian (Health) and the Gerakan Minister, Datuk Paul Leong (Primary Industries) to raise the question of Sim Kee Chon’s commutation from death sentence to life imprisonment on Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting. Continue reading Urgent cables to MCA and Gerakan Ministers to raise Sim Kie Chong’s commutation on Wednesday’s Cabinet: If Mochtar Hashim could be pardoned, Sim has greater right to live