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The STPM exam leak report scandal: Is there a report or no report?

by Parliament Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kiat Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Friday, June 8, 1984 :

The STPM exam leak report scandal: Is there a report or no report?

The Ministry of Education statement in today’s press that the Minister of Education, Datuk Dr. Sulaiman Daud, had not yet received the STPM examination papers leakage inquiry report from the Malaysian Examinations Council has introduced a disturbing air of mystery to the inquiry and its report. Continue reading The STPM exam leak report scandal: Is there a report or no report?

Call on Dr. Mahathir Mohamed to respect the views of the people of Papan and reconsider the radioactive waste dumping ground project

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Thursday, 7.6.1984:

Call on Dr. Mahathir Mohamed to respect the views of the people of Papan and reconsider the radioactive waste dumping ground project

The announcement by the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, that the government would go ahead with the construction of the radioactive waste dumping ground in Papan, Perak, is most shocking, especially as the people of Papan and the surrounding regions have made clear their opposition to the project on the grounds of health and welfare of the people in the region, as well as for future generations. Continue reading Call on Dr. Mahathir Mohamed to respect the views of the people of Papan and reconsider the radioactive waste dumping ground project

Challenge to MCA, Gerakan, MIC and SUPP to state within 48 hours whether they are prepared to join DAP MPs to submit a joint Parliamentary motion to oppose the legalization of illegal Indonesian immigrants

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Sian, at/the public seminar / the opening of on ‘Prospects and Perspectives of Malaysia in the 1990s’ organized by the Malacca DAP Socialist Youth on Sunday, 3rd June 1984 at 10 a.m.

Challenge to MCA, Gerakan, MIC and SUPP to state within 48 hours whether they are prepared to join DAP MPs to submit a joint Parliamentary motion to oppose the legalization of illegal Indonesian immigrants.

For the last few months, while the component Barisan Nasional parties like the MCA, Gerakan, MIC were engaged in an intense, no-holds-barred internal power struggle, the people’s political, economic, educational and cultural rights had suffered the greatest erosion and setbacks. Continue reading Challenge to MCA, Gerakan, MIC and SUPP to state within 48 hours whether they are prepared to join DAP MPs to submit a joint Parliamentary motion to oppose the legalization of illegal Indonesian immigrants

DAP calls for removal of Jawi from the Bahasa Malaysia syllabus and be categorised as one of the optional ‘Pupil’s Own Language’ subjects

By parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Saturday, 2.6.1984:

DAP calls for removal of Jawi from the Bahasa Malaysia syllabus and be categorised as one of the optional ‘Pupil’s Own Language’ subjects

The handing of the ‘Jawi compulsory subject’ issue seems to confirm a pattern of the modus operandi of the Deputy Minister of Education, Dr. Tan Tiong Hong, which is to use denial as a delaying tactic to evade his responsibility over educational issues at least until he had left the Education Ministry when he would have no more responsibility. Continue reading DAP calls for removal of Jawi from the Bahasa Malaysia syllabus and be categorised as one of the optional ‘Pupil’s Own Language’ subjects

DAP welcomes Dr. Mahathir’s assurance of impartial investigation and firm action over the gruesome killing of four Cheroh residents.

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Mp for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Saturday, 2nd June 1984 :

DAP welcomes Dr. Mahathir’s assurance of impartial investigation and firm action over the gruesome killing of four Cheroh residents.

I welcome the assurance which the Prime Minister, and Defence Minister, Datuk Mahathir Mohamed, has given me to reply my cable to him on the gruesome killing of four Cheroh new village residents at an estate fish pond near Sungai Mas on 23rd May 1984, which had shocked and agitated the people in the entire Raub and surrounding districts. Continue reading DAP welcomes Dr. Mahathir’s assurance of impartial investigation and firm action over the gruesome killing of four Cheroh residents.

Education Ministry’s regulation that Jawi is a compulsory subject violates Article 152 of Malaysian Constitution

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Mp for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the Selangor State DAP Committee meeting on Friday, 1.6.1984 at 8 pm

Education Ministry’s regulation that Jawi is a compulsory subject violates Article 152 of Malaysian Constitution

On 26th Feb.1984, when opening the Penang DAP State Seminar on Malaysian Culture, I stated for the first time that there was proposal, in conformity with the ‘One Language, One Culture’ policy proclaimed after the Barisan Nasional’s April 1982 general elections victory, to make Jawi a compulsory subject for all pupils, including Chinese and Tamil primary schools. Continue reading Education Ministry’s regulation that Jawi is a compulsory subject violates Article 152 of Malaysian Constitution

Call on Prime Minister and Defence Minister to order a public inquiry into the gruesome killing of four in Cheroh to restore public confidence in view of widespread suspicion of involvement of security forces

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Saturday, 26.5.1984 at 12 noon

Call on Prime Minister and Defence Minister to order a public inquiry into the gruesome killing of four in Cheroh to restore public confidence in view of widespread suspicion of involvement of security forces

The killing of four Chroh new village resident at an estate fish pond near Sungai Mas on Wednesday, 23rd May 1984 has shocked and agitated the people not only in the Cheroh new village, but the whole Raub district. Continue reading Call on Prime Minister and Defence Minister to order a public inquiry into the gruesome killing of four in Cheroh to restore public confidence in view of widespread suspicion of involvement of security forces

DAP call for a referendum to decide whether the Malaysia-Indonesia agreement to import Indonesian labour should be ratified and implemented

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Mp for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, at the Penang DAP State Committee meeting in Penang on Saturday, 26.5.1984 at 8 p.m.

DAP call for a referendum to decide whether the Malaysia-Indonesia agreement to import Indonesian labour should be ratified and implemented

Friday’s newspapers cafried the repot of Batu Pahat trader, Tan Kian Sing, 39, from Batu Pahat, who was found murdered in his palm oil smallholding near Kuantan, where he had gone for an inspection. His workers, who are illegal Indonesian immigrants, are also missing. Continue reading DAP call for a referendum to decide whether the Malaysia-Indonesia agreement to import Indonesian labour should be ratified and implemented

Dap calls for the establishment of a Parliamentary select Committee to investigate in Mak Foon Than’s allegations that he had acted as agent for Finance Minister, Tengku Razaleigh and other Cabinet Minister in Hong Kong

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Mp for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the Raub DAP Branch Anniversary Dinner help in Raub on Saturday, May 5. 1984 at 9pm

Dap calls for the establishment of a Parliamentary select Committee to investigate in Mak Foon Than’s allegations that he had acted as agent for Finance Minister, Tengku Razaleigh and other Cabinet Minister in Hong Kong

The Finance Minister, Tengku Razaleigh, has strongly denied in tato the allegations made by the allegations made by the accused killer Mak Foon Than, that Mak was his agent and had been sent to hong kong to collect $6 million from businessmen during the time of the murder of Bumiputra Malaysia Finance assistant general manager, Jalil Ibrahim in July 1983. Continue reading Dap calls for the establishment of a Parliamentary select Committee to investigate in Mak Foon Than’s allegations that he had acted as agent for Finance Minister, Tengku Razaleigh and other Cabinet Minister in Hong Kong

Neo Yee Pan-Tan Koon Swan fight is a power struggle of personalities and not a policy dispute and whoever wins would bring no political, economic, educational or cultural change or benefits to Malaysia Chinese.

Speech by parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Mp for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the one-day Malacca State DAP Seminar for state and branch leaders help at Tan Kim Hock Restaurant on Sunday, 29.4.1984 at 10.a.m.

Neo Yee Pan-Tan Koon Swan fight is a power struggle of personalities and not a policy dispute and whoever wins would bring no political, economic, educational or cultural change or benefits to Malaysia Chinese.

For the last one year since the political retirement of Datuk Lee San Choon, and the appointment of Datuk Dr. Neo Yee Pan as Acting
MCA president, the Neo Yee Pan-Tan Koon Swan power struggle, and in particular in the last three months, had so dominated public attention that important political and economic developments which would have far-reaching consequences on the people’s rights and that of future generations had been relegated to peripheral position. Continue reading Neo Yee Pan-Tan Koon Swan fight is a power struggle of personalities and not a policy dispute and whoever wins would bring no political, economic, educational or cultural change or benefits to Malaysia Chinese.