Author: Curator

Kenyir Hydro-Electric Dam – Korean Exploitation of Malaysian Workers

In the Government’s Look East campaign, Japanese and South Korean companies have moved into Malaysia in a major way to take over the big construction projects, displacing local contractors and workers of the contracts and job opportunities.

The Government had justified this on the ground that the Japanese and South Korean construction giants could impart needed skills to Malaysian workers and transfer technology.

But the actual experiences of such cases seem to show that there is imparting of very little skills to Malaysians nor transfer of technology. Continue reading Kenyir Hydro-Electric Dam – Korean Exploitation of Malaysian Workers

BMF Scandal: The Seremban Declaration

I am moving a motion to cut the salary of the Finance Minister by $10 to protest in the strongest possible manner against the Government’s handling of the $2,500 million Bumiputra Malaysia Finance (BMF) loans scandal in Hong Kong up to today. As the Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, has said that the Finance Ministry was and is at all material times responsible for Bank Bumiputra, and the BMF, and not the Prime Minister’s Department, I am moving this $10 cut against the Finance Minister’s salary and not the Prime Minister’s salary.

The Government’s handling of the BMF scandal has completely discredited the present administration’s two most popular slogans: ‘Clean, Efficient and Trustworthy’ Government and ‘Leadership by Example’. Continue reading BMF Scandal: The Seremban Declaration

Signboards and Advertisement

I am moving this $10 cut in the salary of the Minister for Housing and Local Government, Datuk Dr. Neo Yee Pan, to censure him for his failure to check and prevent the implementation of the ‘One Language, One Culture’ advertisement policy of the various Municipal and District Councils.

Only a few days ago, the Alor Star District council made it clear that it would not compromise on its advertisement regulations seriously affecting the usage of Chinese language on signboards and advertisements, and as a result, several Chinese businessmen had taken down their signboards and advertisements in protest. Continue reading Signboards and Advertisement

Cuckoo’s Land in Parliament

I congratulate the Finance Minister, Tengku Razaleigh, and the other Cabinet Ministers for their great parliamentary performance or non-performance during the winding up for the 1984 Budget debate in the last two weeks, for they have completely belittled the dignity and purpose of the Parliament.

During the Budget debate, I spoke for more than an hour on the $2,500 million Bumiputra Malaysia Finance loans scandal in Hong Kong, for the whole sordid saga highlighted not only the negligence and irresponsibility of BMF directors and officials as well as Bank Bumiputra Directors, I also highlighted the irresponsibility and negligence as well of the various regulatory and supervisory bodies over Bank Bumiputra and BMF, like the Bank Negara, the Ministry of Finance, the Prime Minister’s Department, PNB, the Registry of Companies, the internal and external auditors, and even the entire Cabinet. Continue reading Cuckoo’s Land in Parliament

BMF Scandal- ‘Let the chips fall where they should’

The Finance Minister’s 1984 Budget would probably go down in Malaysian history as the Budget which commanded the shortest span of public attention. It is not even a nine-day wonder, for after one’s day’s publicity, the Malaysian public returned to the greater preoccupation about the $2,500 million loans scandal of Bumiputra Malaysia Finance in Hong Kong, the biggest banking and financial scandal in the history of Malaysia since Merdeka.

I believe I am not the only one to be very disappointed by the failure of the Finance Minister. Tengku Razaleigh, to take the opportunity of the 1984 Budget presentation to make disclosures, either through his orang presentation or by way of an appendix to the Treasury report 1983/84, about the BMF scandal in Hong Kong in view of the colossal sum of public funds involved. Continue reading BMF Scandal- ‘Let the chips fall where they should’

Official Secrets Act

I rise to take part in the debate on the Official Secrets (Amendment) Bill 1983 with a great sense of anguish and sorrow. I have two reasons for this.

Firstly, following the debate on the Official Secrets (Amendment) Bill 1983 yesterday, it is clear that the Barisan MPs who has spoken and who had tried to interrupt the speeches of the DAP MP for Kepong, Dr. Tan Seng Giaw, and the DAP MP for Sungei Besi, Chan Kok Kit, did not have a faintest clue as to what they were talking about for they did not know what is meant by ‘official secrets’.
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The BMF Scandal – Bank Negara’s Role

Firstly, I wish to protest in the strongest possible terms against the most cavalier and arrogant attitude of the Government in refusing to give MPs adequate time to study the Banking (Amendment) Bill 1983 for the overwhelming majority of MPs would have received the Bill only this morning or yesterday.

As far as the Government is concerned, Parliament is only a rubberstamp and it does not matter if MPs do not know what is in the Bill, for they are only needed to provide the ‘ayes’ to pass the Bill upwards on its way to become law. Continue reading The BMF Scandal – Bank Negara’s Role

The BMF Scandal – Bank Negara’s Role

Firstly, I wish to protest in the strongest possible terms against the most cavalier and arrogant attitude of the Government in refusing to give MPs adequate time to study the Banking (Amendment) Bill 1983 for the overwhelming majority of MPs would have received the Bill only this morning or yesterday.

As far as the Government is concerned, Parliament is only a rubberstamp and it does not matter if MPs do not know what is in the Bill, for they are only needed to provide the ‘ayes’ to pass the Bill upwards on its way to become law. Continue reading The BMF Scandal – Bank Negara’s Role

DAP ‘Do-or-Die’ Three Year Plan for 1986

DAP ‘Do-or-Die’ Three Year Plan for 1986

The DAP Central Executive Committee, as well as the DAP Summit Meeting of National and State Leader, at Cameron Highlands from Step. 9-11, took the historic decision to embark on a ‘Do-or-Die’ Three Year Plan to fight the next general elections expected to be held in 1986.

In April 1982, the people of Malaysia missed a golden opportunity to force the Mahathir administration to conduct a painful reappraisal of its nation building policies by causing electoral setbacks for the Barisan Nasional in the general elections. Continue reading DAP ‘Do-or-Die’ Three Year Plan for 1986

DAP Calls on Malaysian Government and other ASEAN country to ban all Aeroflot and Soviet Union vessels from the region

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Monday, 5.9.83:

DAP Calls on Malaysian Government and other ASEAN country to ban all Aeroflot and Soviet Union vessels from the region in protest against the cold-blooded murder of 269 people on board the South Korean commercial jet

Four days after the despicable and dastardly Soviet Union crime against humanity in shooting down an unarmed commercial South Korean jet and killing in cold-blood the 269 people on board, the Soviet Union is still not prepared to acknowledge its responsibility and to tender an unconditional apology to the victims, their nations and to humanity as a whole. Continue reading DAP Calls on Malaysian Government and other ASEAN country to ban all Aeroflot and Soviet Union vessels from the region