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DAP’s open challenge to MCA President, Dato Lee San Choon and Gerakan President, Dr. Lim Chong Eu, to a public debate on the future of Chinese primary schools

by DAP Secretary-General, Lim Kit Siang, on Wednesday, 7th Sept. 1977:

DAP’s open challenge to MCA President, Dato Lee San Choon and Gerakan President, Dr. Lim Chong Eu, to a public debate on the future of Chinese primary schools to be chaired by the Thung Chung and Chiau Chong

It has been reported that on Sunday, the Gerakan National Publicity Secretary and once a bright young leader of MCA, Dr. Tan Tiong Hiong, denied in Malacca that the government would convert Chinese primary schools by 1980. He attacked the Opposition for spreading malicious rumours to this effect to discredit the National Front. He claimed that such rumours are completely without basis or truth.

When Dr. Tan referred to the Opposition he is clearly referring to the DAP. It is clear that Dr. Tan does not know what he is talking about. The DAP has never said that the Chinese primary schools would be converted in 1980. Continue reading DAP’s open challenge to MCA President, Dato Lee San Choon and Gerakan President, Dr. Lim Chong Eu, to a public debate on the future of Chinese primary schools

Malaysia Fancy Plywood and Veneer Company close-down: Management’s offer of $30 loan for some 4 months of stoppage ridiculous

by Ketua Pembangkang and DAP Secretary-General, Lim Kit Siang, on Tuesday, 6.9.77

Malaysia Fancy Plywood and Veneer Company close-down: Management’s offer of $30 loan for some 4 months of stoppage ridiculous

I am glad to see that following pressures from all directions, the Minister of Labour, Dato Lee San Choon, has at last acted. in the matter of the close-down of the Malaysia Fancy Plywood and Veneer Company where some 460 workers have been thrown out of jobs since July 1. Continue reading Malaysia Fancy Plywood and Veneer Company close-down: Management’s offer of $30 loan for some 4 months of stoppage ridiculous

DAP calls for resignation of Ganie Gilong and Dr. Goh Cheng Teik as Minister and Deputy Minister of Works and Utilities for the Sri Jaya bus-fare increase scandal

By Ketua Pembangkang and DAP Secretary-General, Lim Kit Siang, on Monday, 5.9.1977:

DAP calls for resignation of Ganie Gilong and Dr. Goh Cheng Teik as Minister and Deputy Minister of Works and Utilities for the Sri Jaya bus-fare increase scandal

On the occasion of the country’s twentieth anniversary of Merdeka, Malaysians must have been disgusted by a string of instances highlighting the ineffectiveness, indifference and even downright incompetence of Ministers and Deputy Ministers. Continue reading DAP calls for resignation of Ganie Gilong and Dr. Goh Cheng Teik as Minister and Deputy Minister of Works and Utilities for the Sri Jaya bus-fare increase scandal

Call to retiring Chief of Armed Forces, Gen. Tan Sri Ibrahim Ismail, to look into complaints by soldiers that they are being asked to contribute between $20 – $30 compulsorily to buy farewell gifts for him

By Ketua Pembangkang and DAP Secretary-General, Lim Kit Siang (3.9.1977)

Call to retiring Chief of Armed Forces, Gen. Tan Sri Ibrahim Ismail, to look into complaints by soldiers that they are being asked to contribute between $20 – $30 compulsorily to buy farewell gifts for him

I have received complaints from members of the armed forces that they are being required compulsorily to contribute between $20 – $30 for farewell gifts and farewell occasions on the retirement of the Chief of Armed Forces Staff, Gen. Tan Sri Ibrahim Ismail, with effect from Dec. 1. Continue reading Call to retiring Chief of Armed Forces, Gen. Tan Sri Ibrahim Ismail, to look into complaints by soldiers that they are being asked to contribute between $20 – $30 compulsorily to buy farewell gifts for him

Call for inquiry into why a 17-year old boy had to be amputated twice a fall from a tree

Call for inquiry into why a 17-year old boy had to be amputated twice a fall from a tree

Last weekend, together with the DAP MP for Ipoh, Sdr Lim Cho Hock and the DAP State Assemblymen for Gopeng, Sdr P.Patto, I visited the Ipoh General Hospital to see a 17-year old boy from Jalong New Village, Sungei Siput, Leong Choon Hwa, who was injured and hospitalised on 13.8.1977.

The boy was not attended to by a doctor until some three hours after he was brought to the hospital on 13.8.1977. Continue reading Call for inquiry into why a 17-year old boy had to be amputated twice a fall from a tree

The unauthorised higher bus fare by Sri Jaya a open defiance of the government: DAP wants immediate action

The unauthorised higher bus fare by Sri Jaya a open defiance of the government: DAP wants immediate action

The increase in bus fares by Sri Jaya bus company in PJ and Kuala Lumpur is an open defiance of the government, and if stern and immediate action is not taken, similar defiant actions will be taken by bus companies throughout the country – causing untold hardships and in-convenience to low-income commuters and school children.

The reasons given by Sri Jaya that the increase was not an “increase” but merely an “adjustment”, and that it was all a mistake is completely unacceptable. Continue reading The unauthorised higher bus fare by Sri Jaya a open defiance of the government: DAP wants immediate action

Lim Kit Siang calls for full public inquiry into the police shoot-out in the heart of Ipoh town

Lim Kit Siang calls for full public inquiry into the police shoot-out in the heart of Ipoh town on August 13, and asks for a meeting with Inspector-General of Police, Tan Sri Haniff Omar

Last weekend, when I was in Ipoh, I found the general Ipoh public very agitated and angry about the indiscriminate police public shooting in the heart of Ipoh town on August 13 of police escapees causing three deaths and one serious injury.

Wherever I went in Ipoh, the members of the public came up to me to register their revulsion and strong reaction against the police handling of the incident – although the incident took place two weeks previously. Continue reading Lim Kit Siang calls for full public inquiry into the police shoot-out in the heart of Ipoh town

DAP wants an urgent Master Plan to revolutionise public transportation and provide fast, efficient and cheap bus services throughout the country

Speech by Ketua Pembangkang and DAP Secretary-General, Lim Kit Siang, at the inaugural meeting of the DAP Consumers and Environmental Protection Bureau held at Petaling Jaya DAP Headquarters on Thursday, 1st Sept. 1977 at 8 p.m.

DAP wants an urgent Master Plan to revolutionise public transportation and provide fast, efficient and cheap bus services throughout the country

The DAP Consumers and Environment Protection Bureau is a new DAP bureau to specially concentrate on consumer and environmental protection. The Party expects the DAP Consumers and Environmental Protection Bureau to complement the efforts of consumer and environmental protection bodies in the country. Continue reading DAP wants an urgent Master Plan to revolutionise public transportation and provide fast, efficient and cheap bus services throughout the country

Call for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into causes of failure in 20 years of nationhood to achieve national unity

Twentieth Anniversary of National Day – MESSAGE

By ketua Pembangkang and DAP Secretary- General

Call for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into causes of failure in 20 years of nationhood to achieve national unity

Twenty years ago, on the historic occasion of Merdeka on August 31, 1957, the people held high hopes for the future, confident that Independence will not only mark the political liberation from colonial rule, but also usher in a new era of social justice and equality and the progressive advance towards a united Malaysian people. Continue reading Call for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into causes of failure in 20 years of nationhood to achieve national unity

DAP to prepare to go it alone in the next general elections in view of repeated rejection by the other opposition parties for bilateral talks

Speech by Ketua Pembangkang and DAP Secretary- General, Lim Kit Siang, to the Perak Luar Bandar (Rural) Committee at Ipoh on Sunday, 28th August 1977 at 2p.m.

DAP to prepare to go it alone in the next general elections in view of repeated rejection by the other opposition parties for bilateral talks

Last Sunday, at the meeting of DAP Negeri Sembilan State Committee meeting in Seremban, I reiterated the DAP’s invitation to the other parties to hold bilateral discussions with regard to the question of having an electoral understanding in the next general elections. Continue reading DAP to prepare to go it alone in the next general elections in view of repeated rejection by the other opposition parties for bilateral talks