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DAP Central Executive Committee to meet in Petaling Jaya tomorrow to discuss latest political development.

DAP Central Executive Committee to meet in Petaling Jaya tomorrow to discuss latest political development.

The DAP Central Executive Committee will meet in Petaling Jaya tomorrow, and will discuss the new government regulations on students intending to go overseas and the proposed reduction of university places by the New Zealand government.

The Central Executive Committee will also discuss the Essential (Security Cases) Regulations and the legal and political measures that have been taken to challenge it. Continue reading DAP Central Executive Committee to meet in Petaling Jaya tomorrow to discuss latest political development.

DAP Protest against reduction of New Zealand university places for Malaysian students.

DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, today issued the following statement:

DAP Protest against reduction of New Zealand university places for Malaysian students.

The DAP opposed to new government regulations to affecting Malaysian students intending to go to New Zealand and Australia for higher studies.

At a time when more and more Malaysians youths, especially non-Malays, find the doers of Malaysian universities closed to them, although they possess the requisite university entrance qualifications, any government move which will lead to further reduction of the opportunities of these Malaysian students to go abroad to further higher studies at their own expenses must be opposed and deplored. Continue reading DAP Protest against reduction of New Zealand university places for Malaysian students.

DAP to test sincerity of the Barisan National Government by proposing amendments to the Prevention of corruption Act, 1961, to weed out corruption in high places

DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, today released the following statement.

DAP to test sincerity of the Barisan National Government by proposing amendments to the Prevention of corruption Act, 1961, to weed out corruption in high places.

In defending the Essential (Security Cases) Regulations, 1975, which came under repeated attacks and criticisms during the Third Malaysian Law Conference in Kuala Lumpur, the Minister of Law and Attorney-General, Tan Sri Abdul Kadir Yusof said that at the close of the Law Conference that the new Regulations are an attempt to provide justice not only to the accused but to protect the public. Continue reading DAP to test sincerity of the Barisan National Government by proposing amendments to the Prevention of corruption Act, 1961, to weed out corruption in high places

Failures of nominated district committees to shoulder local government responsibilities

DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, today issued the following statement on his impressions after concluding a two-day visit to the Batu Gajah Parliamentary constituency:

Failures of nominated district committees to shoulder local government responsibilities

One very strong impression which I gathered in my two-day visit to the Batu Gajah Parliamentary constituency is the failures of the nominated district committees which have been set up in substitution of elected local councils to shoulder local government responsibilities. Continue reading Failures of nominated district committees to shoulder local government responsibilities

DAP to take the Barisan National Government to COURT

DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka to-day issues the following statement:

DAP to take the Barisan National Government to COURT to challenge the illegality and unconstitutionality of the Essential (Security Cases) Regulations.

The DAP has decide to take the Barisan National Government to COURT to challenge the illegality and unconstitutionality of the Essential （Security Cases） Regulations.

As I said in my initial press statement on the Essential (Security Cases) Regulation 1975 on 3rd October, 1975 I had asked the party’s legal advisers to study the illegal and unconstitutional character of the Regulations. Continue reading DAP to take the Barisan National Government to COURT

DAP calls on New Village Minister, Michael Chen, and State Government to end the red-tape, delays and government inefficiency and to issue titles to the new villagers in Kinta Valley.

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, today issued the following statement:

DAP calls on New Village Minister, Michael Chen, and State Government to end the red-tape, delays and government inefficiency and to issue titles to the new villagers in Kinta Valley.

Yesterday, on the first day of my visit to the Batu Gajah Parliamentary Constituency, I visited the Kampar State Assembly constituency in the company of the DAP M.P. for Batu Gajah, Sdr. Chian Heng Kai, the DAP State Assemblyman for Kampar, Sdr. Chan Heng Who, Malacca State Assemblyman Sdr. Bernard Sta Maria, local branch officials and members. Continue reading DAP calls on New Village Minister, Michael Chen, and State Government to end the red-tape, delays and government inefficiency and to issue titles to the new villagers in Kinta Valley.

DAP has tabled a motion in Parliament to repeal the Essential (Security Cases) Regulations 1975.

DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, today (11th Oct. 1975) issued the following statement in Kampar when starting his two-day tour of the Batu Gajah Parliamentary Constituency and the Kampar State Constituency.

DAP has tabled a motion in Parliament to repeal the Essential (Security Cases) Regulations 1975.

I have given notice to Parliament to move a motion to repeal the 1975 Essential (Security Cases) Regulations when Parliament meets from Oct. 27.

I am also writing to the Prime Minister asking that at least two full days should be set aside at the very beginning of the Parliamentary meeting to debate the motion the repeal the 1975 Essential (Security Cases) Regulations. Continue reading DAP has tabled a motion in Parliament to repeal the Essential (Security Cases) Regulations 1975.

DAP replies to Tun Razak

DAP replies to Tun Razak

The Prime Minister, Tun Razak, at the opening of the Gerekan’s extraordinary general assembly in Ipoh yesterday challenged the Opposition parties to declare their stand on the recent spate of violence in the country.

It is clear that Malaysia is facing urban guerilla warfare of increasingly serious proportions, while at the same time, the jungle guerrilla warfare is also stepping up its ferocity and intensity. Continue reading DAP replies to Tun Razak

University disciplinary rules turning the universities into barrack camps

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the meeting of the Federal Territory DAP Committee on Saturday, 27th Sept. 1975at 8.00 p.m.

University disciplinary rules turning the universities into barrack camps.

It has been announce that new university disciplinary regulations, in the form of University of Malaya (Disciplinary of Students) Rules 1975, had been turned made, and other universities would have similar disciplinary regulations.

A reading of the regulations showed that the University of Malaya and other universities have been turned from institutions of higher learning and free intellectual adventure into highly-regimented barrack camps, and which would create a new breed of pockets dictators. Continue reading University disciplinary rules turning the universities into barrack camps

Member of the public invited to complain to the DAP Headquarters about DAP MPs and SAs

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at a tea-party at Salak South DAP Branch on Saturday, 27th Sept. 1975 at 3 p.m. to mark his two-day visit to the Sungei Besi Parliamentary constituency.

1. Member of the public invited to complain to the DAP Headquarters about DAP MPs and SAs.

My visit to Sungei Besi Parliamentary constituency today and tomorrow is the first of my series of tours of all DAP Parliamentary and State Assembly constituencies over the next several months.

The purpose of this series of visits are three-fold: Continue reading Member of the public invited to complain to the DAP Headquarters about DAP MPs and SAs