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Why has the Penang State Government rejected the Penang Conservation Bill which it had commissioned the Penang Heritage Trust to draft?

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjong, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Tuesday, January 25th, 1994:

Why has the Penang State Government rejected the Penang Conservation Bill which it had commissioned the Penang Heritage Trust to draft?

Penang Chief Minister , Dr. Koh Tsu Koon , said at the launching of Koon Su Nin ‘s book , “streets of George Town , Penang “ on Sunday that the State Government would adopt the proposed Conservation Act of the Federal Government. Continue reading Why has the Penang State Government rejected the Penang Conservation Bill which it had commissioned the Penang Heritage Trust to draft?

The 12th term of reference for the Public Inquiry into the Hotel Metropole scandals of the MPPP

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, Dap Secretary- General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang , the DAP Tanjong 3 committee held on Tuesday , January 25, 1993 at 8pm.

The 12th term of reference for the Public Inquiry into the Hotel Metropole scandals of the MPPP

DAP had called for a public Inquiry into the Hotel Metropole scandals of the MPPP , and spell out eleven terms of reference for the Public Inquiry Commission to investigate and report to the people of Penang. Continue reading The 12th term of reference for the Public Inquiry into the Hotel Metropole scandals of the MPPP

DAP CEC decides that the party withdraws from Gagasan Rakyat

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjong, Lim Kit Siang,in Petaling Jaya on Wednesday, January 25, 1995:

DAP CEC decides that the party withdraws from Gagasan Rakyat

The DAP Central Executive Committee at its meeting in Petaling Jaya headquarters last night decided that the DAP withdraw from the Gagasan Rakyat. Continue reading DAP CEC decides that the party withdraws from Gagasan Rakyat

The February 1 Penang DAP ceramah at the Penang Chinese Town Hall next Tuesday will be converted into a DAP Public Debate with Koh Tsu Koon and Tan Gim Hwa on the Hotel Metropole and Taman Midlands scandals

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjong, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Monday , January 24th, 1994:

The February 1 Penang DAP ceramah at the Penang Chinese Town Hall next Tuesday will be converted into a DAP Public Debate with Koh Tsu Koon and Tan Gim Hwa on the Hotel Metropole and Taman Midlands scandals.

The February 1 Penang DAP ceramah at the Penang Chinese Town Hall next Tuesday will be converted into a DAP Public Debate with Koh Tsu Koon and Tan Gim Hwa on the Hotel Metropole and Taman Midlands scandals. Continue reading The February 1 Penang DAP ceramah at the Penang Chinese Town Hall next Tuesday will be converted into a DAP Public Debate with Koh Tsu Koon and Tan Gim Hwa on the Hotel Metropole and Taman Midlands scandals

The international community should seriously consider removing Boutros Boutros – Ghali as UN secretary – general it he is not prepared to implement UN Security council resolution and order air strikes against the Serbian guns in Bosnia

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjong, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Sunday , January 23th, 1994:

The international community should seriously consider removing Boutros Boutros – Ghali as UN secretary – general it he is not prepared to implement UN Security council resolution and order air strikes against the Serbian guns in Bosnia

The latest news of continuing carnage and atrocities form Bosnia-Herzegovina is that six children were killed and three seriously wounded in Serb-besieged sarajevi yesterday as two mortar bombs into their hilly residential district one kilometer from Serb lines. Continue reading The international community should seriously consider removing Boutros Boutros – Ghali as UN secretary – general it he is not prepared to implement UN Security council resolution and order air strikes against the Serbian guns in Bosnia

Securities Commission should hold a public inquiry into the manipulation of the KLSE and the 15 percent plunge after Daim Zauniddin‘s ‘Get Out Now’ report

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjong, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Sunday , January 23th, 1994:

Securities Commission should hold a public inquiry into the manipulation of the KLSE and the 15 percent plunge after Daim Zauniddin ‘s ‘Get Out Now’ report

Government economic adviser , Tun Daim Zainuddin , yesterday blamed the star for causing panic selling on the Kuala Lumpur Stock exchange two weeks ago , and said that the Star had ‘irresponsibly “ used a misleading heading in its report which caused the panic selling”. Continue reading Securities Commission should hold a public inquiry into the manipulation of the KLSE and the 15 percent plunge after Daim Zauniddin‘s ‘Get Out Now’ report

The Hotel Metropole demolition scandal is different form the Donybrook and Lin Radio cases because the Gerakan dimension caises grave questions about propriety and integrity

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjong, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Sunday , January 23th, 1994:

The Hotel Metropole demolition scandal is different form the Donybrook and Lin Radio cases because the Gerakan dimension caises grave questions about propriety and integrity

Both the penang Chief Minister Dr. Koh tsu Koon and the MPPP President Datuk Tan Gim Hwa seem to be acting in concert in wanting to give the people the impression that the demolition of Hotel Metropole is not so serious , outrageous and scandalous in view of the two earlier cases of demolition of heritage buildings in George Town. Continue reading The Hotel Metropole demolition scandal is different form the Donybrook and Lin Radio cases because the Gerakan dimension caises grave questions about propriety and integrity

DAP calls on Government to issues white Paper as to whether there was an “aid for arms” deal between Malaysia and the United Kingdom involving the RM 1.8 billion Pergau Dam project and the RM 5 billion Malaysian arms purchases from Britain

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjong, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Saturday , January 22th, 1994:

DAP calls on Government to issues white Paper as to whether there was an “aid for arms”‘ deal between Malaysia and the United Kingdom involving the RM 1.8 billion Pergau Dam project and the RM 5 billion Malaysian arms purchases from Britain

The United Kingdom press are still reverberating from the testimony at a top British civil Servant to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) at the House at Commons on Tuesday that British Prime Minister John Major gave the tinal go -ahead for the aid for arms deal between Malaysia and the United Kingdom involving the RM 1.8 billion Pergau and project and the RM 5 billion Malaysian arms purchases from Britain. Continue reading DAP calls on Government to issues white Paper as to whether there was an “aid for arms” deal between Malaysia and the United Kingdom involving the RM 1.8 billion Pergau Dam project and the RM 5 billion Malaysian arms purchases from Britain

Did the new owners of Hotel Metropole submit an appeal to rebuild only the façade and not the entire building, and if not why was the MPPP order to rebuild the entire Hotel Metropole in six months transformed in nine short days into an order to merely rebuild its façade

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjong, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Saturday , January 22th, 1994:

Did the new owners of Hotel Metropole submit an appeal to rebuild only the façade and not the entire building, and if not why was the MPPP order to rebuild the entire Hotel Metropole in six months transformed in nine short days into an order to merely rebuild its façade.

In the past one month, three questions are uppermost in the minds of the people of Penang about the Hotel Metropole demolition scandal . They are: Continue reading Did the new owners of Hotel Metropole submit an appeal to rebuild only the façade and not the entire building, and if not why was the MPPP order to rebuild the entire Hotel Metropole in six months transformed in nine short days into an order to merely rebuild its façade

Non – Aligned Movement should form the nucleus to requisition an emergency UN General Assembly session on the Bosnia Holocaust to override and end the impotence of the United Nations Security council and UN Secretary – General

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjong, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Friday , January 21th, 1994:

Non – Aligned Movement should form the nucleus to requisition an emergency UN General Assembly session on the Bosnia Holocaust to override and end the impotence of the United Nations Security council and UN Secretary – General

The latest round of Geneva pence talks on Bosnia Herregovina has ended in a farce with no effect whatsoever on the Bosnia battlefield as the 21-month agony of the Bosnian Holocaust continued unabated. Continue reading Non – Aligned Movement should form the nucleus to requisition an emergency UN General Assembly session on the Bosnia Holocaust to override and end the impotence of the United Nations Security council and UN Secretary – General