Category: Bukit China

Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, on the launching of the 200,000 ‘Save Bukit China’ Mass Signature Campaign in Selangor State at Klang on Monday, 13.8.1984 at 8 p.m.

DAP shocked by Gerakan President, Dr. Lim Keng Yaik, has endorsed Dr. Lim Chong Eu’s action in trying to sabotage the 200,000 ‘Save Bukit China’ Mass Signature Campaign

Today’s press (Sing Pin Jih Pao) reported the Gerakan President, Dr. Lim Keng Yaik, as criticising the 200,000 Save Bukit China mass signature campaign as only capable of ‘arousing racial sensitivities’. Continue reading DAP shocked by Gerakan President, Dr. Lim Keng Yaik, has endorsed Dr. Lim Chong Eu’s action in trying to sabotage the 200,000 ‘Save Bukit China’ Mass Signature Campaign

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the launching of the ‘Save Bukit China’ 200,000 mass signature campaign and Sale of ‘Save Bukit China’ T-shirts in the Federal Territory at Pudu Market, Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, 11th August 1984 at 8.30 a.m.

Datuk Lee Kim Sai should keep quiet if he knows nothing about the Bukit China issue instead of showing his ignorance

Datuk Lee Kim Sai has created the image that he is ‘Chinese saviour No.2’ after Tan Koon Swan in the battle for MCA power against Neo Yee Pan and group. But Datuk Lee Kim Sai’s speech on the Bukit China issue in the August-8 3,000 People Dinner in Malacca was as ignorant and ridiculous as that given by Tan Koon Swan. Continue reading Datuk Lee Kim Sai should keep quiet if he knows nothing about the Bukit China issue instead of showing his ignorance

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Malacca on Friday, 10.8.1984 at 11 a.m

Call on Tan Koon Swan to apologise to the Chinese community for his own irresponsibility as well as the anti-Chinese community stand of the Tan Koon Swan MCA Malacca faction over the entire Bukit China issue

All Malaysian Chinese must be shocked by the press interview given by Tan Koon Swan after his speech at the so-called August 8 ‘5,000-People’ dinner at Pay Fong Chinese Independent Secondary School in Malacca on Wednesday night. Continue reading Call on Tan Koon Swan to apologise to the Chinese community for his own irresponsibility as well as the anti-Chinese community stand of the Tan Koon Swan MCA Malacca faction over the entire Bukit China issue

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Seremban on Wednesday, August 8, 1984 at 9 a.m. after launching the ‘Save Bukit China’ mass signature campaign and sell ‘Save Bukit China T-shirts’ at the Seremban Central Market

Call on Malaysians of all races and religions to makes the ‘Save Bukit China’ mass signature campaign the most memorable and successful in Malaysian history

I am here in Seremban this morning to officially launch the ‘Save Bukit China’ Mass Signature Campaign in Negri Sembilan, the second state after Malacca. The purpose is to preserve Bukit China as a national heritage for all Malaysians regardless of race or religion. Continue reading Call on Malaysians of all races and religions to makes the ‘Save Bukit China’ mass signature campaign the most memorable and successful in Malaysian history

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, LIM KIT SIANG, in Penang on Thursday, 2/8/1984 at 11.30 a.m.

Call on Datuk Harris Salleh to publicly disclose all the companies on which he was director when he was Chief Minister.

The DAP have so far publicly disclosed, backed up with documentary proof from the Registry of Company records, that the Sabah Chief Minister, Datuk Harris Salleh, had breached the Sabah State Constitution which prohibited the Chief Minister from taking active part in commercial entreprise, in at least three companies namely DUA BERSAUDARA SDN. BHD., EMPAT BERSAUDARI SDN. BHD., and SEJATI SDN. BHD. Continue reading Call on Datuk Harris Salleh to publicly disclose all the companies on which he was director when he was Chief Minister

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Wednesday, 1.8.1984 at 12 noon

Ten Reasons Why Bukit China in Malacca should be preserved as a national heritage for all Malaysians

I am calling this press conference to announce the formation of the Penang DAP State Savo Bukit China Committee, and to urge the people of Penang to join in the national movement to save Bukit China in Malacca. Continue reading Ten Reasons Why Bukit China in Malacca should be preserved as a national heritage for all Malaysians

The Malacca Bukit China Declaration

Adopted by the ‘Save Bukit China’ Public Ceramah held at Pay Fong Chinese Independent Secondary School on Saturday, July 28, 1984 Continue reading The Malacca Bukit China Declaration

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the DAP ‘Save Bukit China’ Public Ceramah held at Pay Fong Chinese Independent Secondary School on Saturday, 28th July 1984 at 8pm

DAP to launch a ‘Save Bukit China’ mass signature campaign to oppose any form of government development of Bukit China or deprivation of the rights of Chinese community for self-determination on Bukit China

On 23rd July 1984, the Malacca Chief Minister, Abdul Rahim Thamby Ciik, reiterated the State Government’s plan to level and develop Bukit China into a housing and commercial centre, although he made three proposals as to how such levelling and development of Bukit China could be carried out. Continue reading DAP to launch a ‘Save Bukit China’ mass signature campaign to oppose any form of government development of Bukit China or deprivation of the rights of Chinese community for self-determination on Bukit China

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Mp for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, In Petaling Jaya on Thursday, July 26, 1984:

Call on Tan Koon Swan and Lee Kim Sai to stay away from the 5,000-People August 8 Dinner in Malacca to express support for State Government plan to develop Bukit China

When on Thursday the Tan Koon Swan faction Assemblyman in Malacca, Ng Peng Huay, branded the Cheng Hoon Teng trustees as ‘pengkhianat bangsa’ – ‘traitors of the race’ – on the Bukit China issue, he also announced a national campaign led by Tan Koon Swan and Lee Kim Sai to support the Malacca Chief Minister’s development plan for Bukit China as announced in the Malacca State Assembly on Monday, 23rd July 1984. Continue reading Call on Tan Koon Swan and Lee Kim Sai to stay away from the 5,000-People August 8 Dinner in Malacca to express support for State Government plan to develop Bukit China

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Malacca on Wednesday, 25.7.1984 at 11a.m.:

Call on Tan Koon Swan and Lee Kim Sai to order their MCA faction, and in particular Chan Teck Chan and Ng Peng Huay, to stop their plot to destroy and discredit Cheng Hoon Teng and to apologise for branding the Cheng Hoon Teng trustees as ‘Chinese traitors’

Yesterday, following on the Chief Minister’s announcement of the State Government’s intention to proceed with the decision to level and develop Bukit China as originally planned, the ‘Level and Develop Bukit China faction’ had launched immediately into supporting action with a three-prong attack, aimed primarily at discrediting Cheng Hoon Teng and destroying both its legal and moral authority as the trustees of Bukit China. Continue reading Call on Tan Koon Swan and Lee Kim Sai to order their MCA faction, and in particular Chan Teck Chan and Ng Peng Huay, to stop their plot to destroy and discredit Cheng Hoon Teng and to apologise for branding the Cheng Hoon Teng trustees as ‘Chinese traitors’