Category: Bukit China

DAP challenges Dr. Lim Chong Eu and Dr. Lim Keng Yaik to a public debate on the Bukit China issue

Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, on the occasion of the launching of ‘walk or Jog to Save Bukit China’ in Penang on Sunday, 2nd Sept. 1984 at 8 p.m.

DAP challenges Dr. Lim Chong Eu and Dr. Lim Keng Yaik to a public debate on the Bukit China issue

I have come to launch off the first nation-wide ‘walk or Jog to Save Bukit China’ event, with the participants wearing the Save Bukit China T-shirt, to be held outside Malacca, which has three objectives: Continue reading DAP challenges Dr. Lim Chong Eu and Dr. Lim Keng Yaik to a public debate on the Bukit China issue

Call on Malacca Chief Minister not to give one version for local people and a different version for international consumption on Bukit China

Speech by Parlaimentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the end of the DAP Socialist Youth ‘Save Bukit China’ KL-Malacca Cyclethon at Bukit China, Malacca, on Sunday, 2nd Sept. 1984 at 5 p.m.

Call on Malacca Chief Minister not to give one version for local people and a different version for international consumption on Bukit China

I call on the Malacca Chief Minister, Datuk Abdul Rahim Thamby Cik, to be consistent, and not to give one yersion for the local people and a different version for international consumption on the Bukit China issue. Continue reading Call on Malacca Chief Minister not to give one version for local people and a different version for international consumption on Bukit China

The Malaysian Chinese community should unite to plan for the development, not for the commercial purpose of turning it into a housing and commercial centre, but into a tourist, religious, historic and cultural centre after the Malacca State Government had abandoned its plan to forcibly level and develop it

Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at a Press Conference in Malacca on Saturday, 25th August 1984 at 11 a.m.

The Malaysian Chinese community should unite to plan for the development, not for the commercial purpose of turning it into a housing and commercial centre, but into a tourist, religious, historic and cultural centre after the Malacca State Government had abandoned its plan to forcibly level and develop it

Yesterday’s inauguration of the weekly Save Bukit China ‘Walk or Jog at Bukit China’ every Friday at 5.30 p.m. and its completion without any police interference is a victory for the principle that the Police have no right to obstruct Malaysian from walking or jogging at Bukit China. Continue reading The Malaysian Chinese community should unite to plan for the development, not for the commercial purpose of turning it into a housing and commercial centre, but into a tourist, religious, historic and cultural centre after the Malacca State Government had abandoned its plan to forcibly level and develop it

DAP deplore Malacca State Government action in writing to Cheng Hoon Teng Temple on the Chief Minister’s ‘optionless’ three-proposals to level and develop Bukit China

Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, on the occasion of the inaugural Weekly ‘Walk or Jog to Save Bukit China’ every Friday held at Bukit China, Malacca on Friday, 24th August 1984 at 5.30 p.m.

DAP deplore Malacca State Government action in writing to Cheng Hoon Teng Temple on the Chief Minister’s ‘optionless’ three-proposals to level and develop Bukit China

The DAP deplores the Malacca State Government’s action in writing to Cheng Hoon Teng Temple on the Malacca Chief Minister’s ‘optionless’ three proposals to level and develop 80 per cent of Bukit China and turn it into a housing commercial centre. Continue reading DAP deplore Malacca State Government action in writing to Cheng Hoon Teng Temple on the Chief Minister’s ‘optionless’ three-proposals to level and develop Bukit China

DAP deplores Malacca Police over-reaction in total mobilisation of police personnel, including FRU/ and police officers posted for court duties, as if facing a riot situation when all that was happening was a ‘Walk or Jog at Bukit China’

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in DAP PJ Headquarters on Monday, 20th August 1984 at 12 noon

DAP deplores Malacca Police over-reaction in total mobilisation of police personnel, including FRU/ and police officers posted for court duties, as if facing a riot situation when all that was happening was a ‘Walk or Jog at Bukit China’

The DAP strongly deplores the Malacca Police over-reaction yesterday in total mobilisation of police personnel, including fully-armed FRU squads as well as police personnel posted for court duties, as if facing a riot situation when all that was happening was a ‘Walk or Jog’ at Bukit China by those who are concerned for the preservation of Bukit China as a national heritage. Continue reading DAP deplores Malacca Police over-reaction in total mobilisation of police personnel, including FRU/ and police officers posted for court duties, as if facing a riot situation when all that was happening was a ‘Walk or Jog at Bukit China’

DAP offers to halt the ‘Save Bukit China’ campaign immediately once the Malacca State Chief Minister renounces the State Government’s plan to forcibly level and develop Bukit China

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the National Conference of national state officials of ‘Save Bukit China’ DAP Committees held in Malacca on Sunday, 19.8.1984 at 11 a.m.

DAP offers to halt the ‘Save Bukit China’ campaign immediately once the Malacca State Chief Minister renounces the State Government’s plan to forcibly level and develop Bukit China, and fully respect the Chinese community’s decision on whether and how to develop

The DAP has been accused by many quarters, including the Gerakan Penang State Chief Minister, Dr. Lim Chong Eu and the Gerakn President, Dr. Lim Keng Yaik, of arousing ‘racial feelings’ in the Save Bukit China campaign, but nobody dared to point a finger at the Malacca Chief Minister, Datuk Seri Abdul Rahim Thamby Cik, for trampling on the sensitivities of the people, and in particular the Chinese community, in wanting to forcibly level and develop Bukit China. Continue reading DAP offers to halt the ‘Save Bukit China’ campaign immediately once the Malacca State Chief Minister renounces the State Government’s plan to forcibly level and develop Bukit China

Challenge to Chan Teck Chan and Ng Peng Huay to explain why they are co-ordinating closely with the Malacca Chief Minister to force the people to accept the Chief Minister’s Bukit China proposals?

Press Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Malacca on Friday, 17th August 1984:

Challenge to Chan Teck Chan and Ng Peng Huay to explain why they are co-ordinating closely with the Malacca Chief Minister to force the people to accept the Chief Minister’s Bukit China proposals?

On Wednesday, the Malacca Chief Minister, Datuk Seri Abdul Rahim Thamby Cik, said that he would not be subject to pressure on the Bukit China issue, and that the government was committed to do what it thought was good for the people. Continue reading Challenge to Chan Teck Chan and Ng Peng Huay to explain why they are co-ordinating closely with the Malacca Chief Minister to force the people to accept the Chief Minister’s Bukit China proposals?

The more Lee Kim Sai talks about Bukit China, the more he show his ignorance – why is he now ‘last to know, last to be aware?’

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at a Press Conference in Malacca on Wednesday, 15.8.1984 at 11 a.m.

The more Lee Kim Sai talks about Bukit China, the more he show his ignorance – why is he now ‘last to know, last to be aware?’

In the New Straits Times today, Datuk Lee Kim Sai urged me to spell out the DAP’s plans for solving the Bukit China issue instead of ‘shouting slogans everywhere’. Continue reading The more Lee Kim Sai talks about Bukit China, the more he show his ignorance – why is he now ‘last to know, last to be aware?’

Call on Tan Koon Swan to deny that he got the idea of ‘the Chinese community do not have development right in Bukit China’ from Chan Teck Chan, who got it from the Malacca Chief Minister

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Malacca on Tuesday, 14.8.1984 at 11.30 a.m.

Call on Tan Koon Swan to deny that he got the idea of ‘the Chinese community do not have development right in Bukit China’ from Chan Teck Chan, who got it from the Malacca Chief Minister.

In attending the August-8, 3,000 People Dinner of the Tan Koon Swan MCA Malacca faction, Tan Koon Swan had done the Chinese community two great harm: Continue reading Call on Tan Koon Swan to deny that he got the idea of ‘the Chinese community do not have development right in Bukit China’ from Chan Teck Chan, who got it from the Malacca Chief Minister

Call on people of Malacca to produce 50,000 signatures in the 200,000 ‘Save Bukit China’ Mass Signature Campaign to Save Bukit China

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the fifth meeting of the Malacca DAP State ‘Save Bukit China’ Committee at Malacca DAP premises on Tuesday, 14.8.1984 at 8 p.m.

Call on people of Malacca to produce 50,000 signatures in the 200,000 ‘Save Bukit China’ Mass Signature Campaign to Save Bukit China

The ‘Save Bukit China’ mass signature campaign launched by the DAP is a nation-wide campaign, to get the support of Malaysians of all races, religions and in all States, to preserve the 500-year-old symbol of the first Sino-Malay co-operation and friendship in Malaysia as a national heritage, and to protect the cultural roots and the historic contribution of the Chinese to the building of present-day Malaysia. Continue reading Call on people of Malacca to produce 50,000 signatures in the 200,000 ‘Save Bukit China’ Mass Signature Campaign to Save Bukit China