Category: Chinese Culture

Liong Sik should stop turning and twisting and make a clear-out stand on the Malaysian Chinese Cultural City issue

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Monday, 13th May 1991:

Liong Sik should stop turning and twisting and make a clear-out stand on the Malaysian Chinese Cultural City issue.

MCA President, Datuk Dr. Ling Liong Sik, said yesterday that he would not publicly discuss the issue of the Malaysian Chinese Cultural City as he does not want to create a ‘scare’ among the people. Continue reading Liong Sik should stop turning and twisting and make a clear-out stand on the Malaysian Chinese Cultural City issue

Ling Liong Sik should give a clear-out statement whether MCA is abandoning the proposal for a Malaysian Chinese Cultural City or whether he is staking his position as MCA President to proceed with it

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the Penang DAP 25th Anniversary dinner held at Fortune Restaurant, Penang on Sunday, 12th May 1991 at 8 p.m.

Ling Liong Sik should give a clear-out statement whether MCA is abandoning the proposal for a Malaysian Chinese Cultural City or whether he is staking his position as MCA President to proceed with it.

The claim by the MCA National Vice Chairman and Human Resources Minister, Datuk Lim Ah Lek, that the Cabinet had imposed a ban on public discussion of the MCA proposal for a Malaysian Chinese Cultural City was again exposed to be untrue when yesterday another UMNO Minister came out in the fiercest attack so far on the proposal. Continue reading Ling Liong Sik should give a clear-out statement whether MCA is abandoning the proposal for a Malaysian Chinese Cultural City or whether he is staking his position as MCA President to proceed with it

Liong Sik may have lost the last change to build the Malaysian Chinese Cultural City when he failed to got the Cabinet to give it formal approval on Wednesday

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Saturday, 11th May 1991:

Liong Sik may have lost the last change to build the Malaysian Chinese Cultural City when he failed to got the Cabinet to give it formal approval on Wednesday.

A week ago, I advised the MCA President, Datuk Dr. Ling Liong Sik, that unless he presented the Malaysian Chinese Cultural City proposal at the Cabinet this Wednesday to get its formal approval, the pressures from UMNO leaders opposing the proposal are likely to mount until the MCA leadership would buckle under and abandon the proposal altogether. Continue reading Liong Sik may have lost the last change to build the Malaysian Chinese Cultural City when he failed to got the Cabinet to give it formal approval on Wednesday

Liong Sik should ask the ‘top UMNO leaders’ who had ‘discussed, understood and accepted’ the Malaysian Chinese Cultural City proposal to issue a directive to stop all other UMNO leaders from issuing any more statement before it gets beyond the control of MCA leadership

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary- General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Tuesday, 7th May 1991:

Liong Sik should ask the ‘top UMNO leaders’ who had ‘discussed, understood and accepted’ the Malaysian Chinese Cultural City proposal to issue a directive to stop all other UMNO leaders from issuing any more statement before it gets beyond the control of MCA leadership.

I had warned the MCA President, Datuk Ling Liong Sik, yesterday that if he does not want the Malaysian Chinese Cultural City controversy to get out of hand, and to put an immediate end to the controversy created by narrow- minded political leaders looking for issues to inflate themselves as ‘communal’ or ‘cultural heroes’, he should formally submit the proposal to the Cabinet tomorrow for official approval and make a public announcement of it. Continue reading Liong Sik should ask the ‘top UMNO leaders’ who had ‘discussed, understood and accepted’ the Malaysian Chinese Cultural City proposal to issue a directive to stop all other UMNO leaders from issuing any more statement before it gets beyond the control of MCA leadership

Why don’t Alex Lee propose that the Chinese Cultural City project should be handed to a government committee headed by Datuk Mohamed Rahmat?

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary- General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Monday, 6th May 1991:

Why don’t Alex Lee propose that the Chinese Cultural City project should be handed to a government committee headed by Datuk Mohamed Rahmat?

Gerakan Vice President and Deputy National Unity and Social Development Minister, Datuk Alex Lee, was the first non- MCA Barisan Nasional leader to declare his support for the MCA proposal for a Malaysian Chinese Cultural City. Continue reading Why don’t Alex Lee propose that the Chinese Cultural City project should be handed to a government committee headed by Datuk Mohamed Rahmat?

MCA’s concept of ‘MCA is Chinese, Chinese is MCA’ is doomed to failure so long as MCA leaders hide in UMNO constituencies to get elected into Parliament

Part II of Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the DAP 25th Anniversary Dinner organised by Triang DAP Branch in Triang on Tuesday, 23rd April 1991 at 9p.m.

MCA’s concept of ‘MCA is Chinese, Chinese is MCA’ is doomed to failure so long as MCA leaders hide in UMNO constituencies to get elected into Parliament

MCA President, Datuk Dr.Ling Liong Sik, said in Johore Bahru two days ago about the MCA’s concept of ‘MCA is Chinese, Chinese is MCA’. Continue reading MCA’s concept of ‘MCA is Chinese, Chinese is MCA’ is doomed to failure so long as MCA leaders hide in UMNO constituencies to get elected into Parliament

Kit Siang prepared to have a Three Lime meeting at MCA Headquarters to from a Joint Action Committee to Save the Chinese in Kelantan from Oppression after Liong Sik had produced proof of such oppression

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the 25th Anniversary DAP Dinner organised by Triang DAP Branch in Triang on Tuesday, 23 April 1991 at 8p.m.

Kit Siang prepared to have a Three Lime meeting at MCA Headquarters to from a Joint Action Committee to Save the Chinese in Kelantan from Oppression after Liong Sik had produced proof of such oppression

The MCA President, Datuk Dr.Ling Liong Sik, made a very serious allegation in Jorhore Bahru recently, when he said that the Chinese in Kelantan had been oppressed under the PAS-Semangat 46 State Government, and had been forced to leave the State. Continue reading Kit Siang prepared to have a Three Lime meeting at MCA Headquarters to from a Joint Action Committee to Save the Chinese in Kelantan from Oppression after Liong Sik had produced proof of such oppression

Suggest Dr.Kang Chin Seng assist Dr.Ling Liong Sik to prove at a Public Inquiry that the Chinese in Kelantan are being oppresses and forced to leave the State

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Friday, 19th April 1991:

Suggest Dr.Kang Chin Seng assist Dr.Ling Liong Sik to prove at a Public Inquiry that the Chinese in Kelantan are being oppresses and forced to leave the State

I congratulate the Gerakan for its new ‘comradeship’ with MCA, where the Gerakan National Publicity Bureau, under Dr.Kang Chin Seng, came out in swift public support of Dr.Ling Liong Sik after I challenged the MCA President to agree to the establishment of a Public Inquiry for him to prove his allegation ‘that the Chinese in Kelantan are being oppressed and forced to leave the State’. Continue reading Suggest Dr.Kang Chin Seng assist Dr.Ling Liong Sik to prove at a Public Inquiry that the Chinese in Kelantan are being oppresses and forced to leave the State

Call on Dr. Mahathir to set up a Cabinet Committee to implement the resolutions adopted by the Federation of Malaysian Hokkien Association annual meeting

Press Conference Statement (2) by Parliamentary opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang , in Penang on Wednesday, 18.9.1990 at 11.30 a.m.

Call on Dr. Mahathir to set up a Cabinet Committee to implement the resolutions adopted by the Federation of Malaysian Hokkien Association annual meeting.

When he declared open the Federation of Malaysian Hokkien Association annual meeting on Monday, the Prime Minster, Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, pledged that the Government would co-operate closely with the Federation as the Government takes the views of the Federation seriously. Continue reading Call on Dr. Mahathir to set up a Cabinet Committee to implement the resolutions adopted by the Federation of Malaysian Hokkien Association annual meeting

DAP’s door is always open to all like-minded and idealistic Malaysians regardless of race and religion to effect the great political change within the reach of Malaysians for the first time in the 33 years

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, when closing the Penang DAP genera1elections procedure seminar held at Town House Hotel, Penang on Sunday, August 5, 1990.

DAP’s door is always open to all like-minded and idealistic Malaysians regardless of race and religion to effect the great political change within the reach of Malaysians for the first time in the 33 years.

Recently, there have been press reports about Chinese educationists and activists of Chinese organisations joining the DAP Continue reading DAP’s door is always open to all like-minded and idealistic Malaysians regardless of race and religion to effect the great political change within the reach of Malaysians for the first time in the 33 years