Category: Chinese Schools

DAP calls for an all-party conference to reduce politicizing education, especially Chinese education

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the Education Bill 1990 forum held at the Johore Bahru Chinese Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, 6th June 1990 at 10 a.m.

DAP calls for an all-party conference to reduce politicizing education, especially Chinese education

Recently, a favourite topic of the Education Minister, Anwar Ibrahim is his accusation that educational issues, whether the education reforms proposed under the Education Bill 1990 or the question of Chinese education and Chinese primary schools, had been politicized. Continue reading DAP calls for an all-party conference to reduce politicizing education, especially Chinese education

DAP calls for a new education policy of an Federal Government grant of $200,000 a year, and annual State Government grant of $100,000 a year, for every Independent Chinese Secondary school

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-¬General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the DAP Education Bill 1990 Ceramah held at Bukit Mertajam at the Hokkien Association Hall on Thursday, May 31, 1990 at 9 p.m

DAP calls for a new education policy of an Federal Government grant of $200,000 a year, and annual State Government grant of $100,000 a year, for every Independent Chinese Secondary school

The use of the Official Secret Act by the Education Minister, Anwar lbrahim, to prevent publication of the Education Bill 1990 can only reinforce widespread suspicion that the Barisan National Government would not allow ample time for the public to study it or to enable a full and informed nation-wide public debate before it is forced through Parliament. Continue reading DAP calls for a new education policy of an Federal Government grant of $200,000 a year, and annual State Government grant of $100,000 a year, for every Independent Chinese Secondary school

The person who fears most if there is a second Tien Hou Temple meeting on the Chinese primary schools will be Ong Tin Kin of Gerakan

Speech (Part II) by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Slang, at the DAP Ceramah at Teluk Tntan Town Hall on ‘Tuesday, May 29, 1990 at 10 p.m.

The person who fears most if there is a second Tien Hou Temple meeting on the Chinese primary schools will be Ong Tin Kin of Gerakan

Gerakan has often boasted that under the Operation Lallang in 1987, on of its leaders, the Gerakan Parliamentary Secretary and MP for Teluk Intan, Ong Tin Kin, was also detained, although he was released after one month and was never formally detained at the Kamunting Detention Centre. Continue reading The person who fears most if there is a second Tien Hou Temple meeting on the Chinese primary schools will be Ong Tin Kin of Gerakan

Call on Chinese community to be vigilant of the traditional ‘three steps forward, one step backward’ stance in the Education Bill 1990

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the Perak DAP Ceramah on the Education Bill 1990 held at Chin Woo Athletic Hall, Ipoh on Tuesday, 22nd May 1990 at 8 p.m.

Call on Chinese community to be vigilant of the traditional ‘three steps forward, one step backward’ stance in the Education Bill 1990

Education Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, said yesterday that he could not understand why the Chinese community insist on maintaining Boards of Management of ‘fully-aided’ Chinese primary schools when they are ‘empty and hollow’, as they do not have any real administrative powers, such as appointment of teachers. Continue reading Call on Chinese community to be vigilant of the traditional ‘three steps forward, one step backward’ stance in the Education Bill 1990

Chinese community must be vigilant to ensure that the Boards of Management furore is not a Barisan ‘smoke-screen’ to hide other provisions detrimental to Chinese education

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Sunday, 20th May 1990:

Chinese community must be vigilant to ensure that the Boards of Management furore is not a Barisan ‘smoke-screen’ to hide other provisions detrimental to Chinese education

The Chinese community and all concerned about mother-tongue education must be vigilant to ensure that the current furore over the Barisan Nasional’s proposal to abolish the Boards of Management of 432 ‘fully-aided’ Chinese primary schools is not a smokescreen to hide other provisions in the 1990 Education Bill which highly detrimental to Chinese education. Continue reading Chinese community must be vigilant to ensure that the Boards of Management furore is not a Barisan ‘smoke-screen’ to hide other provisions detrimental to Chinese education

Anwar said that he would give DAP MPs a briefing on the Education Bill 1990 after it has been finalize

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Party Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the DAP Education Bill 1990 Ceramah at Wah Chai Association Hall in Seremban on Tuesday, 5th June at 8 pm

Anwar said that he would give DAP MPs a briefing on the Education Bill 1990 after it has been finalized.

When I met the Education Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, in Kuala Lumpur at Pusat Islam last Friday during the lying-in-state ceremony of the late Tun Hussein Onn, Malaysia’s third Prime Minister, I asked him why he had not responded to my fax two weeks earlier asking for an immediate and urgent briefing for DAP MPs on the Education Bill 1990. Continue reading Anwar said that he would give DAP MPs a briefing on the Education Bill 1990 after it has been finalize

Call on UMNO to head the IGP’s advice and cancel the UMNO Rally on Nov. 1 so as not to inflame racial feelings

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 1987:

Call on UMNO to head the IGP’s advice and cancel the UMNO Rally on Nov. 1 so as not to inflame racial feelings.

DAP welcomes the call by the Inspector-General of Police, Tan Sri Haniff Omar, that to prevent “further aggravation” of the present situation in the country, there should be no more rallies, demonstrations or meetings “which are likely to be interpreted as being racial in character.” Continue reading Call on UMNO to head the IGP’s advice and cancel the UMNO Rally on Nov. 1 so as not to inflame racial feelings

Is UMNO Youth trying to create a May 13, 1969 mood that Anwar Ibrahim talked about before National Day

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the DAP MPs and Assemblymen conference held at Parliament House on Sunday, Oct. 18, 1987 at 10 am.

Is UMNO Youth trying to create a May 13, 1969 mood that Anwar Ibrahim talked about before National Day.

Before National Day, Anwar Ibrahim, the UMNO National Vice Preseident and Education Minister, said there was May 13, 1969 mood in the country. I did not agree, although racial polarisation was getting from bad to worse. Continue reading Is UMNO Youth trying to create a May 13, 1969 mood that Anwar Ibrahim talked about before National Day

Anwar Ibrahim’s statement that the Chinese primary schools promotion issue could not be resolved by Dec. 31 shows that the assurances of MCA and Gerakan Ministers to Chinese Organisations/Political Parties Joint Action Committed to cancel schools boycott is empty and hollow

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Saturday, October 17, 1987:

Anwar Ibrahim’s statement that the Chinese primary schools promotion issue could not be resolved by Dec. 31 shows that the assurances of MCA and Gerakan Ministers to Chinese Organisations/Political Parties Joint Action Committed to cancel schools boycott is empty and hollow.

Education Minister, Anwar Ibrahim’s statement at Subang airport last night that he did not think the Chinese schools promotion issue could be resolved by Dec.31 this year has shown how empty and hollow were the assurances Joint Action Committee to get the three-day schools boycott postponed. Continue reading Anwar Ibrahim’s statement that the Chinese primary schools promotion issue could not be resolved by Dec. 31 shows that the assurances of MCA and Gerakan Ministers to Chinese Organisations/Political Parties Joint Action Committed to cancel schools boycott is empty and hollow

DAP proposes amendment to the 1961 Education Act to give Board of Management the right to object to promotions and transfers of teachers which would affect the character of Chinese primary school as an effective solution to the present educational crisis

Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at Masjid Tanah, Malacca, at the first stop in tour of Chinese primary schools affected by promotion exercise of non-Chinese educated teachers conducting a three-day schools boycott, on Thursday, 15.10.1987 at 7.30 a.m.

DAP proposes amendment to the 1961 Education Act to give Board of Management the right to object to promotions and transfers of teachers which would affect the character of Chinese primary school as an effective solution to the present educational crisis.

The national educational crisis marked by a three0day school boycott of 46 Chinese primary schools in Malacca, Penang, Selangor and Federal Territory should be seriously dealt with by the Barisan Nasional Government, if the country’s economic recovery efforts are not to be derailed by insensitive government actions in the other fields of language, education, culture and religion. Continue reading DAP proposes amendment to the 1961 Education Act to give Board of Management the right to object to promotions and transfers of teachers which would affect the character of Chinese primary school as an effective solution to the present educational crisis