Category: Chinese Schools

Lee Kim Sai’s clarification has fully comfirmed that the CMA leadership has made the greatest concession in its 42-year party history in declaring that the existence of Chinese primary schools has no constitutional basis or guarantee.

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Friday, November 15, 1991:

Lee Kim Sai’s clarification has fully comfirmed that the CMA leadership has made the greatest concession in its 42-year party history in declaring that the existence of Chinese primary schools has no constitutional basis or guarantee.

MCA Deputy President, Datuk Lee Kim Sai accuses me of ‘breaking paragraphs and distortion’ when I pointed out that his speech in Bukit Mertajam early this week was the greatest concession of the MCA leadership in its 42-year party history when he declared that the existence of the Chinese primary schools has no constitutional basis or guarantee. Continue reading Lee Kim Sai’s clarification has fully comfirmed that the CMA leadership has made the greatest concession in its 42-year party history in declaring that the existence of Chinese primary schools has no constitutional basis or guarantee.

Second Question to Ling Liong Sik on the MCA’s greatest concession in its 42-year history in renouncing the constitutional basis and guarantee for existence of Chinese primary schools –what is UMNO’s quid pro quo?

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Thursday, November 14, 1991:

Second Question to Ling Liong Sik on the MCA’s greatest concession in its 42-year history in renouncing the constitutional basis and guarantee for existence of Chinese primary schools –what is UMNO’s quid pro quo?

The entire Malaysia nation and the Chinese community must take a very serious view of the MCA’s greatest concession in its 42-year history in renouncing the constitutional basis, foundation and guarantee for existence and continuation for Chinese primary schools. Continue reading Second Question to Ling Liong Sik on the MCA’s greatest concession in its 42-year history in renouncing the constitutional basis and guarantee for existence of Chinese primary schools –what is UMNO’s quid pro quo?

Five question for Lee Kim Sai on the 4As-2Cs issue

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Wednesday, November 13, 1991:

Five question for Lee Kim Sai on the 4As-2Cs issue

MCA Deputy President and Health Minister, Datuk Lee Kim Sai, repeated in Bukit Mertajam yesterday that he was willing to go to prison for breaching the Official Secrets Act by showing me Cabinet documents to prove that the Cabinet decided in May that Chinese primary school pupils with 4As-2Cs would be promoted automatically to Form One and inviting me to go to his Ministry to look at the Cabinet paper. Continue reading Five question for Lee Kim Sai on the 4As-2Cs issue

It is most disgraceful and dishonourable that the MCA leadership dare not tell Dr. Mahathir in Cabinet and Government the reasons why non-Chinese students do not want to study in TAR, but dare only do so in Chinese newspapers

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

It is most disgraceful and dishonourable that the MCA leadership dare not tell Dr. Mahathir in Cabinet and Government the reasons why non-Chinese students do not want to study in TAR, but dare only do so in Chinese newspapers

It is most disgraceful and dishonourable that the top MCA leadership dare not tell the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, in Cabinet and Government the reasons why non-Chinese students do not want to study in Tunku Abdul Rahman College (TAR), but dare only do so in the Chinese newspapers. Continue reading It is most disgraceful and dishonourable that the MCA leadership dare not tell Dr. Mahathir in Cabinet and Government the reasons why non-Chinese students do not want to study in TAR, but dare only do so in Chinese newspapers

Eleven Chinese Primary schools and 28 Tamil primary schools were closed down in the past 10 years

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the Buloh Kasap DAP Branch dinner to commemorate the 25th DAP Anniversary at Buloh Kasap, Segamat, on Friday, 4th October 1991 at 9 am

Eleven Chinese Primary schools and 28 Tamil primary schools were closed down in the past 10 years

I have just received an answer to a parliamentary question which I asked in the June/July meeting of Parliament and find that in the past 10 years, 11 Chinese primary schools and 28 Tamil primary schools were closed down because of shortage of pupils. Continue reading Eleven Chinese Primary schools and 28 Tamil primary schools were closed down in the past 10 years

All Chinese and Tamil primary school pupils who pass the UPSR national school Bahasa Malaysia paper should be exempted from Remove Class and promoted directly to From One if they get passes in other subjects

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Saturday, June 15, 1991:

All Chinese and Tamil primary school pupils who pass the UPSR national school Bahasa Malaysia paper should be exempted from Remove Class and promoted directly to From One if they get passes in other subjects

The Education Ministry has announced that Chinese and Tamil primary school Std.IV pupils can now opt to sit for the Bahasa Malaysia paper offered in the national schools (SK/SRK) in the Primary School Achievement Test (UPSR). Continue reading All Chinese and Tamil primary school pupils who pass the UPSR national school Bahasa Malaysia paper should be exempted from Remove Class and promoted directly to From One if they get passes in other subjects

Is Keng Yaik Saying that Anwar Ibrahim had been lying when the latter repeatedly said that the Education Minister would retain the power to close down schools although Section 21(1) of the 1961 Education Act is repealed

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Sunday, 26th August 1990:

Is Keng Yaik Saying that Anwar Ibrahim had been lying when the latter repeatedly said that the Education Minister would retain the power to close down schools although Section 21(1) of the 1961 Education Act is repealed.

Gerakan President and Primary Industry Minister, Datuk Dr. Lim Keng Yaik said yesterday that when Section 21(2) of the Education Act 1961 is repealed, the Education Minister would not have the power to close down Chinese primary schools. Continue reading Is Keng Yaik Saying that Anwar Ibrahim had been lying when the latter repeatedly said that the Education Minister would retain the power to close down schools although Section 21(1) of the 1961 Education Act is repealed

Call on Liong Sik and Kim Sai to declare whether they could individually guarantee the Chinese Community that the 1986 Barisan Nasional promise to repeal Section 21(2) of the 1961 Education Act would be fulfilled before next general election

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at Kandang Baru DAP Branch Anniversary dinner held at Kandang Baru New Village, Perak, on Tuesday, 17th July 1990 at 9 p.m.

Call on Liong Sik and Kim Sai to declare whether they could individually guarantee the Chinese Community that the 1986 Barisan Nasional promise to repeal Section 21(2) of the 1961 Education Act would be fulfilled before next general election

After two weeks of his Subang Airport announcement that he would contest for the MCA Presidency, both Lee Kim Sai and Ling Liong Sik had not been able to tell the Chinese community how each could do better than the other to protect and promote the rights of the Chinese community, the Malaysian people and the nation as a whole. Continue reading Call on Liong Sik and Kim Sai to declare whether they could individually guarantee the Chinese Community that the 1986 Barisan Nasional promise to repeal Section 21(2) of the 1961 Education Act would be fulfilled before next general election

DAP opposes the transfer of the Section 21(2) powers from the Education Minister to the Registrar-General of Schools who would have the power under the new Education Act to close down Chinese primary Schools

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the DAP Ceramah on Education Bill 1990 in Batu Pahat held at Cheng Siew Chinese primary school hall on Saturday, 9th June 1990 at 7.30 pm.

DAP opposes the transfer of the Section 21(2) powers from the Education Minister to the Registrar-General of Schools who would have the power under the new Education Act to close down Chinese primary Schools

It was reported in today’s press that the Education Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, had briefed headmasters and teachers that although Section 21(2) would be repealed, this would not mean a reduction in the powers of the Education Minister, as under the Education Bill 1990, the Registrar-General of Schools would have the power to close down schools which are against the national interest’. Continue reading DAP opposes the transfer of the Section 21(2) powers from the Education Minister to the Registrar-General of Schools who would have the power under the new Education Act to close down Chinese primary Schools

Anwar Ibrahim’s statement today contradicts Keng Yaik’s claim that the Cabinet Committee has decided that the Boards of Management of Chinese primary schools would be preserved

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Friday, June 8, 1990:

Anwar Ibrahim’s statement today contradicts Keng Yaik’s claim that the Cabinet Committee has decided that the Boards of Management of Chinese primary schools would be preserved.

The statement by the Education Minister, Anwar Ibrahim (New Straits Times 8/6/90 p.2) contradicts the claim by the Gerakan President, Datuk Dr. Lim Keng Yaik, on Tuesday that the Cabinet Committee on the Education Bill had agreed to preserve the Boards of Management of Chinese primary schools and which was given front page headline treatment by all Chinese newspapers. Continue reading Anwar Ibrahim’s statement today contradicts Keng Yaik’s claim that the Cabinet Committee has decided that the Boards of Management of Chinese primary schools would be preserved