Category: Development

DAP calls on Agriculture Ministers, Datuk Shariff Ahmad, to take two urgent measures to help fishermen in Pulau Ketam and Klang Pantei

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, on Tuesday, 14th August 1979:

DAP calls on Agriculture Ministers, Datuk Shariff Ahmad, to take two urgent measures to help fishermen in Pulau Ketam and Klang Pantei to make a decent livelihood: (1) to issue licensees to legalise the 1,500 trawler fishermen in Pulau Ketam; and (2) to amend the Fisheries Regulations on making of new fishing boats

For the 10,000 people on Pulau Ketam, fishing is their sole means of livelihood. The fishermen are also making an important contribution, not only to the economy of the country, but also to the health of the people. Continue reading DAP calls on Agriculture Ministers, Datuk Shariff Ahmad, to take two urgent measures to help fishermen in Pulau Ketam and Klang Pantei

DAP calls for public inquiry into Port Klang operations to turn it from the ‘Black port of South East Asia” into an efficient and leading port in Asia

Speech by Ketua Pembangkang and DAP Secretary-General, Lim Kit Siang, to the DAP Consumers and Environment Protection Bureau at DAP Headquarters on Wednesday, 21st Sept. 1977 at 8 p.m.

DAP calls for public inquiry into Port Klang operations to turn it from the ‘Black port of South East Asia” into an efficient and leading port in Asia

For two months, the Port Klang authorities have not been able to clear the thousands of containers jammed in the Port, causing Malaysia to lose millions of dollars of revenue, and the by-passing of Port Klang by shipping lines. Continue reading DAP calls for public inquiry into Port Klang operations to turn it from the ‘Black port of South East Asia” into an efficient and leading port in Asia

Hari Raya Puasa Message

HARI RAYA PUASA message by Ketua Pembangkang and DAP Secretary-General, Lim Kit Siang, on 14.9.1977:

Hari Raya Puasa Message

I wish all Muslims in Malaysia Selamat Hari Raya Puasa. Malaysia has been Merdeka for 20 years, and a new generation of Malaysians have grown up, celebrating Hari Raya Puasa without memories of political colonialism.

However, economic colonialism is still all-pervasive in our economy and country, as evident by the dominance and monopoly of foreign capital in Malaysian economy. Continue reading Hari Raya Puasa Message

LABOUR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

Speech by the DAP MP for Kuala Lumpur Bandar, Mr. Lee Lam Thye when debating the estimates for the MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND POWER in Parliament on 8th December, 1976.

LABOUR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

(a) DAP calls for further amendments to the Industrial Relations Act to protect the interest of Malaysian workers.

On the subject of Labour and Industrial Relations, I wish to refer to the Industrial Relation Act 1967. Continue reading LABOUR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

Call on Ministry of Finance to review its tender policies which is wasting taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars a year

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Ketua Pembangkang, Lim Kit Siang,at the DAP Tenth Anniversary Territory DAP State
Sub-Committee at 63-D, Jalan Sultan, Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, 3rd october, 1976 at 8.00 p.m.

Call on Ministry of Finance to review its tender policies which is wasting taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

The government has pleaded its inability to pay as one of the reasons why it needs six months to study at greater depth the Ibrahim Ali report on revision of public employee salaries. Continue reading Call on Ministry of Finance to review its tender policies which is wasting taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars a year

DAP calls for comprehensive nation-building policy reviews to make Malaysia ann attractive investment country for both foreign and local investors.

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and ketua Pembangkang, Lim Kit Siang, at the anniversary diner of the Jalan Pekeliling DAP Branch held at the Multi-Storey Car Park Restaurant, Kuala Lumpur, on Sunday, 26th September, 1976, at 8.00 p.m.
DAP calls for comprehensive nation-building policy reviews to make Malaysia ann attractive investment country for both foreign and local investors.

A week ago, the Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, said the government was prepared to amend the Industrial Co-ordination Act and the Petroleum Development Act to attract more foreign investment. Continue reading DAP calls for comprehensive nation-building policy reviews to make Malaysia ann attractive investment country for both foreign and local investors.

DAP calls for a 20-fold increase in the development expenditures for the 460 new villages under the Third Malaysia Plan

Speech by DAP Sectary-General and Ketua Pembangkang, Lim Kit Siang, at the Ampang DAP Branch, Kuala Lumpur, on Sunday, 22nd August 1976 at 7.30 p.m.

DAP calls for a 20-fold increase in the development expenditures for the 460 new villages under the Third Malaysia Plan to (i) make up for the neglect of development needs of new villages for one generation and (ii) to bring the new villages fully into the mainstream of national development

The Third Malaysia Plan 1976-1980 provides for only $19 million for development of the 460 new villages for the next five years.

This is a paltry sum as it works out to the ridiculous figure of $10000 per new village per year. Continue reading DAP calls for a 20-fold increase in the development expenditures for the 460 new villages under the Third Malaysia Plan

The Malaysian Dilemma

Speech by Ketua Pembangkang and DAP Secretary-General, Lim Kit Siang, at a forum on “The Role of Malaysian Chinese can play under the Third Malaysia Plan” organised by the Persatuan Mahasiswa Taiwan Normal Universiti, Selangor, at Hotel Equatorial, Kuala Lumpur, on Thursday, 12th August 1976 at 7.30 p.m.

The Malaysian Dilemma

Probably without consciously realising or intending it, the topic of your forum reflects accurately the dilemma of Malaysian Chinese, and in fact, of all non-Malay in Malaysia.

The topic in fact asks two questions which Malaysian Chinese and non-Malays have been asking themselves: Continue reading The Malaysian Dilemma

DAP calls on the Ministry of Education to draw up a master plan under the Third Malaysia Plan

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Ketua Pembangkang, Lim Kit Siang, at the 10th Anniversary Dinner organized by the Kuala Lumpur DAP Branch in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, 8th August 1976 at 8 p.m.

DAP calls on the Ministry of Education to draw up a master plan under the Third Malaysia Plan to improve the facilities, build new classes and schools and to raise the standard of education in Chinese and Ta mil primary schools through increased allocations

In recent years, there has been a sharp increase in the enrolment of pupils especially for Chinese primary schools. This marked increase of enrolment in Chinese primary schools, however, has not been accompanied by a corresponding increase in financial allocations for Chinese primary schools to ensure that they have adequate facilities, school places and sufficient number of trained teachers to maintain a high standard of education. Continue reading DAP calls on the Ministry of Education to draw up a master plan under the Third Malaysia Plan

Failure of the Third Malaysia Plan to stop downdrift of the share market an ominous start to the TMP

The Federal Development Expenditure Estimates for 1976 amounting to $3,137 million is 50 % bigger than the estimated expenditure of $2,020 million in 1975.

It marks the first-year implementation of the Third Malaysia Plan which the Dewan Rakyat has just debated and passed.

One would normally expect that such an important occasion like the announcement and adoption of the Third Malaysia Plan, the most ambitious economic blueprint for the next five years which envisages a total investment target of $26.8 billion and public sector expenditure of $18.6 billion would be a great boost to public confidence and to the share market in particular. Continue reading Failure of the Third Malaysia Plan to stop downdrift of the share market an ominous start to the TMP