Category: Ecomomic Policies

DAP calls for the establishment of a Royal Commission of Inquiry to identify and rectify the New Economic Policy injustices and inequalities which have become the chief source of national disunity

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the launching of the
Mass Signature Protest campaign against the New Economic Policy injustices and inequalities held at Sitiawan, Perak, on Thursday, July 4, l985 at 12 noon.

DAP calls for the establishment of a Royal Commission of Inquiry to identify and rectify the New Economic Policy injustices and inequalities which have become the chief source of national disunity.

The DAP is launching today a mass signature protest campaign against the New Economic Policy injustices and inequalities which have not only caused the NEP to fail in its two objectives, but have also made it the chief cause of national disunity in Malaysia. Continue reading DAP calls for the establishment of a Royal Commission of Inquiry to identify and rectify the New Economic Policy injustices and inequalities which have become the chief source of national disunity

DAP to move a motion in Parliament on New Economic Policy injustices and inequalities

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the Perak DAP State Committee meeting held in Sitiawan on Thursday, July 4, 1985 at 9pm.

DAP to move a motion in Parliament on New Economic Policy injustices and inequalities.

Last year, the people of Malacca set the pace in the Save Bukit China campaign to raise the political consciousness of the people about the need for them in a parliamentary democracy to stand up for their rights if they are not to be eroded away. Continue reading DAP to move a motion in Parliament on New Economic Policy injustices and inequalities

Local agents of foreign ships in Malacca deprived of their livelihood by Kotena Nasional regulations that disembarking agents of foreign shippers must be bumiputra companies

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the DAP Federal Territory State Committee meeting held at Pudu DAP Branch, Kuala Lumpur, on Thursday, l3.6.l985 at 8 pm.

Local agents of foreign ships in Malacca deprived of their livelihood by Kotena Nasional regulations that disembarking agents of foreign shippers must be bumiputra companies.

The DAP, whether at the national, state or local level, cannot wait for the Barisan Nasional component parties to make more political mistakes or to get involve in more scandals to antagonise and alienate the people, but must actively create political conditions for the people to realise the importance of taking a stand against Barisan Nasional politics in the coming general elections. Continue reading Local agents of foreign ships in Malacca deprived of their livelihood by Kotena Nasional regulations that disembarking agents of foreign shippers must be bumiputra companies

DAP Calls On Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed to give a full account of the Federal Government’s involvement in the Sabah

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the Klang DAP Branch Anniversary dinner held in Klang on Wednesday, 5th June 1985 at 8 pm

DAP Calls On Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed to give a full account of the Federal Government’s involvement in the Sabah
submarine and APC plan.

Ever since the revelation by the Sabah Chief Minister, Datuk Joseph Pairin Kitingan in the Sabah State Assembly on May 20 of the hitherto top-secret plan of Sabah Shipyard Bhd to build submarines Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC), the Ministry Of Defence had given
confused and contradictory responses which shows that the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing in the Ministry. Continue reading DAP Calls On Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed to give a full account of the Federal Government’s involvement in the Sabah

DAP calls for the Fifth Malaysia Plan 1986-1990 to be formulated with the primary aim to remedy and rectify the gross deviationof the overriding objective of the NEP to achieve national unity

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Slang at the Seventh DAP National Congress at Penang Chinese Assembly Hall on Saturday, April 20, 1985 at 10 am.

DAP calls for the Fifth Malaysia Plan 1986-1990 to be formulated with the primary aim to remedy and rectify the gross deviationof the overriding objective of the NEP to achieve national unity.

When the government announced the New Economic Policy, and the subsequent Malaysia Five-Year Plans, it made clear that the overriding objective of the NEP and the various Plans was to achieve national unity. Continue reading DAP calls for the Fifth Malaysia Plan 1986-1990 to be formulated with the primary aim to remedy and rectify the gross deviationof the overriding objective of the NEP to achieve national unity

Ipoh Structure Plan will not help in achieving national unity as it is a plan to ‘bumiputra-ise’ and not to ‘Malaysian-ise’ Ipoh

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the DAP Perak meeting on ‘Ipoh Structure Plan’ held at Perak DAP premises on Sunday, 23.9.1984

Ipoh Structure Plan will not help in achieving national unity as it is a plan to ‘bumiputra-ise’ and not to ‘Malaysian-ise’ Ipoh

The DAP oppose the Ipoh Structure Plan for a number of fundamental reasons. Continue reading Ipoh Structure Plan will not help in achieving national unity as it is a plan to ‘bumiputra-ise’ and not to ‘Malaysian-ise’ Ipoh

Lim Kit Siang offers to be go-between to finalise details of the UMNO-PAS debate so that it could be held and not scuttled by inconclusive preliminaries

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the Selat Klang DAP Anniversary Dinner at Port Klang on Wednesday, 5.9.1984 at 9 p.m.

Lim Kit Siang offers to be go-between to finalise details of the UMNO-PAS debate so that it could be held and not scuttled by inconclusive preliminaries

On August 25, the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, challenged PAS to a series of debates to be telecast live on all topics, including the assimilation of Islam in the nation’s administration. Continue reading Lim Kit Siang offers to be go-between to finalise details of the UMNO-PAS debate so that it could be held and not scuttled by inconclusive preliminaries

Triple Failures of the New Economic Policy calls for new directions in nation-building.

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Mp for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on the debate on the Mid-Term Review of the Fourth Malaysia Plan on Monday, 2.4.1984.

Triple Failures of the New Economic Policy calls for new directions in nation-building.

The Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, has said that the Mid-Term Review of the Fourth Malaysia Plan heralded new direction in development and implementation of strategies to take into account the structural weakness and constraints of the Malaysian economy highlighted by the severe global economic recession, and that the details of the contents of the policies, strategies and programmes of new thinking on development would be elaborated in the Fifth Malaysia Plan, 1986-90. Continue reading Triple Failures of the New Economic Policy calls for new directions in nation-building.

New Economic Policy: Kebimbangan Menjelang 1990

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the forum on ‘Dasar Ekonomi Baru: Kebimbangan Menjelang 1990’ organised by the Persatuan Sains Kemasyarakatan, Universiti Sains Malaysia, at Dewan Tuanku Syed Putra, USM, Penang on Saturday, 10.3.1984 at 8 p.m.

New Economic Policy: Kebimbangan Menjelang 1990

Although there are six more years, the question of the extension of the New Economic Policy after 1990 had become a major political and economic issue ever since the Asian Forecast interview with the Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Musa Hitam, in June last year, with the follow-up pronouncements on the subject by UMNO Ministers and leaders and the resolution by the Wanita UMNO Assembly urging the government to extend the period for the implementation of the New Economic Policy from 1,990 to 2,000. Continue reading New Economic Policy: Kebimbangan Menjelang 1990

DAP calls on Dr. Mahathir Mohamed to release the Fourth Malaysia Plan Mid-Term Review well in advance of Parliamentary debate for MPs and the public to study and consider

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the DAP Kinta Valley Committee meeting in Ipoh on Sunday, March 04, 1984 at 10 a.m.

DAP calls on Dr. Mahathir Mohamed to release the Fourth Malaysia Plan Mid-Term Review well in advance of Parliamentary debate for MPs and the public to study and consider

The Cabinet approved the Mid-Term Review Report of the Fourth Malaysia Plan on January 10, but this Report had still to be made public although Parliament would begin its meeting next Monday on March 12 and would, among other things, be asked to adopt the Report. Continue reading DAP calls on Dr. Mahathir Mohamed to release the Fourth Malaysia Plan Mid-Term Review well in advance of Parliamentary debate for MPs and the public to study and consider