Category: Education

Call on Malaysian Government to reduce the Fourth Malaysia Plan defence expenditure by 10%

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, at the jalan Templer DAP Branch Thousand-People Solidarity Dinner in Seremban on Saturday, 20th June 1981 at 8 p.m.

Call on Malaysian Government to reduce the Fourth Malaysia Plan defence expenditure by 10% and devote the savings of $430 million to start a revolving student loan fund to enable non-Malay students to pay for their higher studies

Recently, the MCA has come out with another one of its new tricks, namely KOJADI, purportedly to help needy students to pursue higher studies. Continue reading Call on Malaysian Government to reduce the Fourth Malaysia Plan defence expenditure by 10%

Call on Tengku Razaleigh to spare a few minutes from his campaigning for UMNO Deputy Presidency to honour and release the $600,000 he had promised the three Chinese primary schools during Pengkalan Kota by-election

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, to the Petaling DAP Liaison Committee meeting held at Serdang Bahru DAP Branch on Thursday, 28th May 1981 at 8.30 p.m.

Call on Tengku Razaleigh to spare a few minutes from his campaigning for UMNO Deputy Presidency to honour and release the $600,000 he had promised the three Chinese primary schools during Pengkalan Kota by-election

During the Pengkalan Kota by-election in Penang last November, the Finance Minister, Tengku Razaleigh, announced during his visit to the constituency on-the-spot grants of $600,000 to three Chinese primary schools in the area, namely Sum Ming primary school ($450,000), Beng Teik primary school ($50,000) and Eng Chuan primary school ($100,000). That was on Nov. 8, 1981. Continue reading Call on Tengku Razaleigh to spare a few minutes from his campaigning for UMNO Deputy Presidency to honour and release the $600,000 he had promised the three Chinese primary schools during Pengkalan Kota by-election

DAP calls on the Education Minister, Datuk Musa Hitam, to release the report of the Curriculum Development Centre survey

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, at a meeting of Perak DAP MPs and State Assemblymen in Ipoh on Friday, 8th May 1981 at 7 p.m.

DAP calls on the Education Minister, Datuk Musa Hitam, to release the report of the Curriculum Development Centre survey on the 3R abilities of primary school students for study and discussion by parents, teachers and the public.

Last month, the Education Minister, Datuk Musa Hitam, said that a survey by his Ministry’s Curriculum Development Centre produced the ‘shocking findings’ that an alarming number of primary school students could not read, write and add. Datuk Musa Hitam said that survey resulted in the government’s decision to launch 3M programme for the primary schools in the country. Continue reading DAP calls on the Education Minister, Datuk Musa Hitam, to release the report of the Curriculum Development Centre survey

Call on Minister of Education to rectify the step-children treatment of Chinese and Tamil primary schools under the Fourth Malaysia Plan

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, on the Ministry of Education 1981 first supplementary estimates in the Dewan Rakyat on Thursday, 9th April 1981

Call on Minister of Education to rectify the step-children treatment of Chinese and Tamil primary schools under the Fourth Malaysia Plan by providing at least 50% of the $518 million earmarked for primary schools for development of Chinese and Tamil primary schools

I move a $10 cut to the supplementary development vote for $60 million for primary schools to highlight a area of grave neglect in primary education ever since the launching of the New Economic Policy in 1971. Continue reading Call on Minister of Education to rectify the step-children treatment of Chinese and Tamil primary schools under the Fourth Malaysia Plan

Call on Malaysians to be politically committed to defend and safeguard their constitutional, political, economic, educational and cultural right from being eroded away or like in Mengkarak new village in Pahang

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, when officially declaring open the Raub DAP Branch premises in Raub, Pahang, on Sunday, 22nd March 1981 at 4.30 pm

Call on Malaysians to be politically committed to defend and safeguard their constitutional, political, economic, educational and cultural right from being eroded away or like in Mengkarak new village in Pahang, where a tarred road has become a dirt road.

Yesterday, together with the National Deputy Chairman, Sdr. Ibrahim Singgeh, CEC Member Sdr. Lau Dak Lee, Pahang State DAP Chairman, Sdr. Lim Yin Hong and Special Assistant to Secretary-General, Sdr. Tai Sin Piaw, I visited Mengkarak new village in Pahang for the first time. Continue reading Call on Malaysians to be politically committed to defend and safeguard their constitutional, political, economic, educational and cultural right from being eroded away or like in Mengkarak new village in Pahang

DAP’s task in the 1980s is to fight for the legitimate and proper place of Chinese education in Malaysia without fear of repression and to convince all Malaysians that this is neither chauvinist nor communist in character

Speech Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, at the inaugural meeting of the DAP Education Bureau Chinese education committee at DAP PJ Headquarters on Monday, 9th Feb. 1981 at 5.30 p.m.

DAP’s task in the 1980s is to fight for the legitimate and proper place of Chinese education in Malaysia without fear of repression and to convince all Malaysians that this is neither chauvinist nor communist in character

Last week, former New Straits Times managing editor, Samad Ismail, went on television for the second time prior to his release from detention and said among other things, that “In Malaysia, the demand for Chinese rights to education, the language and cultural issues, were exploited by the Communists to cause racial tension.” Continue reading DAP’s task in the 1980s is to fight for the legitimate and proper place of Chinese education in Malaysia without fear of repression and to convince all Malaysians that this is neither chauvinist nor communist in character

DAP calls for government to set up a special Task Force III to check and control the inflow over 100,000 illegal Indonesia immigration into Johore

Speech Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, at the Petaling Jaya DAP branch to celebrate the Party 15th anniversary held at Petaling Jaya Civil Centre on Sunday, 26th January 1981 at 8 p.m.

DAP calls for government to set up a special Task Force III to check and control the inflow over 100,000 illegal Indonesia immigration into Johore

A few years ago, when Vietnamese in their hundreds of thousand sought escape from Vietnam, resulting in large numbers of them landing on the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia, the Government set up a Special Task Force III (‘Vietnamese Illegal Immigrants’) to deal with the problem. Malaysians still can remember the announcement at one stage by the Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamed, that if any more Vietnamese refugees land in Malaysia without proper international resettlement arrangements, then Malaysia will adopt the policy ‘shoot to kill’. Continue reading DAP calls for government to set up a special Task Force III to check and control the inflow over 100,000 illegal Indonesia immigration into Johore

Kit Siang calls on Malaysian authorities to mend fences with Malaysian students in New Zealand

Kit Siang calls on Malaysian authorities to mend fences with Malaysian students in New Zealand

Parliamentary Opposition Leaders and DAP Secretary General, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, has called on the Malaysia High Commission and the Malaysia authorities to mend fence with Malaysia students in New Zealand and to re-establish a relationship of trust and confidence with Malaysian students there.

Mr. Lim said he was surprised to find that the Malaysian High Commission had been banned by the Students’ Union both of the Victoria University of Wellington and the Auckland University. The relationship between the Malaysia High Commission and the Malaysia Student unions with effective representation of the majority of Malaysian students in the various New Zealand universities were also very strained if not ruptured. Continue reading Kit Siang calls on Malaysian authorities to mend fences with Malaysian students in New Zealand

Lim Kit Siang calls on Malaysian students in Australia to have national and political consciousness to protect the right and interest of Malaysians

Lim Kit Siang calls on Malaysian students in Australia to have national and political consciousness to protect the right and interest of Malaysians

Malaysian Parliamentary Opposition Leaders, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, has called on Malaysian students in Australia to have a national and political consciousness so as to be able to protect the right and interest of all Malaysian.

Mr. Lim was speaking to another capacity crowd of Malaysian students in Australia, this time at the University of new South Wales in Sydney, in the course of Mr. Lim’s tour of Australia to find out about the problems and needs of Malaysian students and to update them on development at home. Continue reading Lim Kit Siang calls on Malaysian students in Australia to have national and political consciousness to protect the right and interest of Malaysians

Lim Kit Siang calls on Australia Government to expand education opportunities for young Malaysian to make up the brain-drain of Qualified manpower from Malaysia to Australia

Lim Kit Siang calls on Australia Government to expand education opportunities for young Malaysian to make up the brain-drain of Qualified manpower from Malaysia to Australia

Parliamentary Opposition Leaders, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, has suggested that Australia greatly expand educational opportunity for young Malaysian in all field of professional, scientific and technological expertise, to make up for the brain-drain of qualified manpower from Malaysia to Australia.

There are at present 25,000 Malaysian who have migrated to Australia, mostly in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Perth. Most of them are doctors, engineers, dentists, accountants, computerists and teachers, and as such constitute a serious brain-drain for Malaysia. Continue reading Lim Kit Siang calls on Australia Government to expand education opportunities for young Malaysian to make up the brain-drain of Qualified manpower from Malaysia to Australia