Category: Education

Call on Malaysia Government to treat all Malaysians of Post-Merdeka generation as Bumiputeras

Call on Malaysia Government to treat all Malaysians of Post-Merdeka generation as Bumiputeras

Parliamentary Opposition Leaders, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, has called on the Malaysian Government to recognise and treat all Malaysian of the Post-Merdeka generation as Bumiputeras.

Mr. Lim was speaking to a capacity crowd of Malaysian students at La Trobe University, Melbourne, the third consecutive night he spoke to Malaysian students. The previous two nights, Mr. Lim spoke to Malaysian students in Monash University and Melbourne University. Continue reading Call on Malaysia Government to treat all Malaysians of Post-Merdeka generation as Bumiputeras

Lim Kit Siang to raise with Datuk Musa the establishment of a Contingency Loan Fund to help Malaysian students in Australia

Lim Kit Siang to raise with Datuk Musa the establishment of a Contingency Loan Fund to help Malaysian students in Australia.

Parliamentary Opposition Leaders, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, has called on the Education Minister, Datuk Musa Hitam, to immediately set up a
Revolving Loan Fund for Malaysian students in Australia to help them tide over financial difficulties, including those created by the imposition of university fees.

Mr. Lim said he would meet Datuk Musa on his return to Malaysia to discuss this and other matters affecting Malaysian students in Australia. Continue reading Lim Kit Siang to raise with Datuk Musa the establishment of a Contingency Loan Fund to help Malaysian students in Australia

Lim Kit Siang call on Malaysian students to make the best use of their educational opportunity in Australia and return to serve and build up Malaysia

Lim Kit Siang call on Malaysian students to make the best use of their educational opportunity in Australia and return to serve and build up Malaysia

Parliamentary Opposition Leaders, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, has called on Malaysian students in Australia to work hard and to make the best use of their education opportunities in Australia so that they could return on completion of their studies and help build up Malaysia.

Mr. Lim said Malaysian students in Australia are in a sense fortunate and must not forget their responsibility to return to Malaysia to create a more just and equal, multi-racial Malaysia, and stamp out all form of extremism and chauvinism. Continue reading Lim Kit Siang call on Malaysian students to make the best use of their educational opportunity in Australia and return to serve and build up Malaysia

Australian Government assures Lim Kit Siang that there would be no decrease of student intake into Australia from Malaysia

Australian Government assures Lim Kit Siang that there would be no decrease of student intake into Australia from Malaysia

Australian Foreign Minister, Mr. Andrew Peacock, has assured Malaysia Parliamentary Opposition leaders, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, that Australia would not decrease intake of Malaysian student into Australia for higher studies.

Mr. Peacock assured Mr. Lim, that the Australia Government would continue the educational programme to provide higher educational opportunities for Malaysian students in Australia. Continue reading Australian Government assures Lim Kit Siang that there would be no decrease of student intake into Australia from Malaysia

DAP calls for the strict principle of merit to be applied in staffing medical school and hospitals to ensure high medical standard in Malaysia

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, when inaugurating the protem committee of the Kemaman DAP Branch in Kemaman, Trengganu, on Thursday, 4th September 1980 at 5p.m.

DAP calls for the strict principle of merit to be applied in staffing medical school and hospitals to ensure high medical standard in Malaysia.

Meritocracy has been a much-abused word in Malaysia recently. Those who insist on merit are accused of having ulterior motive to perpetuate long-standing injustices and imbalances in education and economic fields, for instance. Continue reading DAP calls for the strict principle of merit to be applied in staffing medical school and hospitals to ensure high medical standard in Malaysia

DAP calls for the abandonment of the 2% University Places Policy and its substitution with a Liberal University Places Policy which will give higher education opportunities for all eligible Malaysian students

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, at the Thousand-People Selangor/Federal Territory DAP Dinner held at Mak Yee Restaurant, Wisma Shaw, Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, 30th August 1980 at 9p.m

DAP calls for the abandonment of the 2% University Places Policy and its substitution with a Liberal University Places Policy which will give higher education opportunities for all eligible Malaysian students

The diminution and deprivation of higher education opportunities of our children in our own country is the most burning issue which pre-occupy Malaysian parents in the 1970s. Continue reading DAP calls for the abandonment of the 2% University Places Policy and its substitution with a Liberal University Places Policy which will give higher education opportunities for all eligible Malaysian students

From The SG’s Desk

State Committees and Finance

I had asked for new approaches and concepts in organization to better equip the Party for the Eighties. New ideas and approaches should not be confined to Organisation, but must apply to all fields of Party activity.

In F.SG.D. (SG/6/80), I had dwelt on the ‘Responsibility and Challenge of State Committees’. What I said there was only the beginning of new ideas on State Committee’s new responsibilities in the Decade of the Eighties. Continue reading From The SG’s Desk

DAP appoints Sdr. Tai Sin Piow as Special Assistant to Secretary-General with effect from 1.8.1980

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, at the inaugural meeting of the DAP Political Education Committee at DAP Hqrs on Sunday, 27th July 1980 at 2.30 pm

DAP appoints Sdr. Tai Sin Piow as Special Assistant to Secretary-General with effect from 1.8.1980

The inauguration of the DAP Political Education Committee marks another milestone in the DAP, as henceforth, political education of party members and cadres to upgrade the political commitment of party members will be a major feature of party activities in the 1980s. Continue reading DAP appoints Sdr. Tai Sin Piow as Special Assistant to Secretary-General with effect from 1.8.1980

DAP calls for greatly expanded places for non-Malay students to study in Form Six to prepare them for university education

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, to the Selangor/Federal Territory DAP State Committee at Jalan Sultan DAP Premises, Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday, 26th July 1980 at 5 pm

DAP calls for greatly expanded places for non-Malay students to study in Form Six to prepare them for university education

Public attention has so far been focused on the inadequacy of places in the five local universities especially for non-Malay students to pursue higher studies. However, equally important in determining the intake of university students is the situation of intake for Form Six places from MCE/SPM Students. Continue reading DAP calls for greatly expanded places for non-Malay students to study in Form Six to prepare them for university education

Call on Malaysians who are concerned about the preservation of Chinese and Tamil primary schools

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, at the Third meeting of the DAP National Publicity Committee in DAP HQ on Friday, 25th July 1980 at 6 pm

Call on Malaysians who are concerned about the preservation of Chinese and Tamil primary schools as guaranteed by the Constitution should get themselves registered as voters from August 25 onwards

The Voters’ Registration exercise this year will begin on August 25 and will last for 42 days. During the previous general elections, substantial numbers of Malaysian youths found that although they wanted to vote for the DAP, they could not cast their ballot because they have not been registered as voters. Continue reading Call on Malaysians who are concerned about the preservation of Chinese and Tamil primary schools