Category: General

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Friday, 27th March 1992:

Call on MCA, Gerakan and MIC Ministers to ask for a Cabinet decision next Wednesday that in the change to new identity cards, no citizen will be reduced to a red identity-card status because of spelling or clerical errors in decades-old documents.

The MCA Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Home Affairs, Ong Ka Ting, is trying to evade the problems faced by mil¬lions of Malaysians in the introduction of the new identity card by claiming that the National Registration Department had never and had no powers to deprive a Malaysian of his citizenship. Continue reading Call on MCA, Gerakan and MIC Ministers to ask for a Cabinet decision next Wednesday that in the change to new identity cards, no citizen will be reduced to a red identity-card status because of spelling or clerical errors in decades-old documents.

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Thursday, 26th March, 1992:

Can National Registration Department give an assurance that no blue identity-card holder applying for new identity card would be threatened with loss of citizenship because of spelling or clerical errors in old documents?

The National Registration Department’s Public Relations Officer, Rossilawati Alias, said yesterday that there has been no case of any person who had lost his citizenship when applying for new identity card, or having the blue identity card changed into red identity card. Continue reading Can National Registration Department give an assurance that no blue identity-card holder applying for new identity card would be threatened with loss of citizenship because of spelling or clerical errors in old documents?

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, \in Petaling Jaya on Tuesday, 24th March, 1992:

How did the National Registration Department counter staff must be responsible for 80 per cent of the blame for the delays of 77,000 applications for new identity cards suddenly become the people must be responsible?

Last Friday’s papers of all languages carried the Kuching speech of the Director-General of the National Registration Depart¬ment, Kamaruddin Nordin, that about 80 per cent of the blame for the delay of 77,000 applications for new identity cards throughout the country lies with the staff of the National Registration Department. Continue reading How did the National Registration Department counter staff must be responsible for 80 per cent of the blame for the delays of 77,000 applications for new identity cards suddenly become the people must be responsible?

Speech (Part 2) by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the ‘Party Reform’ meeting of the Negri Sembilan DAP State Committee held in Seremban on Tuesday, 24th March, 1992 at 8 pm.

Call on Cabinet to issue a directive that all blue identity card holders will be issued with new identity cards without threat of being turned into red identity card holders because of spelling or clerical errors in old documents.

The application for the new identity cards has turned into a nightmare for many Malaysians, who are threatened with the loss of their citizenship status because of some spelling or clerical errors in some old documents which go back many decades or which belong to their parents. Continue reading Call on Cabinet to issue a directive that all blue identity card holders will be issued with new identity cards without threat of being turned into red identity card holders because of spelling or clerical errors in old documents

By parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Friday, 11th October 1991:

Call for a public inquiry into the role of the Public Enterprises Minister and the MARA Chairman into the fiasco of the attempted removal of the MARA Director-General

The admission by the Public Enterprises Minister, Datuk Dr. Yusuf Nor that he had instructed the Ministry’s Deputy Secretary-General, Dr. Mohamed Noor Harun, to “temporarily” replace the MARA Director-General, Haji Mohamed Ridzuaqn Haji Halim, had not thrown light but deepened the mystery of the fiasco of the attempted removal of the MARA Director-General. Continue reading Call for a public inquiry into the role of the Public Enterprises Minister and the MARA Chairman into the fiasco of the attempted removal of the MARA Director-General

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Wednesday, October 9, 1991:

Tamrin Bhafar should be suspended as MARA Chairman until the controversy over his attempted high-handed and irregular removal of MARA Director-General had been resolved

The controversy over the removal of the MARA Director-General has deepened with the statement by the Minister for Public Enterprises, Datuk Dr. Yusuf Nor, in Batu Gajah yesterday that the announcement by the MARA Chairman, Tamrin Ghafar, removing Haji Mohamed Ridzuan Haji Abdul Halim as MARA Director-General and replacing him with the Ministry’s Deputy Secretary-General, Dr. Mohamed Noor Haji Harun, had not been endorsed by his Ministry. Continue reading Tamrin Bhafar should be suspended as MARA Chairman until the controversy over his attempted high-handed and irregular removal of MARA Director-General had been resolved

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Monday, July 1,1991:

Is there a Home Ministry Committee studying the dropping of racial tag in government documents and forms or is there not?

Two days ago, the Deputy National Unity and Social Development Minister, Datuk Alex Lee, said that the Home Ministry had set up a committee to study the thousands of official forms and documents to identify which one could drop the classification of Malaysians by race. Continue reading Is there a Home Ministry Committee studying the dropping of racial tag in government documents and forms or is there not?

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Saturday, 1st June 1991:

Muslim converts should clarify he rights of their family members so that the tragedy of the 28-day corpse dispute of Lee Siew Kee would not recur

The High Court judgement ending the 28-day corpse dispute of Lee Siew Kee is a very important and historic one. Continue reading Muslim converts should clarify he rights of their family members so that the tragedy of the 28-day corpse dispute of Lee Siew Kee would not recur

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Friday, 24th May 1991:

Call on Government to allow former MCP Wanita leader, Shamsiah Fakih, to return to Malaysia.

New agency report from Bangkok has reported Thai military spokesman as saying that the Malaysian government had agreed to allow over 400 former Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) members to return to Malaysia. Continue reading Call on Government to allow former MCP Wanita leader, Shamsiah Fakih, to return to Malaysia