Category: Hotel Metropole Scandal

By Parliament Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary –General and MP for Tanjung , Lim Kit Siang , in Penang on Saturday , 8 January 1994;

Ten terms of reference for the Public Inquiry Commission into the Hotel Metropole Heritage Building Demolition Scandal

The Public Inquiry Commission into the Hotel Metropole Heritage Building Demolition Scandal should have the following ten terms of reference, to inquire into : Continue reading Ten terms of reference for the Public Inquiry Commission into the Hotel Metropole Heritage Building Demolition Scandal

By Parliament Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary –General and MP for Tanjung , Lim Kit Siang , in Penang on Friday , 7 January 1994;

Tan Gim Hwa would be ‘ making a joke ‘ of the wanton destruction of the Penang heritage building , Hotel metropole , in asking its new owner to rebuild it within six months if MPPP does not have original building plan or scale drawing

The Penang Chief Minister , Dr. Koh Tsu Koon and the Penang Heritage Trust have come out in open support for the demand by the MPPP President, Datuk Tan Gim Hwa that Hotel Metropole should be rebuilt and restored by within six months. Continue reading Tan Gim Hwa would be ‘ making a joke ‘ of the wanton destruction of the Penang heritage building , Hotel metropole , in asking its new owner to rebuild it within six months if MPPP does not have original building plan or scale drawing

By Parliament Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary –General and MP for Tanjung , Lim Kit Siang , in Penang on Thursday , 6th January 1994;

DAP calls on Penang Chief Minister , Dr.Koh Tsu Koon to establish a Public Inquiry into the scandalous demolition of Hotel Metropole and the MPPP’s role – whether of omission or commission

In the past few days, I had told a few DAP State Assemblymen , including Sdr. Taoh Tik Huar, Sdr. Chow Kon Yoew, Sdr. K. Balasundram and Sdr. Tan Loo Jit of my prediction that when Datuk Tan Gim Hwa breaks his prolonged silence on the outrageous and scandalous demolition of Hotel Metropole – or ‘ Hotel Gerakan’ as it is know in the last two decades – the MPPP President would claim that the knew nothing about the demolition. Continue reading DAP calls on Penang Chief Minister , Dr.Koh Tsu Koon to establish a Public Inquiry into the scandalous demolition of Hotel Metropole and the MPPP’s role – whether of omission or commission

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim kit Siang, in Penang on Sunday,2nd January , 1994:

DAP calls on Penang Chief Minister to suspend Tan Cim Hwa as MPPP President for his scandalous role in removing Hotel Metropole from the MPPP list of 20 conservation buildings at millionaires’ Row and for conniving in its switt demolition.

DAP calls on Penang Chief Minister to suspend Tan Cim Hwa as MPPP President for his scandalous role in removing Hotel Metropole from the MPPP list of 20 conservation buildings at millionaires’ Row and for conniving in its swift demolition. Continue reading DAP calls on Penang Chief Minister to suspend Tan Cim Hwa as MPPP President for his scandalous role in removing Hotel Metropole from the MPPP list of 20 conservation buildings at millionaires’ Row and for conniving in its switt demolition

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim kit Siang, in Penang on Saturday, 1st January 1994:

DAP calls on Penang Chief Minister, Dr. Koh Tsu Koon to freeze the re-appointment of MPPP councillors until they could give a satisfactory explanation for the undemocratic decision on Hotel Metropole which violates the principles of accountability, transparency and responsibility.

MPPP President, Datuk Tan Gim Hwa must explain why the MPPP had been so undemocratic in violating the principles of accountability and transparency in removing Hotel Metropole from the MPPP list of 20 conservation buildings at Millionaires’ row in Georgetown without public consultation or notice. Continue reading DAP calls on Penang Chief Minister, Dr. Koh Tsu Koon to freeze the re-appointment of MPPP councillors until they could give a satisfactory explanation for the undemocratic decision on Hotel Metropole which violates the principles of accountability, transparency and responsibility