Category: North-South Highway

Call on Datuk Samy Vellu to freeze the 100% increase in toll rates for all sections of the North-South Highway until the final award of the North-South Highway privatization contract

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Mp for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall Youth Section seminar on “North-South Highway” held at Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall on Thursday, 27.8.1987 at 8 p.m. on the topic: “North-South Highway, can you afford at?”

Call on Datuk Samy Vellu to freeze the 100% increase in toll rates for all sections of the North-South Highway until the final award of the North-South Highway privatization contract

As a result of the DAP’s vigorous protests against the proposed toll increases at the North-South Highway by 100%, the Works Minister, Datuk Samy Vellu, at the opening of the Senawang-Ayer Keroh Highway on 13th August 1987, announced a month-long postponement of the increase until Sept 15. Continue reading Call on Datuk Samy Vellu to freeze the 100% increase in toll rates for all sections of the North-South Highway until the final award of the North-South Highway privatization contract

Call on Dr. Mahathir Mohamed and top UMNO leaders to heed the advice of Tunku Abdul Rahman and withdraw UMNO’s involvement in the North-South Highway (NSH) privatization contract through Hatibudi and UEM to safeguard the good name of leaders of UMNO and government

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the inaugural meeting of the DAP Committee to Oppose Tolls on Federal Highway Route II which will organize the mass signature campaign in Klang Valley to oppose Federal Highway Route II tolls, held in Selangor DAP Hqrs on Monday, 24th August 1987 at 7.30 p.m.

Call on Dr. Mahathir Mohamed and top UMNO leaders to heed the advice of Tunku Abdul Rahman and withdraw UMNO’s involvement in the North-South Highway (NSH) privatization contract through Hatibudi and UEM to safeguard the good name of leaders of UMNO and government

Malaysia’s elder statesman, Tunku Abdul Rahman, has again offered words of wisdom when he wrote on the North-South Highway (NSH) privatization contract in his weekly column, ‘As I See It’ in the Star today. Continue reading Call on Dr. Mahathir Mohamed and top UMNO leaders to heed the advice of Tunku Abdul Rahman and withdraw UMNO’s involvement in the North-South Highway (NSH) privatization contract through Hatibudi and UEM to safeguard the good name of leaders of UMNO and government

Appeal to Supreme Court against Penang High Court’s decision yesterday dismissing application for an injunction to restrain the signing of the UEM contract for North-South Highway privatization

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Wednesday, 19.8.1987:

Appeal to Supreme Court against Penang High Court’s decision yesterday dismissing application for an injunction to restrain the signing of the UEM contract for North-South Highway privatization

I have decided to appeal to the Supreme Court against the decision by Penang High Court judge, Edgar Joseph Jr., dismissing my application for an injunction to restrain the signing of the United Engineers Malaysia (UEM) contract for North-South Highway privatization. Continue reading Appeal to Supreme Court against Penang High Court’s decision yesterday dismissing application for an injunction to restrain the signing of the UEM contract for North-South Highway privatization

Challenge to Dr. Mahathir to set up a Commission of Inquiry into the UEM contract for the North-South Highway to prove that there is no unethical conduct or conflict of interest in the award, and I offer to chair the Commission of Inquiry to clear the administration’ s name if everything is above board

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the DAP Federal Territory Protest Ceramah on the North-South Highway held at Federal Hotel, Kuala Lumpur on Friday, 14.8.1987 at 8 p.m.

Challenge to Dr. Mahathir to set up a Commission of Inquiry into the UEM contract for the North-South Highway to prove that there is no unethical conduct or conflict of interest in the award, and I offer to chair the Commission of Inquiry to clear the administration’ s name if everything is above board

At the opening ceremony for the Air-Keroh Senawang Highway yesterday, the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, challenged critics of the Government to prove their claim that certain people have profited through fraudulent means in the awarding of the contract for the privatization of the $3.4 billion North-South Highway (NSH). Continue reading Challenge to Dr. Mahathir to set up a Commission of Inquiry into the UEM contract for the North-South Highway to prove that there is no unethical conduct or conflict of interest in the award, and I offer to chair the Commission of Inquiry to clear the administration’ s name if everything is above board