Category: Penang

Call on Penang voters to vote solidly for DAP for both Parliament and State tp bring in a DAP State Government

Speech by DAP Secretary-General, Parliamentary Candidate for Tanjong, and State Assembly Candidate for Kampong Kolam, Lim Kit Siang, at a ceramah Kuala Kangsar Road at Tuesday, 29th July 1986 at 11 a.m.

Call on Penang voters to vote solidly for DAP for both Parliament and State tp bring in a DAP State Government

Barisan Nasional, and in particular Gerakan, campaign workers are experts in trying to persuade the Penang voters to cost spilt votes whereby Parliament goes for DAP and State goes to them. Continue reading Call on Penang voters to vote solidly for DAP for both Parliament and State tp bring in a DAP State Government

DAP is prepared to take over the State Government of Penang if people want a change after 17 years of Gerakan rule

Speech by DAP Secretary-General, Parliamentary Candidate for Tanjong and State Assembly Candidate for Kampong Kolam, Lim Kit Siang, at a ceramah at Lim Jetty on 28.7.1986 at 9.30pm

DAP is prepared to take over the State Government of Penang if people want a change after 17 years of Gerakan rule

The 1986 General Elections should be an opportunity for all forces in the country which have suffered enough from the 29 years of misrule, injustice and discrimination of the ruling parties to unite to deny Barisan Nasional two-thirds parliamentary majority. Continue reading DAP is prepared to take over the State Government of Penang if people want a change after 17 years of Gerakan rule

Attorney-General had acted in a disgraceful fashion in repudiating the Penang State Legal Adviser’s assurance in court about stay of execution of Chambers and Barlow

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Ipoh on Saturday, 5.7.1986:

Attorney-General had acted in a disgraceful fashion in repudiating the Penang State Legal Adviser’s assurance in court about stay of execution of Chambers and Barlow

The Attorney-General, Tan Sri Abu Talib Othman, had acted in a most disgraceful manner in repudiating the solemn assurance given by the Penang State Legal Adviser, Shaari Yusuf, that there would be a stay of execution of the two Australians, Brian Geoffrey Chambers and John Kevin Barlow, until completion of pending court appeals. Continue reading Attorney-General had acted in a disgraceful fashion in repudiating the Penang State Legal Adviser’s assurance in court about stay of execution of Chambers and Barlow

DAP welcome idealistic Malaysians of conviction to join its ranks to take part in the crusade of 1986 to bring about political changes and reforms in Penang and Malaysia

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the general elections preparation meeting of Penang branch leaders held at Penang Chinese Town Hall on Sunday, 12.1.1986 at 9 a.m.

DAP welcome idealistic Malaysians of conviction to join its ranks to take part in the crusade of 1986 to bring about political changes and reforms in Penang and Malaysia

1986 will be an important political milestone in Malaysia history, as the political decision to be taken this year if general elections are held would have u far-reaching implication is determining the future of Malaysia for the next few decades. Continue reading DAP welcome idealistic Malaysians of conviction to join its ranks to take part in the crusade of 1986 to bring about political changes and reforms in Penang and Malaysia

I will visit a cross-section of the people of Penang and Malacca to get public feedback before deciding on the Penang DAP’s offer to contest in Penang in next general elections

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the Penang DAP State Committee meeting held in Penang on Sunday, 29.12.1985 at 5 pm

I will visit a cross-section of the people of Penang and Malacca to get public feedback before deciding on the Penang DAP’s offer to contest in Penang in next general elections

I thank the Penang DAP State Committee for the confidence in me in inviting me to spearhead the DAP Penang’s election campaign in the next general elections, and also to contest in the next general elections in Penang. Continue reading I will visit a cross-section of the people of Penang and Malacca to get public feedback before deciding on the Penang DAP’s offer to contest in Penang in next general elections

I have not yet made up my mind whether I would be accepting the Penang DAP State Committee’s offer to contest in Penang in next general elections, but Penang is now my base of operations to make Penang the DAP’s front-line state

Press conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Saturday, Dec.28, 1985 at 12 noon

I have not yet made up my mind whether I would be accepting the Penang DAP State Committee’s offer to contest in Penang in next general elections, but Penang is now my base of operations to make Penang the DAP’s front-line state

There has been considerable speculation since the inaugural issue of the revived English Rocket publication early this month that I would be contesting in Penang in the next general elections. Continue reading I have not yet made up my mind whether I would be accepting the Penang DAP State Committee’s offer to contest in Penang in next general elections, but Penang is now my base of operations to make Penang the DAP’s front-line state

DAP calls for suspension of the Attorney-General’s powers to certify cases as security cases which require mandatory death penalty on conviction until a full review of such cases in the last 10 years

Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Monday, 29.7.1985 at 11.30 am to launch the Save Condemned Sim Kie Chon Campaign in Penang State.

DAP calls for suspension of the Attorney-General’s powers to certify cases as security cases which require mandatory death penalty on conviction until a full review of such cases in the last 10 years.

I have come to Penang to launch the Save Convict Sim Kie Chong Campaign in the Penang State, to ask the people of Penang to support the public appeal to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong to exercise his prerogative of mercy to pardon Sim by commuting his death sentence to life imprisonment. Continue reading DAP calls for suspension of the Attorney-General’s powers to certify cases as security cases which require mandatory death penalty on conviction until a full review of such cases in the last 10 years

Call on Malaysians of all races to respond to the Save Sim Kie Chon signature campaign in the way the people responded to the DAP’s Save l3-condemned signature campaign in 1968

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Ipoh on Sunday, July 28, 1985.

Call on Malaysians of all races to respond to the Save Sim Kie Chon signature campaign in the way the people responded to the DAP’s Save l3-condemned signature campaign in 1968.

I come to Ipoh today to understand the latest developments in the Kampong Pisang issue; where over 2,000 people who had been staying in the area for over three generations, face the bleak prospect of eviction from their homes, workshops, foundries, losing not only their roof but also their rice-bowls; with the makings of another blow-up as in Kampong Bercham or even Thean Teik estate in Penang. Continue reading Call on Malaysians of all races to respond to the Save Sim Kie Chon signature campaign in the way the people responded to the DAP’s Save l3-condemned signature campaign in 1968

Dr Lim Chong Eu and Gerakan had short-changed the People of Penang with Komtar and the Penang bridge in exchange for the drastic erosion of their political, ecomonic, educational, cultural and religious rights

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the Ten Thousand-People DAP Seventh National Congress Dinner held at Esplanade, Penang on Saturday, April 20, 1985 at 9pm.

Dr Lim Chong Eu and Gerakan had short-changed the People of Penang with Komtar and the Penang bridge in exchange for the drastic erosion of their political, ecomonic, educational, cultural and religious rights.

The Penang Gerakan had started a campaign among Chinese guilds, associations and societies to get them to jointly appeal to Dr. Lim Chong Eu to remain as Penang Chief Minister and to lead the Gerakan in Penang in the next general elections. Continue reading Dr Lim Chong Eu and Gerakan had short-changed the People of Penang with Komtar and the Penang bridge in exchange for the drastic erosion of their political, ecomonic, educational, cultural and religious rights

Anwar Ibrahim’s Senate statement yesterday should banish whatever doubts the 15 Chinese national organisations and Tung/Chiau Chung

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Me1aka, Lim Kit Siang, at the Bentong, DAP Anniversary Dinner held in Bentong, Pahang, on Saturday, 13th August 1983 at 8 p.m.

Anwar Ibrahim’s Senate statement yesterday should banish whatever doubts the 15 Chinese national organisations and Tung/Chiau Chung should have that the Penang Cultural Memorandum has been rejected by the Ministry of Culture, and should spur them into action to reaffirm support for the Memorandum.

On July 29 in Parliament, the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Anwar Ibrahim, made an important statement in reply to questions by DAP Members of Parliament, making clear, without stating directly, that the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports rejected the Penang Cultural Memorandum of the 15 Chinese national organisations and Tung/Chiau Chung adopted in Penang at the Malaysian Chinese Cultural Congress on March 27. Continue reading Anwar Ibrahim’s Senate statement yesterday should banish whatever doubts the 15 Chinese national organisations and Tung/Chiau Chung