Category: Public Service

Parit Bunter ferry tragedy – DAP presses for immediate government compensation and remedial action

Parit Bunter ferry tragedy – DAP presses for immediate government compensation and remedial action

Yesterday, accompanied by DAP National Vice Chairman, Sdr. Daing Ibrahim bin Othman, DAP Deputy Secretary-General and Perak DAP State Assembly leader, Sdr. Ibrahim bin Singgeh, DAP Deputy Secretary-General and M.P. for Batu Gajah, Sdr. Lim Cho Hock, M.P. for Teluk Anson, Sdr. Chan Fu King, Perak State Assemblymen for Kuala Dipang, Sdr. Chan Heng Who, and Perak DAP Women’s Section leaders, I visited the Parit Buntar and Dander Bahru tragedy areas.

The DAP delegation wanted to see for ourselves the actual situation which led and caused the Parit Buntar ferry tragedy which caused 32 lives.

There is no doubt that there is a great sense of betrayal by the people of Parit Buntar and Bandar Baharu. Continue reading Parit Bunter ferry tragedy – DAP presses for immediate government compensation and remedial action

Complaints by the people of Tenang

Press Statement by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang on 9th October 1971.

Complaints by the people of Tenang

While on a visit to the Tenang DAP Branch in Segamat, district, Johore, last week, I received several complaints and representations about government neglect of the welfare of the people of Tenang.

For instance, the public telephone booth and the postal box had been spoilt for nearly two years, and had not been replaced, causing great inconvenience to the poor villagers of Tenang.

I have written to the telephone and postal authorities drawing their attention to the matter.

There were also complaints of misuse of public funds. I have written to the Director of Anti-Corruption Agency of Johore to investigate into a serious allegation of improper allocation of land in Tenang. The land was not allocated to the Tenang villagers, but to Segamat towns-people who are members of the ruling party. This is clearly abuse and improper allocation of land.

Alliance masterplan, religious persecutions & 1971 Budget

Statement by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, at a press conference held at 86, Jonker street, Malacca, on Monday, 21st December 1970 at 10.30 a.m.

Alliance masterplan to buy over DAP MPs and State Assemblymen

The Alliance has a masterplan to buy over DAP MPs and State Assemblymen to defect to the Alliance.

Alliance intermediaries are approaching DAP MPs and State Assemblymen with offers of money, position, office and economic inducements to persuade them to cross over to the Alliance. In some cases, these material inducements are not so direct and blatant, the approach made seemingly on an intellectual level. But underlying these approaches even, the material inducements is held out indirectly. Continue reading Alliance masterplan, religious persecutions & 1971 Budget

Penang island, Quo Vadis?

The DAP Organising Secretary, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, today (21.8.68) issued the following statement:

Penang island is today blanketed by a fog of anxiety, gloom and pessimism, as the islanders see no way out of the economic blind alley they find themselves in, particularly with both the State and Central Governments unsympathetic and unimpressed by the urgency and seriousness of the situation.

Over the years, trade has declined, while unemployment has soared; business has stagnated, while the cost of living has rocketed. Continue reading Penang island, Quo Vadis?

Opposition Politics in Malaysia

Talk by DAP organising secretary Mr. Lim Kit Siang, to the Penang DAP branch at 52, Magazine Road, on Monday 1st July 1968 at 8 p.m.

We can classify opposition politicians under three categories:

(1) the “grasshopper” politicians;

(2) the “election” politicians; and

(3) the “dedicated” politicians. Continue reading Opposition Politics in Malaysia