Category: Sabah

DAP calls for withdrawal of 5% Sales Tax increase and the deferring of the $1,900 million defence development expenditure for 1983 until better economic times

Speech by Parliament Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, on the 1983 Budget in the Dewan Rakyat on Monday, 25th October 1982.

DAP calls for withdrawal of 5% Sales Tax increase and the deferring of the $1,900 million defence development expenditure for 1983 until better economic times.

Last October, the Finance Minister, Tengku Razaleigh, presented the 1982 Budget deliberately to generate euphoria to win votes in the April general elections, hiding the grim truths of hard economic times from the people. Continue reading DAP calls for withdrawal of 5% Sales Tax increase and the deferring of the $1,900 million defence development expenditure for 1983 until better economic times

Second airline for Malaysia, especially Sabah and Sarawak?

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary- General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, Oct.2, 1981:

Second airline for Malaysia, especially Sabah and Sarawak?

At the forthcoming Parliamentary meeting which begin on Oct. 12 and adjourns on Dec. 8, I will be asking the Prime Minister whether the government had decided to set up a second airline for domestic services. My question to the Prime Minister is: Continue reading Second airline for Malaysia, especially Sabah and Sarawak?

Sdr. Chian Heng Kai to tour Sarawak and Chan Kok Kit to visit Sabah to spread the DAP’s message of a Malaysian Malaysia

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, at a welcome-home dinner given by DAP officials and members in Penang at DAP Penang premises on Sunday, 2nd August 1981 at 8 p.m.

Sdr. Chian Heng Kai to tour Sarawak and Chan Kok Kit to visit Sabah to spread the DAP’s message of a Malaysian Malaysia

Sdr. Chian Heng Kai and Sdr. Chan Kok Kit have emerged from 4 years and 9 months’ incarceration unscathed, unbowed and still fighting for the political ideals and objectives for which they were detained. Continue reading Sdr. Chian Heng Kai to tour Sarawak and Chan Kok Kit to visit Sabah to spread the DAP’s message of a Malaysian Malaysia

How a million dollars could be made from supplying ‘instant mee’ to the armed forces

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, at the Simpang Ampat DAP Branch Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, 23rd June 1981 at 8 p.m.

How a million dollars could be made from supplying ‘instant mee’ to the armed forces

Malaysia is aflush with money – especially with the new wealth coming from petroleum, which has overtaken rubber as the No. 1 income earner. Continue reading How a million dollars could be made from supplying ‘instant mee’ to the armed forces

DAP to contest about 8 seats in the Sabah State General Election

Speech Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, at the official opening of the Rasa DAP Branch and the Rasa DAP Branch Dinner at Rasa New Village on Sunday, 22nd Feb. 1981 at 7 pm

DAP to contest about 8 seats in the Sabah State General Election

The DAP will contest about 8 seats in the Sabah State General Election. This will be another opportunity for the DAP to seek to widen and deepen Malaysian support throughout the country for the long-term, national political struggle for a Malaysian Malaysia, where every Malaysian citizen, regardless of race, language, culture or religion, whether in Sabah, Sarawak or Peninsular Malaysia, will enjoy equal citizenship rights as a Malaysia. Continue reading DAP to contest about 8 seats in the Sabah State General Election

Conditions of detention

(Speech by the Parliamentary Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on the Development Supplementary Estimates (1979) during the Committee Stage on April 3, 1979)

In the first development supplementary estimates 1979 for the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Government is asking for an addition $1 million for the
building of the Simpang Rengam Detention Camp in Johore. This follows the revision of the original estimates of $7 million to be spent on the project under the Third Malaysia Plan from 1976 – 1980 to $15 million.

Recently, the Bar Council sent a memorandum to the Ministry of Home Affairs on ill-treatment of political detainees in Taiping and Batu Gajah detention camps, on poor medical treatments, prolonged solitary confinements, hand-cuffing of political detainees going to hospital for treatment which is degrading and humiliating; deprivation of correspondence and from home, and others. Although the Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, Datuk Syed Sheh Shabuddin, immediately denied the Bar Council allegations, the denial is not convincing or satisfactory, as it is self-serving. Continue reading Conditions of detention

Call on Police to take action against MP for Kinabalu, Mark Koding, for questioning Article 152 of the Constitution guaranteeing the position of the other languages

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary – General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in Parliament House on 26.10.78:

Call on Police to take action against MP for Kinabalu, Mark Koding, for questioning Article 152 of the Constitution guaranteeing the position of the other languages

When I spoke in Parliament in the Royal Address debate on 13.10.1978, I draw the attention of the Minister for Law and Attorney – General, Datuk Hamzah and the Minister of Home Affairs, Tan Sri Ghazalie Shafie, to the speech which the MP for Kinabalu, Mark Koding, made in Parliament, calling for the closure of Chinese and Tamil primary schools, the banning of other languages on signboards, and the amendment of Article 152 of the Constitution to allow such measures to be taken. Continue reading Call on Police to take action against MP for Kinabalu, Mark Koding, for questioning Article 152 of the Constitution guaranteeing the position of the other languages

Lim Keng Yaik said in Sabah Yesterday that the Sabah Chinese are getting best treatment in Malaysian, and that the people should protect what they have

Lim Kit Siang replies for Lim Keng Yaik

Lim Keng Yaik said in Sabah Yesterday that the Sabah Chinese are getting best treatment in Malaysian, and that the people should protect what they have.

In west Malaysia, Malaysian chinese can see chinese films over T.V. twice a week but in Sabah ever since the introduction of tv, not a single time has a chinese language film been telecast over TV Sabah. Is this what Lim Keng Yaik meant by Sabah chinese getting the best deal in Malaysia? Continue reading Lim Keng Yaik said in Sabah Yesterday that the Sabah Chinese are getting best treatment in Malaysian, and that the people should protect what they have

Musa Hitam should act as a national leader who has the responsibility to look after the interests of Malaysians of all races

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary – General and Malacca DAP State Chairman, Lim Kit Siang, at the first post – election meeting of the Malacca DAP State Sub – Committee on Friday, 4th August 1978 at 8 p.m.

Musa Hitam should act as a national leader who has the responsibility to look after the interests of Malaysians of all races and not as a petty UMNO official trying to woo maximum votes in coming UMNO General Assembly

Last Wednesday, at a Malacca National Front elections thanksgiving dinner, the Education Minister, Datuk Musa Hitam, made a very fierce attack on the DAP and alleged that we won 16 Parliamentary seats because of support of one race. He also said that the National Front had no intention of changing its education policy adopted since Merdeka in 1957. Continue reading Musa Hitam should act as a national leader who has the responsibility to look after the interests of Malaysians of all races

Challenge to Berjaya State Government on corruption in Sabah

By DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, on July 19, 1978:

Challenge to Berjaya State Government on corruption in Sabah

I reply to my call to Sabah Chief Minister, Datuk Harris Salleh, to Review various aspects of government policies following the general elections results last Saturday, the Berjaya Secretary-General and State Finance Minister, has commented on one of the issues I raised, namely on corruption in Sabah.

Haji Mohammad Noor Haji Mansoor, the Sabah Finance Minister, said Sabah Ministers were prepared to declare their assets if it was the usual practice in Malaysia and other countries of the world. Continue reading Challenge to Berjaya State Government on corruption in Sabah