Earth Day statement by Johor Opposition Leader Liew Chin Tong on 23 April 2022 After the massive floods in December 2021, I hope on this Earth Day in 2022, Malaysians would at least agree that climate change is not fictional and not something distant that…
Brief response by former Minister of Defence Mohamad Sabu and former Deputy Minister of Defence Liew Chin Tong Minister of Defence Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein announced that the Cabinet has agreed to proceed with the Littoral Combat Ship project. The LCS project is a vendor-driven…
DAP was founded this day 56 years ago, on 18 March 1966. Up until 1990, DAP struggled to survive as it had to face persistent clampdown from the state machinery of the Alliance/Barisan Nasional (BN) government. BN held onto power by playing its two-pronged trump…
Yesterday evening, I spoke to Menteri Besar-designate Dato’ Hasni Mohammad over a phone call. I congratulated him for the victory of Barisan Nasional in the 15th Johor State Election. I stated that we will play the role of a constructive opposition and when it comes…
Fourteen years ago today, on 8 March 2008, the first political tsunami happened, and I was elected as the Member of Parliament for Bukit Bendera, and DAP as well as its allies formed the Penang state government. The party leadership had asked me to contest…
The old ways are no longer working. We need a new deal. Reject the old, give the new a chance. In 2018, Pakatan Harapan became the government but a group of greedy politicians betrayed the people’s trust. The answer is not bringing back the discredited…
I have contested in elections since 2008. But this is the first time I am contesting a state seat, at the instruction of the party’s leadership. Interestingly, the state seat of Perling in Johor that I am vying for now has more than a hundred…
UMNO had toppled the Pakatan Harapan government. UMNO had also toppled the Muhyiddin government. Now UMNO is putting pressure on its own Prime Minister Dato’ Sri Ismail Sabri Yaakob. And UMNO even forced its own state government in Johor to call for this snap election!
To move forward in turbulent times, Malaysia needs to end silos and band-aid, piecemeal solutions in our reform efforts. We have to think system. It means getting all the acts together. In the years to come, unprecedented uncertainties will be the norms, not exceptions.…
Johor makes history each time Malaysia is at a turning point. When the Malays rose up against the Malayan Union proposal in 1946, UMNO was formed in Johor. When the Alliance and later Barisan Nasional needed a base in both Malaya and Malaysia, Johor was…