Media statement by DAP National Political Education Director and MP for Kluang Liew Chin Tong on 6th April 2016 in Parliament House Through a Parliamentary Question, I have asked for very specific information from the Government on the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail project, namely…
In a reply to my parliamentary question on the High Speed Rail by Minister in Prime Minister’s Department Dato’ Sri Abdul Wahid Omar, it is obvious that both the Minister/Ministry of Transport and Cabinet are bypassed in the decision making process. According to Wahid, a…
A New Deal for Sarawak – through devolution of education, health, municipal policing, transport powers, backed by a much higher tax sharing between federal and Sarawak governments (say, 50 percent of income taxes collected in the state) – should be the central campaign theme for…
UMNO Information Chief Annuar Musa probably thinks of himself as “walking on water” now that he has pulled off the Kelantan Declaration which neutralised Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, a man who for the past 40 years was the permanent prime ministerial aspirant. Razaleigh returned to UMNO…
Barisan Nasional spin doctors have been working overtime to create an impression that the DAP Secretary-General and Penang Chief Minister, Lim Guan Eng, has abused his power for personal gains. They are spreading the lie that Guan Eng had bought a house at discounted price…
There was very little prospect of winning elections, not to mention running government, when Dr. Chen Man Hin and the first generation leaders formed the DAP, with Lim Kit Siang as the party’s sole full-time staff, on 18th March 1966. As Lim Kit Siang puts…
Yesterday, my parliamentary question on the expenditures of AV-8 (8×8 armored vehicle) and Second Generation Patrol Vessel (SGPV) projects was turned down because it was classified under the Official Secrets Act (OSA). I am disappointed by the Speaker’s decision to gag this legitimate question. Why…
Malaysians are dissapointed that the Government went ahead to seal the deal in Dhaka yesterday (18th February 2016) to bring in 1.5 million Bangladeshi workers over the next three years. This deal will allow the Bangladeshi workers employment in the construction, service, manufacturing, and agriculture…
I am often sympathetic to the precarious position of Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin in UMNO as one of the last few in UMNO who has intellectual prowess to comprehend sophicated policy matters. Sadly, I am proven wrong. On the issue of the 1.5…
Over the past few days in Kuching and in Kluang, Defense Minister Hishammudin Hussein was asked by the press to comment on the presence of China’s coast guard vessels in Malaysian waters and gave some of the most bizarre and puzzling responses, which could have…
To all Malaysians who created the GE14 miracle, keep fighting. We will be back stronger.