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…
I have written to the Setiausaha Dewan Rakyat Datuk Roosme, with copies to Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin and DAP Whip Loke Siew Fook, on my medical leave from the 26th and 27th January sitting. I am still recovering from Bell’s palsy, a paralysis of…
Speech by DAP National Political Education Director, Liew Chin Tong, when tabling the motion in the party’s transformational debate during the DAP National Retreat 2016 on 16th January 2016 at Grand Dorsett Hotel, Subang Jaya, Selangor. (Liew Chin Tong is recovering from Bell’s palsy. This…
Are the recent 1MBD “firesale” of energy deals with China-linked companies in the national interest? Will those sales compromise the long-held neutrality of Malaysia’s strategic posturing? 2015 saw the intensification of United States – China competition in the Southeast Asia region. Malaysia is being courted…
Media statement by DAP Johor Chairman and MP for Kluang Liew Chin Tong on 6th July 2015 Tengku Adnan, Khaled Nordin, apologise to Kit Siang! UMNO Secretary-General Tengku Adnan Mansor and Johor Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Khaled Nordin who is also Pasir Gudang UMNO division…