Lim Kit Siang

Removing Quotas in International Schools A Positive Development

Kit — Sun, 27 May 2012 10:45:27 +0000

by M. Bakri Musa In striking contrast to the horrendously expensive and unbelievably stupid idea of sending our teacher-trainees to Kirby, the Ministry of Education’s other decision to remove quotas on local enrollment in international schools is very much welcomed and definitely positive. The Minister confidently assured us that because of the small number of [...]

Increasing campaign violence

Kit — Sun, 27 May 2012 04:00:56 +0000

- The Malaysian Insider May 27, 2012 MAY 27 — Here’s the dichotomy. Umno president Datuk Seri Najib Razak is working hard to get the people’s support. From anywhere in Malaysia to the O2 arena in London. But some of his followers are pelting their political foes with eggs and stones. The case in point [...]

Is Mahathir telling the world that his daughter Marina is naïve to be a pawn of Bersih 3.0 and PR to topple the Najib government by violence?

Kit — Sun, 27 May 2012 00:28:06 +0000

Malaysians must thank former Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir for furnishing the fifth evidence of the highest-level campaign to vilify and demonise Bersih 3.0 and Pakatan Rakyat and why the Hanif Omar “independent advisory panel” to investigate into Bersih 3.0 violence is totally unacceptable and should be scrapped altogether. The four evidence were earlier provided [...]

Berjuang untuk perubahan memang susah

Kit — Sat, 26 May 2012 17:07:36 +0000

— Aspan Alias The Malaysian Insider May 26, 2012 26 MEI — Memperjuangkan yang benar itu amat susah dan tidak ada jalan yang senang dan mudah. Sebaik sahaja manusia itu ingin perubahan untuk kebaikan ia akan tetap mendapat reaksi serta merta. Bak kata seorang ulamak yang muktabar, “jalan ke syurga itu berduri-duri dan beronak, jalan [...]

We shall overcome

Kit — Sat, 26 May 2012 14:24:38 +0000

— Jacob Sinnathamby The Malaysian Insider May 26, 2012 MAY 26 — Can you hear it? Listen closely. Now can you hear it? I am talking about the deafening silence from the prime minister downwards on the burgeoning violence and thuggish behaviour by Umno and its subsidiaries. What happened at the PKR ceramah in Lembah [...]

Malaysia after regime change

Kit — Sat, 26 May 2012 14:08:36 +0000

– Greg Felker New Mandala May 26th, 2012 Credibility and the search for a new developmental model In comparative politics the word “regime” refers to the formal and informal institutions by which political power is acquired and exercised. In political economy, a regime refers to an enduring combination of “socio-economic alliances, political-economic institutions, and a [...]

A reply to Umno Youth’s challenge to debate

Kit — Sat, 26 May 2012 08:13:23 +0000

Hiu Woong-Sin Malaysiakini May 25, 2012 An open reply to Umno Youth’s challenge to a debate published in The Star over my ‘heckling’ of PM Najib Razak in London: Dear Khairun Aseh, There is enough evidence on YouTube to substantiate my act of chanting “Bersih” (during Najib’s event in London). I do not know what [...]

Instead of raging over Mahathir’s outrageous and preposterous blog, Malaysians should commiserate with him

Kit — Sat, 26 May 2012 07:38:22 +0000

Yesterday, former Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir blogged that the Bersih 3.0 rally was a “preparation” and “warm-up” by Pakatan Rakyat for violent demonstrations to reject the results of the 13th general election should the opposition fail to win it. He said: “Their defeat will be followed by violent demonstrations that will go on and [...]

Perubahan tetap akan berlaku, yang penting bersabar

Kit — Sat, 26 May 2012 05:35:59 +0000

— Aspan Alias The Malaysian Insider May 25, 2012 25 MEI — Bergiat dalam politik hari ini merupakan satu aktiviti yang bukan sedikit seriknya. Politik tanahair hari ini merupakan politik yang paling getir sekali yang belum pernah kita alami selama ini. Bahangnya panas terik dan ianya hanya boleh digiatkan oleh mereka yang benar-benar yakin dan [...]

Police appeared to have bad faith, says Pak Samad

Kit — Sat, 26 May 2012 02:09:59 +0000

By Nigel Aw | 1:48PM May 25, 2012 Malaysiakini INTERVIEW Observations made by a number of Bersih 3.0 participants during the April 28 rally are that many of the policemen on duty that day were somehow different from the usual courteous officers and men patrolling neighbourhoods. Their uniforms did not have the shinny numbers and [...]

Najib and Hishammuddin must condemn and dissociate themselves if they do not want to be regarded as encouraging a political culture of aggression, thuggery and violence by their prolonged silence on recent series of disruptions and attacks on PR functions

Kit — Fri, 25 May 2012 07:25:35 +0000

The question Malaysians are asking is whether the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak and the Home Minister, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussin are encouraging a political culture of aggression, thuggery and violence by their failure to condemn the recent series of disruptions and attacks on Pakatan Rakyat functions! Is this the route for Malaysia to [...]

Best democracy in the world – mobocracy

Kit — Fri, 25 May 2012 04:07:49 +0000

By Mariam Mokhtar | May 25, 2012 Free Malaysia Today The Malaysians who oppose clean, free and fair elections, otherwise known as Umno and their cronies, have claimed two casualties; democracy and the rule of law. In place of democracy, we now have mobocracy. S Ambiga and her neighbours have been targeted. Now anything to [...]

Ambiga a victim of race and religion, says Pak Samad

Kit — Fri, 25 May 2012 03:55:32 +0000

By Nigel Aw | 4:00PM May 24, 2012 Malaysiakini Today, as Bersih co-chairperson Ambiga Sreenevasan’s Bukit Damansara residence is turned into a bizarre combination of a mini market, crime scene and conflict zone with pro- and anti-Ambiga groups taking their positions under the watchful eyes of the authorities outside her house, it is business as [...]

‘Then there was Hang Tuah, now Hang Samseng’

Kit — Fri, 25 May 2012 03:45:12 +0000

By Nigel Aw | 3:19PM May 23, 2012 Malaysiakini During the glorious days of the Malacca sultanate, the legendary warrior Hang Tuah, leading his four other ‘Hang’ companions, stood out as a symbol of pride for the Malay kingdom. But in modern Malacca, ‘Hang Samseng’ (gangster) have emerged, lamented Bersih co-chairperson A Samad Said, in [...]

Bersih supporter hit by tear gas may lose sight in one eye

Kit — Fri, 25 May 2012 03:25:04 +0000

By Susan Loone | 1:02PM May 24, 2012 Malaysiakini One the most serious victims of tear gas during the chaos of Bersih 3.0 rally has come forward today to tell his tale of woe. Asrul Wadi Ahmad, 26, from Kepala Batas, has been reviewed by four doctors and may be diagnosed as blind in the [...]

Najib has discarded the robes of “the Great Transformer” for those of “the Great Reactionary” signaling he is no more prepared to listen to the real voices of the people for change

Kit — Thu, 24 May 2012 09:24:52 +0000

The Najib government’s gross mishandling of Bersih 3.0 of April 28 is proving to be even more disastrous than its initial mishandling of Bersih 2.0 of July 9, 2011. At least, the Najib administration realized in the nick of time and reined in its excessive over-reactions to the Bersih 2.0, performing a volte face two [...]

World Bank warns there will be no high income economy for Malaysia without implementing structural reforms

Kit — Thu, 24 May 2012 07:52:51 +0000

By Dr Chen Man Hin, DAP life advisor The World Bank in its bi-annual report on East Asia and the the Pacific said that in view of the slow down in the economy in the years ahead, due to a massive world debit problem, the GDP of Malaysia would slow down to 4.6% this year [...]

Legal action against Bersih sparks renewed scrutiny of new assembly law

Kit — Thu, 24 May 2012 07:01:53 +0000

By Shannon Teoh The Malaysian Insider May 24, 2012 KUALA LUMPUR, May 24 — The use of the Peaceful Assembly Act (PAA) to claim damages from organisers of the April 28 Bersih rally has sparked condemnation from opposition politicians who are now claiming that the new law restricts the right to gather even more than [...]

Stop personal attacks on Ambiga, invasion of her privacy and show decency and mutual respect

Kit — Thu, 24 May 2012 06:43:19 +0000

Joint Press Statement by Bersih 3.0 Perak and Coalition of 51 NGOs 24.05.2012 Stop personal attacks on Dato’ Ambiga Sreenevasan. Stop Invasion of Privacy. Show Decency and Mutual Respect Malaysians and in particular Perakians have followed with increasing disgust the persistent attacks on Bersih 3.0 Steering Committee Co-Chairperson Dato’ Ambiga Sreenevasan to intimidate and “break” [...]

Utusan Malaysia just produced latest proof that UMNO/BN totally against clean, free and fair elections, especially Bersih 2.0’s Demand to “Stop Dirty Politics”

Kit — Thu, 24 May 2012 05:28:14 +0000

The UMNO daily, Utusan Malaysia, has just produced the latest proof that UMNO/BN is totally against clean, free and fair elections, especially Bersih 2.0’s Demand to “Stop Dirty Politics”. As I tweeted earlier this morning: “When DAP appears on Utusan Malaysia front-page, it is bad news/political trouble because distortion n unethical/dishonest journalism at play”. DAP [...]