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| 1999-05-25 | Why does DAP apologise for campaigning? No one looks into the broader impact of these incipient retorts,
but they exist in every political party, in the National Front and
Opposition, except PAS. The long tenure of party leaders produce
intractible problems within. Mr Lim himself has headed the DAP for
nearly three decades. Dato' Seri S. Samy Vellu would soon mark the 21st
year as MIC president. Dato' Seri Ling Liong Sik remains head of the
MCA for more than a decade. The Prime Minister for 19 years. The
Gerakan leader, Dato' Seri Ling Kheng Yaik, has outlived his usefulness
in his party. But they cling on to office. Nothing grows underneath a
banyan tree. The Indian Congress Party's sudden leadership vaccuum can
be traced to the dominant hold the Nehru family had on it in
post-independent India. The overwhelming power vested in Partly
Leader's hands ensures a pliant following, with those who challenge them
forced out of the party. This is as true in UMNO as it is in the DAP.
The short term advantageous are seen more important than the long term
view. This narrow focus reduces the parties to be at the beck and call
of its leaders in which dissent is severely dealt with.
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| 1998-03-16 | The "pasar rakyat" way to shopping malls But Dato' Seri Osu is a brilliant Bolehland cabinet minister --
in the same mould as Dato' Seri Ling Liong Sik, Dato' Seri S.
Samy Vellu, Dato' Seri Lim Kheng Yaik, Dato' Mohamed Rahmat -- who
will say the most inane, irrelevant obvious with great panache, if
only to prevent too inquisitive a look into the statements. In
Bolehland, as we all know, we are not to look at gift horses in the
mouth. So, Bolehlanders need only know why this pasar rakyat idea is
the best since the Seventh Day of Creation: "This system eliminates
the middleman, thus making goods cheaper and affordable and
affordable for the lower income group." This first site, where he
made this indelible piece of gobbledygood, in his ministry's car
park.
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| 1998-01-24 | Would Ekran get the RM700 million for work on Bakun not done? Standing in the way of this expectedly easy payment is the general
view of cabinet ministers that Ekran should not be paid a cent more
than what he was spent on the project. The market is abuzz with talk
of this disagreement. If this is true, this would be one of the rare
occasions when the Cabinet challenged the prime minister's view.
Although, it must be added, that he does have much support from those
ministers that matter -- Dato' Seri Ling Liong Sik, Dato' Seri Lim
Keng Yaik, Dato' Ting Chiew Peh, Dato' Seri Lim Ah Lek, Dato' S. Samy
Vellu, Dato' Law Hieng Ding. It is those UMNO Ministers who appear
to be making such a fuss.
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| 1997-08-08 | The MCA and Gerakan are at each other's throats again There is much seething beneath the surface amongst leaders of the
two main Chinese parties in the Barisan Nasional, the Malaysian
Chinese Association and the Gerkan Rakyat Malaysia. The Penang
chief minister, Tan Sri Koh Tsu Khoon (Gerakan), accuses the federal
transport minister, Dato' Seri Ling Liong Sik (MCA) for not
lobbying hard enough to ensure that its resiting plans for Bayan
Lepas airport; as it happens the new northern international
airport would be built, if present plans work out, in the mushy
reclaimed lands in Kedah. Dr Ling has been heard to mutter that
the MCA could confront the DAP, the "enemy", as he put it quaintly,
but not a "friend", Gerakan. That compliment is returned in double
measure. It looks could kill, both Dr Ling and his cabinet
colleague, the Gerakan president, Dato' Sri Lim Kheng Yaik, died a
long time ago.
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