| 29/9/97 |
Since the 1990 haze, the government had been talking about a "haze contingency plan" which had never materialised despite the haze becoming increasingly worse in 1991, 1994 and now 1997 |
| 27/9/97 |
Proposal that Tan Sri Ghazalie Shafie take over as Chairman of the
National Disaster Management and Relief Committee to help restore public
confidence in the government’s handling of the haze disaster |
| 26/9/97 |
The Indonesian Government should declare the raging thousands of forest
fires an international disaster following the Garuda jetcrash killing 234
and seek United Nations help |
| 26/9/97 |
Closure of Penang Airport yesterday and today although API was in
the "unhealthy" level and not "very unhealty" or "hazardous"
has deepened the crisis of confidence in the API among the people of Penang |
| 25/9/97 |
Malaysian Government should declare a national disaster and send out
SOS to South Korea and the United States for massive supply of suitable
masks for the Malaysian population |
| 25/9/97 |
Call on Anwar to put the health and welfare of people above money and
revive the Clean Air Action Plan which was rejected by Cabinet three months
ago because of financial considerations |
| 25/9/97 |
Urgent fax to Mohamed Rahmat to show government fully serious and committed
to address haze emergency by putting up hourly updates of API on the DOE
website as well as making daily API forecasts for the next day |
| 24/9/97 |
All Sarawak State Ministers should show themselves on television to
convince the public that they are still in the state |
| 24/9/97 |
Ministers should stop making thoughtless and contradictory statements
which show their total helplessness as this only further undermine public
confidence which is already at an all-time low |
| 23/9/97 |
Malaysia has achieved another impossibility - the API in Kuching overshooting
the 800 mark while the KLSE CI falling below 800 mark |
| 22/9/97 |
Penang State Government should ensure that there is API monitoring
station for Georgetown to keep track of air quality on the island |
| 22/9/97 |
DAP calls for daily meeting of ASEAN Environment Ministers through
videoconferencing on the haze crisis and urges Indonesian Government to
internationalise the disaster of the raging thousands of forest fires |
| 22/9/97 |
Did Mahathir expect his Hong Kong statements to undermine government’s
recent efforts to restore investor confidence after the twin currency and
stock market crises? |
| 21/9/97 |
DAP veterans should create space for the emergence of new blood in
leadership positions to help in the party renewal process to bring about
a New DAP |
| 21/9/97 |
Malaysia
must learn from the haze emergency and adopt a two-pronged approach |
| 20/9/97 |
DAP gives "no politicking" pledge on haze crisis but will
not be deterred from speaking up about weaknesses and failures of government
efforts in the best and highest interests of Malaysians |
| 20/9/97 |
Why is the DOE and the National Disaster Relief Management Committee
unable to provide hourly API updates over radio, television and Internet
when the country is faced with a national disaster with the worst air pollution
in history |
| 19/9/97 |
DAP calls
for an urgent summit of ASEAN heads of governments affected by haze to
declare an ASEAN state of environment emergency |
| 19/9/97 |
Government should give top priority to set up API monitoring stations
in Sibu, Miri and Bintulu not only in view of the vastness of the state
but because of its proximity to Kalimantan – the primary source of haze
for Sarawak |
| 18/9/97 |
Negotiated tender system one of the main causes of corruption, abuses
of power and waste of public funds |
| 18/9/97 |
Continuous slide in the stock market shows that restoration of investor
confidence remains a central issue in Malaysian economy |
| 18/9/97 |
Malaysia needs an Anti-Haze Supremo apart from Mohamad Rahmat to convince
the people that the government is serious in fighting the haze crisis |
| 17/9/97 |
Call on Chavalit Government of Thailand to immediately release and
not to turn over the three ministers of Burma’s government-in-exile to
SLORC or Thailand must bear full responsibility for their safety and future |
| 17/9/97 |
Suharto’s apology is inadequate unless Indonesia is prepared to allow
an ASEAN Haze Committee to have full powers to stop the raging forest fires
in Indonesia which are choking Malaysia and neighbouring countries |
| 16/9/97 |
How can government show its seriousness in fighting the national haze
situation when it has diluted instead of tightened the anti-haze plan which
was approved by the Cabinet three weeks ago on August 20? |
| 15/9/97 |
Call for a total revamp of the National Haze Committee which has proved
to be ineffective, inefficient and not serious in fighting the worst air
pollution in Malaysian history |
| 14/9/97 |
Malaysia might have avoided the worst of the twin currency and stock
market crisis in July and August if there had been more press freedom allowing
for diversity of opinions and views |
| 13/9/97 |
Cabinet should declare a state of environmental emergency to implement
the Clean Air Action Plan to address the long-term problem of air pollution
as well as to mobilize national support for sustainable development |
| 12/9/97 |
Call on the
Attorney-General and the police not to apply the Computer Crimes Act
against non-malicious hacking like the hacking of the Perak government
homepage but to first focus on educating all teenagers about the severity
of the law |
| 12/9/97 |
Anwar Ibrahim should clarify on the IMF report that it had sounded
an advance alarm about Malaysia’s vulnerability to an economic crisis a
year ago |
| 12/9/97 |
Election judge declaring Wong Sing Ai’s election as Sarawak Assemblyman
for Kidurong null and void and ordering a new by-election most shocking
and unexpected |
| 12/9/97 |
Resignation of Chong Eng from the Penang State Assembly Standing Orders
Committee a right and proper step as the proposal to limit time for Assembly
members undemocratic, unwarranted and bad precedent |
| 11/9/97 |
Call on Government to demonstrate that its advocacy of "Asian
Values" and the review of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
does not signal the further denial and erosion of fundamental political
and civil liberties of Malaysians |
| 11/9/97 |
Call on Anwar to set a target to reduce the current accounts deficit
to two per cent of GNP in his budget speech on Oct 17 |
| 10/9/97 |
DAP welcomes Education Ministry announcement to connect all the 9,000
primary and secondary schools to the Internet by 1999 but want a full report
in Parliament next month as to how this could be achieved |
| 9/9/97 |
DAP’s historic Bagan by-election victory was the first salvo of a new
crusade to uphold democracy, justice and integrity in Malaysia and to create
a New DAP after the worst DAP electoral defeat in the 1995 general elections |
| 9/9/97 |
The Barisan Nasional Government should be more democratic and be prepared
for an open contest of ideas with opposition parties by lifting its ban
on political parties from selling their periodicals to the public |
| 8/9/97 |
DAP welcomes government decision to introduce Data Protection legislation
and calls for the appointment of a national data protection agency to protect
rights of ordinary citizens in an information society |
| 7/9/97 |
DAP calls on government to abandon the ISA mentality, repeal Internal
Security Act and to allow for greater press freedom as two lessons from
the currency and stockmarket turmoils |
| 7/9/97 |
Call on Selangor to take the lead in Malaysia to instruct all municipalities
and local authorities to establish a special IT department and to draw
up a IT Plan to create "smart communities" in the state |
| 5/9/97 |
DAP welcomes
new government policy change on the real economic issues |
| 4/9/97 |
Three short-term proposals to help local investors to prop up the stock
market – one-month moratorium on margin calls and forced selling |
| 4/9/97 |
Any stock purchase plan must be open and transparent or it would be
a new element to undermine public confidence which would ultimately defeat
the object of the entire exercise |
| 4/9/97 |
Time for Penang to stop its political, economic and social decline
in the past two years |
| 3/9/97 |
Call on Leo Moggie to explain the outcome of government study on Data
Protection Act to protect the rights of ordinary citizens in e-commerce |
| 1/9/97 |
Call on all municipalities and local authorities to establish a special
IT department and to draw up a IT Plan to begin the process of creating
"smart communities" in Malaysia in keeping with the country’s
aim to leapfrog into the Information Society |
| 1/9/97 |
Although Malaysia has passed the Digital Signature Act it is still
behind Singapore in establishing a Digital Certification Authority |