“Mereka generasi yang sungguh-sungguh sayangi Malaysia.”

Kelmarin, selepas musyawarah kabinet, Perdana Menteri Dr Mahathir Mohamad telah mengumumkan pembentukan Tabung Harapan Malaysia untuk membolehkan rakyat Malaysia memberikan sumbangan untuk menangani hutang negara. Ramai yang menyokong usaha ini. Di internet saya nampak ada yang telah pun memuat naik keratan slip bank bukti sumbangan mereka sejurus selepas pengumuman. Ada yang menyatakan hasrat untuk menderma…

GE14: A people’s election

In the hilly land to the north of Johannesburg, on the wall opposite the Bench, in the Constitutional Court of South Africa, nestled in the Old Prison Fort where Nelson Mandela, and Mahatma Gandhi were once imprisoned, the bricks were red, dirty and unpainted. Each time the Bench convene, and as the judges face the…

This Labour Day, let us recognise the labour of love by homemakers

Media statement by Sim Chee Keong, Pakatan Harapan candidate for P.45 Bukit Mertajam parliamentary constituency 01 MAY 2018 | BUKIT MERTAJAM, PENANG For more than a hundred years, every year on 1 May, workers and the working classes are celebrated on Labour Day. It originated from the struggle of the labour movement advocating for an…

Rakyat Malaysia, syarikat tempatan dan kerajaan negeri sekalipun dikenakan GST manakala syarikat asing diberi pelepasan GST

Kenyataan media Steven Sim, calon Pakatan Harapan Parlimen Bukit Mertajam P.45 18 APRIL 2018 | BUKIT MERTAJAM, PULAU PINANG Jabatan Kastam telah mengaku bahawa kerajaan pusat memberikan pelepasan Cukai Barangan dan Perkhidmatan (GST) kepada syarikat asing, China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) yang terlibat dalam projek Laluan Keretapi Pantai Timur (ECRL) yang bernilai RM55 bilion. (Sumber:…

Najib’s latest annoucement of old, recycled and previously unfulfilled election promises confirmed UMNO-BN treats Penangites as nincompoops

Media statement by Steven Sim, DAP-Pakatan Harapan GE14 candidate for Bukit Mertajam 14 APRIL 2018 | BUKIT MERTAJAM Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Razak on his visit to Penang last Thursday announced that if Barisan Nasional wins, the government will abolish Penang Bridge toll for motorcyclists, and build 65,000 units of affordable housing in Penang. Clearly,…

Bukit Mertajam will lead the GE14 battle in Penang

Five years ago, on 19 April 2013, I was named as the DAP candidate for Bukit Mertajam in the 13th General Election. I accepted the responsibility with much trembling and fear: On one hand I was proud to be able to stand in the frontline especially to represent my “kampung”, Bukit Mertajam, in the battle…

Today is finally the last day of Parliament

Today is finally THE last day of Parliament for this term. Because we do not practice a fixed-term, and the power to dissolve Parliament is solely in the hands of the Prime Minister, we have been kept guessing when will be the dissolution in the past 18 months. So I know, many MPs including me…

A strange week in Parliament

When elections near, strange things happen. But how strange was last week? We had a ghost come to Parliament… but I am getting ahead of myself. Let me begin with Monday, March 26. The week opened with three DAP lawmakers, Ngeh Koo Ham (Beruas), Nga Kor Ming (Taiping), and V Sivakumar (Batu Gajah), being suspended…

A Ghost in Parliament

A ghost came to Parliament today, His voice haunted the Lower House, The honourable members heard him say, “Recall thy vows, recall thy vows.” The Speaker said he cannot see, The ghost whose voice we hear, A minister taunted haughtily, “The voice is all too familiar!” ‘Twas a voice which reverberated, In many a noble…

Let Malays be more Malay, says DAP lawmaker

Originally published in The Malaysian Insight. By Looi Sue-Chern. MALAYSIA cannot do away with identity politics, which is shaped by one's religion, ethnic, culture, language, social class, gender and other aspects of their identity, said DAP lawmaker Steven Sim. The Bukit Mertajam MP said it was the wrong question to ask people whether they identified…