Here comes DAPSY for the anti-Lynas rally!

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Press Release by YB Wong Kah Woh, the State Assemblyman for Canning at Wisma DAP on 25/02/2012 (Saturday):-

Here comes DAPSY for the anti-Lynas rally!

(Ipoh, 25.02.2012)

A bus of 60 members, led by the Democratic Action Party Socialist Youth (DAPSY) Perak chief, YB Wong Kah Woh headed to the Kuantan anti-Lynas assembly under the banner of DAPSY. DAPSY was open to the participation from all Perakians for the two-day trip.

Wong said, after much preparation and hard work by everyone of nearly three weeks, DAPSY succeeded in recruiting more than 60 party members and public to join in support and the response is very encouraging. In addition to the two buses arranged by DAPSY, many other members will be joining by car, which will bring the total number of members to anti-lynas gathering to more than a hundred.

Wong said that the People is left with no choice but a mass gathering and protest to put pressure on the BN government to listen to the People. The people are prepared to fight and defend their rights as well as the rights of the next generation as the government is bent on the construction of the controversial Lynas rare earth plants.

“At the first place, why should the plant be set up in Malaysia? We want to let the people of Kuantan know that they are not alone in the battle against lynas!”

Wong also pointed out that the DAPSY delegation to the huge rally is in order to give support and encouragement to the people of Kuantan. It is a show of action that DAPSY is very determined.

Democratic Action Party

YB Wong Kah Woh : a Dato’ was given RM500 under the BR1M scheme, however, a blind man’s M application was rejected

Press Release by YB Wong Kah Woh, the State Assemblyman for Canning at Wisma DAP on 18/02/2012 (Saturday) at 11am:-

After the case in Pahang whereby a Dato’ was given RM500 under the BR1M scheme was revealed, what followed was a totally different case. In Ipoh, a blind man was rejected the same amount of money.

YB Wong Kah Woh revealed this shocking case in a press conference. He said that the giving away of money needs to be flexible in order to ensure that all the money available are channeled to those in real need.

The blind man, Peter Padian, is currently staying in the Ipoh Garden East Flats. He is 58 years old and was informed in January 2012 by the Ministry of Finance that his application was rejected. Indeed, he was very frustrated.

Wong said that Peter’s friend attempted to check on Peter’s case at the counter set up in LHDN but was treated extremely rudely. Wong has checked with LHDN and was informed that the reason Peter was rejected the RM500 is because Peter is below 60 years old and has no dependant.

However, Peter is 90% blind and is supporting himself by selling tissues every day. Sadly, his case was rejected on a technical ground. Wong said that if the money is not given to every citizen, at the very least it should be channeled to those who are in need. The government needs to be flexible in order to avoid the cases such as the one concerning the Dato’ in Pahang and in Peter’s case.

“This is ridiculous, ludicrous and against any sense of logical mind!” Wong added.

He also said that the government needs to show sincerity at their same time. Right now, the giving away of money has become a political gimmick for BN’s local leaders before the general election. This has caused a lot of inconvenience to the people.

Wong will help Peter in his appeal and urged the government to act immediately. This matter will be raised by YB Lim in parliament if the matter is not resolved. We believe that this is just the tip of the iceberg and there are many more similar cases.

DAP

DAP urge the Perak State Govt to convene an emergency state assembly sitting to announce the result of investigation and measure to combat the epidemic due to the infection by rota virus

(15/02/2012)

More than 3,000 people had been admitted to Hospital & so far 2 dead case had been reported due to infection by rota virus citing the unknown reason in Perak. This epidemic had been happening in Perak for more than 30 days especially at Lower Perak and Batang Padang but no official report had been announced and no one had been held responsible for this imminent danger. Yesterday alone, 251 new cases had been reported making the total number of patient stand at 3068 cases.

DAP urge the Perak State Govt to convene an emergency state assembly sitting to announce the result of investigation and measure to combat this epidemic which if not handle in time, will cause further lives of the innocent people.