Lim Guan Eng
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Lim Guan Eng is the Chief Minister of Penang.
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Government History
2008-current: Chief Minister of Penang
Political History
Personal History
Quotes
In The News
- 28 April 2008 (The Star): Lim Guan Eng calls the rerouting of Entrepreneur and Cooperative Development ministry funds through bodies such as MARA instead of the State Economic Development Corporations a new form of colonialism.
03 April 2008 (NST): Emerging from a half-hour meeting with Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi at Putrajaya, Lim said the prime minister explained that the national oil corporation could not fund Penang's second bridge.
- 03 April 2008 (The Star): At an opening of a new DAP service centre in Taman Tambun, Lim announces that the special investigation panel finds another land fraud case amounting to 13 million ringgit.
- 03 April 2008 (The Star) Lim has been asked by Mark Ooi, the former political secretary to Tan Sri [Dr Koh Tsu Koon, to clarify the ownership of a 1.52ha land in Rifle Range and stop an SMS rumour implicating his predecessor.
- 31 March 2008 (NST): Lim lashes out at RapidPenang manangement for not failing to inform the state government about the problems faced by the bus company.
- 29 March 2008 (NST): Lim refutes the contention by Petronas that the company does not fund infrastructure projects, citing KLCC Property Holdings and Putrajaya Holdings as examples.
- 29 March 2008 (NST): Lim announces that the state government special land investigative committee would conduct its own probe as the state government is not satisfied with the ACA investigations.
- 27 March 2008 (The Star): YB Lim announces that a government order of 6 new Perdana cars worth RM623,000 will be cancelled. The state government was proposing a subway to help improve the state’s public transportation system, but it will cost 3-4 times more than the elevated monorail. The federal government remains the financier. He would also appeal to Abdullah to restore some funding under the Ninth Malaysia Plan for the state which was reduced “substantially”.
- 23 March 2008 (NST): Lim Guan Eng announced that DAP elected representatives in Penang will not be allowed to apply for state government land as a measure of anti-corruption.
- 22 March 2008 (The Star): Lim Guan Eng announced that uncovered improprieties in the previous government's practices that could cause a huge contingent liability for the state and has set up a panel to investigate “land improprieties” amounting to “tens and tens of thousands of ringgit”. The panel consists of deputy CM-I Mohammad Fairus Khairuddin, deputy CM-II Dr P. Ramasamy and exco member Phee Boon Poh.
- 21 March 2008 (The Star): Lim Guan Eng attends a Maulidur Rasul celebration as the new MB of Penang.
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