Lim Guan Eng
A bank senior executive who is now the 4th Chief Minister of the State of Penang, he is also the Secretary-General of the Malaysian Democratic Action Party (DAP).
- PJ La Salle Primary English School
- Batu Pahat Montfort Primary English School
- Batu Pahat High School
- Malacca High School
- Monash University, Australia (Bachelor of Economics)
Bank senior executive
- MP for Kota Melaka, 1986 - 1995 (3 terms)
- DAPSY chairman, DAP 1989
- DAPSY chairman, DAP 1992.
- DAP Deputy Secretary-General, DAP 1995.
- Secretary-General, DAP 2004.
- MP for Bagan, Penang, 2008 - present.
- ADUN for Air Putih, Penang, 2008 - present.
- Chief Minister of Penang, 2008 - present.
- Detained under the Internal Security Act, or ISA, for 18 months (Operation Lalang), October 1987 – April 1989.
- Charged under the Sedition Act for ‘prompting disaffection with the administration of justice’ after he publicly criticized the government's handling of allegations of statutory rape made against the former Chief Minister of Malacca, Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Tamby Chik, in 1994. He was also charged under the Printing Presses and Publications Act (PPPA) in connection with ‘maliciously’ printing a pamphlet containing allegedly ‘false information’ because he had described the alleged rape victim as an ‘imprisoned victim’ because she was initially detained by Malaysian police without parental consent for 10 days. After a series of appeals, Lim was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment in August 1998.
Resources: http://limguaneng.com/index.php/biodata/
Steven Sim
