The result of this was that the PAS won a number of Malay seats from UMNO, but many Chinese voters disapproved of this unnatural alliance with the Islamist PAS, causing the DAP to lose many of its seats to the MCA, including that of its veteran leader, Lim Kit Siang.

He was replying to queries from Opposition Leader Lim Kit Siang on the next course of action to be taken by Malaysia and Asean with the Burmese military junta.

In 1954, Lim Chin Siong, along with his Chinese High senior, Fong Swee Suan, was introduced to Lee Kuan Yew.

In April 1955, Lim Chin Siong was elected as Assemblyman for the Bukit Timah constituency.

On 7 June 1956, David Marshall, disappointed with the constitutional talks, stepped down as Chief Minister, and was replaced by Lim Yew Hock.

Lee Kuan Yew eventually accused Lim Chin Siong and his supporters of being Communists, though declassified British government documents later suggested that no evidence was ever found that Lim was a Communist.

According to Tan Jing Quee in the book " Comet in our Sky ", Lee Kuan Yew was being deceptive at this time: while pretending to be on the side of the jailed labour members of the PAP, he was secretly in collusion with the British to stop Lim Chin Siong and the labour supporters from attaining power, whom Lee had courted because of their huge popularity, without which Lee would most likely not have been able to attain power.

" Lee Kuan Yew was secretly a party with Lim Yew Hock "-adds Dr Greg Poulgrain of Griffiths University-" in urging the Colonial Secretary to impose the subversives ban in making it illegal for former political detainees to stand for election.

The principal breakthrough in soft lenses was made by the Czech chemists Otto Wichterle and Drahoslav Lim who published their work " Hydrophilic gels for biological use " in the journal Nature in 1959.

During the Marcos administration, drug trafficking was punishable by firing-squad execution, as was done to Lim Seng.

Genting Highlands was developed by Lim Goh Tong, who envisioned a hillside getaway destination for people wanting to get away from city hustle and bustle, and is conveniently situated 40 minutes from the capital of Kuala Lumpur, accessible by highway.

In 2005, the issue of voting along party lines was brought up when two Barisan National Members of Parliament ( MPs ), Bung Moktar Radin and Mohamed Aziz, supported a motion by Opposition leader Lim Kit Siang of the Democratic Action Party ( DAP ) to refer International Trade and Industry Ministry secretary Sidek Hassan to the Committee of Privileges.

* Lin Haiyin 林海音 ( 1918-2001 ; ancestral Jiaoling, Guangdong ; family came from Toufen, Miaoli, Taiwan ; born in Japan ; Hakka pronunciation: Lim Hoi Yim ), Taiwanese novelist whose memoirs, 城南旧事 ( My Memories of Old Beijing ), was made into a movie of the same name

Champa was preceded in the region by a kingdom called Lin-yi ( 林邑, Middle Chinese * Lim Ip ) or Lâm Ấp ( Vietnamese ) that was in existence from 192 AD ; the historical relationship between Lin-yi and Champa is not clear.

Luis Lim was appointed as the first governor of Zamboanga.

On June 6, 1952, the Republic Act 711, authored by Zamboanga Congressman Roseller Lim was passed by the Philippine House of Representatives to divide the province of Zamboanga to Zamboanga del Norte and Zamboanga del Sur, while the chartered City of Zamboanga was relegated its own independent area of city governance.

* With regard to the residence requirements, it was ruled in the case of Lim v. Pelaez that it must be the place where one habitually resides and to which he, after absence, has the intention of returning.

During the term of Mayor Alfredo Lim, an effort was made to " clean up " Ermita's image and reputation.

768 – 814 ), the first known Serbian monarch by name, ruled the hereditary lands ( Županias, counties ) of Neretva, Tara, Piva, Lim.

768 – 814 ), the first known Serbian monarch by name, ruled the hereditary lands ( Županias, counties ) of Neretva, Tara, Piva, Lim.

It builds upon many of the basic principles and techniques learned in the first Wing Chun open-hand form, Siu Lim Tao.

768-814 ), the first known Serbian monarch by name, ruled the hereditary lands ( Županias, counties ) of Neretva, Tara, Piva, Lim.

The votive statue bears a cuneiform inscription to Ishtar inscription of Ibbit Lim, an Amorite prince of Ebla, on its shoulder was the first evidence permitting the identification of the Tell with the ancient city of Ebla, whose location had been lost.

The first principal of ACJC in 1977 was Mr Chee Keng Lim.

Lim first emerged as a politician when he was National Organising Secretary of the DAP from 1966 to 1969.

Lim was first elected as an MP for the Bandar Melaka seat in 1969.

Lim Kit Siang together with his son Lim Guan Eng first visited his ancestral home in China in Nov 2008 ( reported in Chinapress ).

The first player to manage the outshot in the world championship was American player Paul Lim on January 9, 1990 against Ireland's Jack McKenna.

The success of the first company helped to accelerate the program and the establishment of the Third, Fourth and Fifth companies from July 1973 to January 1975 under the command of CPT Boon Hon Lin, CPT Lim Siang Tong and LTA Dominic Teo respectively.

Lim was born on 27 April 1909 to Lim Loh ( 林路 ; alias Lim Chee Gee ), a building constructor, as the 11th child but the first son in the family.

It was founded before the 1955 legislative council elections by David Saul Marshall, Singapore's first chief minister in 1955 and Lim Yew Hock, Singapore's second chief minister.

Lim published her first short story collection called Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore ( 1978 ), which showed the wit with which Lim is able to portray Singaporean society.

Dr Lim first crossed swords with the PAP in 1994 when she wrote a landmark article published in The Straits Times – PAP and the People: A Great Affective Divide, which peeved then Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong so much that his press secretary challenged her to enter politics and take responsibility for her views.

The first fully Singapore funded film came in 1991's Medium Rare, which was based on a real-life local cult killer, Adrian Lim, who was hanged in 1988 for murder.

Victor M. Power, Mayor of Timmins for 17 of the 20 years from 1980 to 2000, who did not stand in the 2000 municipal election, came out of retirement and was returned against one-term incumbent and the first female mayor of Timmins Jamie Lim.

Chiam first entered politics in 1976 when he contested as an independent candidate in Cairnhill constituency, where he lost to Minister for Communications and National Development Lim Kim San.

By 1983 Oh, See Lim, with the political problems and many of the original founding members of the association departing ( Ji Han Jae, Myung Jae Nam ), renamed the association by the name first used by Ji, the Dae Han Hapkido Hyub Hoe, with a new preferred English rendering and the new Korea Hapkido Federation was born.

Lim Hwee Hua, the first woman to be appointed a full minister to the Cabinet of Singapore, at the World Economic Forum on East Asia in Seoul, South Korea, on 19 June 2009.

On 1 April 2009, KCTU delegates at a special session elected Lim Seong-kyu as President.

The party currently has six elected seats in Parliament, with the party's Secretary-General Low Thia Khiang, Chairman Sylvia Lim, Chen Show Mao, Muhamad Faisal Manap and Pritam Singh serving as Members of Parliament ( MPs ) for the Aljunied Group Representation Constituency ( GRC ), and Png Eng Huat as the MP for the single-member constituency of Hougang.

The eventual outcome saw Lim Kit Siang, who had been elected in his constituency of Ipoh Timur with a majority of 10, 000 votes, formally elected as the leader of the opposition in Parliament, a post he had lost to the president of PAS in 1999.

Lim was then elected to an advisory role as the leader of a newly created body called the " Policy and Strategic Planning Commission ".

It noticeably fielded only 4 candidates in that GE: Secretary-General Chiam See Tong, Chairman Ling How Doong ( who was elected Chairman after the death of Fok Tai Loy ), Vice-Chairman Soon Kia Seng and treasurer Peter Lim Ah Yong.

Lim was elected as the party Secretary-General in 2004, and has held the position since.

The person responsible for sponsoring the bill was Congressman Q. Ubay of Zamboanga del Norte since during that time, Zamboanga del Sur had no congressman ; Rep. Roseller T. Lim that time had been elected to the Senate in the 1955 special election.

Oswaldo Barol ( 1955 – 67 ); Eulalio Angala Jr. ( 1967 – 79 ); Francisco M. dela Cruz ( 1979 – 86 ); then at the transition from the Marcos to the Aquino administration brought about by the February 1986 Edsa Revolution, Jose Lim was appointed Office In-Charge ( 1986 – 87 ); then Francisco dela Cruz was again re-elected ( 1988 – 98 ); Quiñones was elected in May ( 1998 – 2001 ); Guiñez was elected in May 2001.

Lim was a member of the Nacionalista Party and was first elected as representative of the Lone District of Zamboanga in 1949.

Roseller Lim was the first and only politician from Zamboanga to be elected to the Philippine Senate.

Lim was an elected school board trustee and city councilor ( 1997 ) before being elected mayor in 2000, succeeding veteran mayor Victor M. Power on his retirement.

Lim was returned as an elected Member of Parliament for Aljunied GRC after her team won 54. 71 % of the votes ( 54. 72 % including overseas votes ), the first time that an opposition party won a GRC since the system's introduction on 1 June 1988.