Veteran opposition politician Lim Kit Siang was in his element at Parliament House this morning, but it was not to re-live the memory of his heyday in the Dewan Rakyat.

He had been invited to brief members of Parliament to show that the Health Ministry has been "manipulating" statistics to hide the gravity of the dengue situation since 1998, when the last pandemic occurred.

The DAP national chairperson built his case around statistics revealed by Health Minister Chua Jui Meng during a Dewan Rakyat session last Tuesday.

Chua's press secretary, Woon Yong Teai, recapitulated the speech in a letter sent to malaysiakini , to which data had been added. This was published as a letter to the editor o­n Monday.

Chua and Woon could not be reached for comment today.