DAP national chairperson Lim Kit Siang said it is time that Asean tackles burning regional issues, indicating that there is no better moment to start than during the two-day Asean ministerial meeting from today in Phnom Pehn, Cambodia.
He cited the need for the regional body to discuss the 'protective custody' of Burmese pro-democracy leader
Aung San Suu Kyi
(
photo, left
), Indonesia's military operations against the separatist movement in
Aceh
, and the
jailing
of former Malaysian deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim. (
photo, right
)
