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Tun Dr. Lim Chong Eu (simplified Chinese: 林苍祐; traditional Chinese: 林蒼祐; pinyin: Lín Cāngyòu; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lîm Chhong-iū; 28 May 1919 – 24 November 2010) was a Malaysian politician who served as the 2nd Chief Minister of Penang from May 1969 to October 1990 and the longest serving Chief Minister of Penang.
Lim Chong Eu (kanan, dijulang) bersama Syed Hussein Alatas (berjanggut) meraikan kemenangan Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia pada Pilihan raya umum Malaysia 1969. Pada 1958 ketika perhimpunan agong parti MCA, beliau mencabar Tun Tan Cheng Lock, dan menang dengan majoriti 22 undi.
A journalist shares his experience of interviewing Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu, the former MCA president and Penang chief minister, in 2005. He recounts how Dr Lim refused to take credit for Penang's industrialisation, gave advice to the interviewer and his photographer, and expressed his views on Mahathir and Komtar.
To move his economic agenda while being constrained by an uncooperative federal bureaucracy, Dr Lim created the Penang Development Corporation (PDC) to bypass the bureaucratic hurdle of the State Secretariat, which was under the federal government’s control.
Nov 25, 2010 · The late Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu will be remembered as a leader who left his imprint on Penang during a time of turbulence and ferment in Malaysia’s post-independence years. His experiment with multi-ethnic politics with Gerakan – in its initial years at least – fired the imagination of many Penangites and other Malaysians.
Tun Dr. Lim Chong Eu was the second Chief Minister of Penang. He is acknowledged as the person who did more to develop Penang than anyone else, living or dead.
GEORGE TOWN: Former Penang chief minister Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu died at his home at 9.07pm yesterday in Tanjung Bungah, a month after suffering from a stroke. Lim, 91, was admitted to the Penang Hospital on Oct 26.
