DAP's Sungai Pelek assemblyperson Ronnie Liu brushed off criticisms by party colleagues Tony Pua and Hannah Yeoh of his comments in a speech yesterday, saying that the reactions revealed a personal prejudice against him.

The DAP central committee member said the two MPs had misinterpreted what he said at DAP veteran Liew Ah Kim's book launch in Klang on Sunday.

"My original speech was in Mandarin. Hannah and Tony added their own misinterpretations and prejudices against me and started to bash me," claimed Liu, without elaborating on the precise nature of the misinterpretations...