No justice: 75 years after a British massacre in colonial Malaya. British soldiers killed 24 innocent people in the opening months of the 'Malayan Emergency' in 1948.

In Malaya, Britain’s rubber-rich colony, last week the phrase seemed for once appropriate. Four years ago the British promised Malaya self-determination “in due course,” but did not fix a date.

Similarly, about a decade ago, an academic from the National Professors’ Council argued that Malaya, with the exception of the Straits Settlements, was never a British colony. The Malay states ...

Growing up in the then British colony of Malaya, my closest friend in elementary/primary school was Jeswant Singh, from a Sikh family living in our neighbourhood in Kuala Lumpur (KL).

It took time and patience to knit the skein of British colonial expansion into a tight empire, but the weaving of an empire was nothing compared to the job of unraveling it. Whenever the Labor ...

Malaya. British army counterinsurgency learning during the Malayan emergency, 1948-1951 -- The empire strikes back: British army counterinsurgency in Malaya, 1952-1957 -- pt. 3. Vietnam. The U.S ...

IN discussing colonial conditions, I shall in the main limit myself to those prevailing in the British Colonies. The character of the British colonial empire was modified as a result of the ...

The colonial-era coat of arms of Singapore depicted on the back of a Malaya and British Borneo $10 dollar note bearing the date Mar 21, 1953. (Image: CNA/Kurt Ganapathy) ...