Thus the gin-bashing cronies of Milton Hall, hero of this brilliant first novel, might have summarized his brief and dreadful career as a British colonial officer in Malaya. The story is set in ...

As we all know from our history books, Malaya suffered under the Japanese ... communist pro-independence fighters to overthrow the British colonial administration, the latter used herbicides ...

"The lowering of the British flag marked the end of colonial rule in Penang ... was also where the colonists departed, leaving Malaya an independent nation. He added that on Sept 1, 1957 ...

Calls for several Chinese 'new villages' to get Unesco status and the designation of a herbal pork soup as a heritage dish have sparked a cultural clash Politicians have jumped on these issues by ...