The remnants of Britain’s once mighty empire still give the mother country more than a few headaches. Britain, which once ...

Thailand’s history stands out in Southeast Asia as the only country that successfully avoided colonisation by European powers ...

In one corner of Gallery D at Muzium Negara, visitors will find the original Bendera Persekutuan Tanah Melayu. The flag was ...

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.

With the establishment of the British colonial administration and trans-regional networks in the 1830s, Bengali mobility into the Malay world took a relatively stable form.

THE following appointments in the Colonial Service have been announced: A. Bolton, plant breeder, Kenya ; E. A. Rosenquist, botanist, Malaya ; J. A. F. Gerrard ...

Rubber is waterproof, durable and in so many everyday items it would be impossible for our world to exist in this form ...

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 ...

The world’s biggest colonial power prided itself on being a liberal democracy. Was this part of the problem?

The New Villages were built by the British colonial authorities when what was then called Malaya was besieged by a communist insurgency.