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 ...

THAM Yong died 11 days ago. I bet there's not a single reader who remembers that name, unless they happen to live in Malaysia or, like me this week, happened to be in Kuala Lumpur and to read the ...

Images show troops trekking through the tropical terrain of the former British colony Federation of Malaya Amazingly, the brutal conflict, which claimed 10,000 lives, was never branded a war for ...

In 1963, Malaya joined with the British colonies of Singapore, Sabah and Sarawak to form the democratic nation of Malaysia. Singapore later separated from Malaysia and declared its independence in ...