The Malayan Emergency, which saw thousands of deaths, lasted from 1948 until 1960 and started after the armed wing of the Malayan Communist Party began wreaking havoc in the British colony.

The Malayan emergency, a term used by the British colonial government to describe its guerrilla war with the Malayan Communist Party in the 1950s, is a dark, rather neglected period of Singapore's ...

Poet Wong Yoon Wah, who grew up during the Malayan Emergency, was not able to talk about his life story until recently. NOTED poet and educator Wong Yoon Wah grew up in a barbed wire compound ...

The Malayan Emergency was certainly a violent chapter in Malayan history, and predated the Vietnam War in its scale and intensity of repression in the region.

A report produced by R. W. Komer for the RAND corporation, detailing the measures taken by British forces during the Malayan Emergency 1948-1960, which included the forced resettlement of half a ...

The Malayan Emergency started in June 1948, after three estate managers were murdered in Pelak, in northern Malaya by Malayan Communist Party guerrillas.

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JULY 31 this year will mark the 50th anniversary of the end of the Malayan Emergency where 39 Australian servicemen were killed and a further 27 wounded. Read Today's Paper Tributes & Notices.