In late December 1979, when a resurgent post-Emergency Indira Gandhi came to Nilambur, she put her arms around him and told ...

It’s strange for former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad to lament about Malay unity when he was the one who fomented it by ...

He says Malay unity cannot be achieved within the confines of political parties as they all ‘have their own agendas’.

The encounter comes within a week after CRPF director-general G.P. Singh declared that it is the beginning of the end for the ...

John Marjoram was elected in 1986, a year after the Green Party had been formed, and was a councillor at town and district ...

My great-uncle lost Malayan citizenship involuntarily through denaturalisation. A member of the Malayan Communist Party, which confronted the Japanese Occupation and fought for independence from the ...

Ng Sze Chieh details how the Malayan Communist Party covertly recruited members through schools and workplaces, channelling resources to its headquarters in southern Thailand. Ng Sze Chieh ...

Disillusioned in the aftermath of the May 13 race riots by the socio-economic shifts brought about by the New Economic Policy (NEP), youths in the 1970s turned to communism to advocate change, a ...

But listen to the voiceover or read the subtitles of Ho’s tribute and it’s clear that the ‘real’ subject of his film is Lai Teck, Secretary-General of the Malayan Communist Party from 1939 to 1947.

The village, nestled in Narathiwat, a province in Thailand’s mainly Malay Muslim Deep South, has a population of about 500 and is home to about a dozen ex-members of the 10th Regiment of the former ...

He said the fate of the Chinese turned catastrophic after the British became suspicious of their link to the Malayan Communist Party in 1948, forcing them into settlements, the early formation of ...