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Special thanks to the Sun Yat-sen Museum in Penang. The exploits of China's revolutionary first President, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, are legendary. Known as the 'Father of China', he was not only responsible for overthrowing the last Emperor of China and introducing democracy to China (for a while), but he's also one of few people to be

The Penangite, who is renowned in China for his work, was the first Malaysian to be nominated for a Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1935. His name, however, has never found a place in our school history books.

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Under the Malaysia Agreement of 1963, Sabah and Sarawak were equal partners to the former Federation of Malaya, but this standing has since been eroded. Here’s what restoring it will mean, and why it's important.

A team of researchers from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research’s (A*STAR) Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) analysed the genomes of 177 Singapore Peranakans.

It may soon be obsolete, but the Jungle Train is still a nostalgic jaunt across the heart of the Malay Peninsula, taking in forgotten towns steeped in colonial history.

Amrita Malhi traces the historical roots of the 3Rs of Malaysian politics to 19th-century colonial contests between Siam and Britain.

Have you ever wondered what all those abbreviations mean when it comes to area codes in the Selangor area? PJS? PJU? SS? USJ?

Spoken Teochew is both ancient and at the same time evolving, just like any other "live" languages. The Teochews settled in the Malay-speaking world covering Singapore, Malaysia and Indon...

70 years ago the UK stepped up a brutal colonial intervention in Malaya, presenting it as a war against Chinese communism.

A rich and complex chile paste that's a mainstay of the Malay kitchen.

An interactive and highly illustrated story that investigates the historic rubber industry in Malaya, and its discriminative practices.

Katak di bawah tempurung / Seperti katak dalam tempurung – Frog under the coconut shell. Let’s try to get out from under our shell.This page is a list of open access resources and prima…

A dynamic web presentation of the event that presents both the original reporting at the time but also an event timeline with geographical cues that gives a bird's eye view on how it happened.