Malaysia hails ‘victory’ in row with Sulu sultan’s Filipino heirs | Politics News | Al Jazeera
Malaysia says new ruling by French court could overturn a $14.9bn award handed to Filipino heirs of the Sulu sultanate.
South China Sea Tensions Haunted by European Colonialism – The Diplomat
The legal case brought by Sulu Sultanate heirs against Malaysia highlights the unexpected links between present day tensions and European colonialism in Southeast Asia.
Britain’s forgotten war for rubber
70 years ago the UK stepped up a brutal colonial intervention in Malaya, presenting it as a war against Chinese communism.
Rubber, Race and Colonial Exploitation - Kontinentalist
An interactive and highly illustrated story that investigates the historic rubber industry in Malaya, and its discriminative practices.
Feature by Herman Scholz - Gingers in Borneo
fleur-flour-flah and ‘good’ english – More of A Comment
it’s as much a historical artifact as the rhotic American accents probably resemble older forms of British accents, or the American habit to NOT pronounce the h in ‘herb’ unlike modern British (and that was, again, another French thing). It’s not wrong, and if monolinguals tell us otherwise, then they’re just being jerks and ignorant of their own history.