Thursday, August 7th, 2008 Posted in Malaysia | No Comments »
Malaysians and Singaporeans would be familiar about how a Sumatran prince named Parameswara founded the Malacca Sultanate, but was there a settlement already existing before the prince's visit? The state ... Read more..Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 Posted in Malaysia, Museums | No Comments »
... and rightly so! The break-in, reported two weekends ago, saw the loss of three replica Portuguese pistols and eleven even more valuable kris (Malay daggers) from the History and ... Read more..Monday, July 16th, 2007 Posted in Malaysia | No Comments »
16 July 2007 (Brunei Times) - Today's short history series focuses on Malaysia. Again, the information here is scant and sometimes contradictory. History of Malaysia Scientists have found archaeological evidence of human ... Read more..Friday, May 25th, 2007 Posted in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Srivijaya | 1 Comment »
Previously on The Many Places of Singapura... we saw the first of the Lion Cities in Vietnam and then we talked about two possible locations for other Singapuras in the ... Read more..Thursday, May 17th, 2007 Posted in Indonesia, Malaysia, Politics, Srivijaya | 7 Comments »
Hafiz Noor Shams, a Malaysian blogger based in the US has an interesting discussion about the Srivijaya empire on his blog, the__earthinc. The Hindu-Buddhist polity of Srivijaya was one of ... Read more..Thursday, April 19th, 2007 Posted in Malaysia, Tourism | 1 Comment »
19 April 2007 (New Straits Times) - The state government of Malacca intends to rebuild the 'historic' Malacca, that of the 15th century which is regarded as the golden age ... Read more..Friday, March 30th, 2007 Posted in Malaysia, Politics | 1 Comment »
30 March 2007 (Lim Kit Siang's blog) - Lim Kiat Siang is a leading opposition figure in Malaysian politics. In this post, he features a write-up on how knowledge of ... Read more..