During the 1980s and 1990s, a new wave of Bangladeshi migrants, comprising mainly unskilled workers, led to a widespread ...

The 'New Villages' were built by the British colonial authorities when then Malaya was besieged by a communist insurgency Some politicians slam the Unesco plan as a move to challenge Malay rights ...

This is the first study of Indian coolie women in British Malaya to date. In exploring the politicization of labour migration trends and gender relations in the colonial plantation society in British ...

Employing British Malaya as a case study to interrogate the 'internal workings' of colonial power, the author convincingly demonstrates that relationships between rulers and the ruled were as complex ...

The colonial boomerang reproduces this stratification of humanity ... the imperial metropole in the policing of racialized diaspora and migrant communities. British Malaya was an area loosely based ...

Malaysian currency went through five changes, including special banknotes that were introduced by the British during the ...

Till today, colonial-era laws that ban homosexuality continue to exist in former British territories including ... Bangladesh, Malaysia, Brunei, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. Penalties range from two ...