Growing up in the then British colony of Malaya, my closest friend in elementary/primary school was Jeswant Singh, from a Sikh family living in our neighbourhood in Kuala Lumpur (KL). The Singh ...

Colourised photographs of British troops fighting during in the Malayan Emergency show the brutality of the battle that claimed 10,000 lives. The conflict against communist insurgents was dubbed ...

Queen Elizabeth II is viewed in the U.K. as a rock in turbulent times. But former colonies see her as an anchor to an imperial past.

During the second world war, the withdrawal of British forces from north Malaya aloong the west coast into Johore Baru was committed the most horrific massacre by the Japanese ever recorded. The ...