1,200-year-old stupa reveals new evidence of Malaysia’s multicultural past (www.aljazeera.com)
SGD1 Would’ve Always Been RM1 if Malaysia Didn’t Pull Out of This 1967 Agreement (worldofbuzz.com)
Dark history of Malaysia’s Chinese villages underscores fury over Unesco bid (www.scmp.com)
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Researcher: Unesco bid for Chinese new villages will preserve history (www.malaysiakini.com)
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‘Fall of KL’: Military vets, history buffs remember those who lost lives during WWII’s Japanese occupation of Malaya (www.malaymail.com)
The Malaysian Town Still Haunted By Radioactive Pollution 30 Years After Rare Earths Refinery Shut (www.youtube.com)
Prehistoric South-east Asians were climate refugees: New study (www.straitstimes.com)
41 prehistoric remains to return to Malaysia from the Netherlands (www.straitstimes.com)
Largest Buddhist temple structure unearthed in Bukit Choras, dating back 1,200 years (www.nst.com.my)
The Untold Generational Trauma From The 'White Australia Policy' | The Exiles - Part 2/2 (www.youtube.com)
In 1901, Australia passed a set of racialised laws around immigration commonly known as the White Australia Policy. It sought to severely limit the number of non-British immigrants to Australia. In the wake of the Second World War, Chinese and Malay men who had courageously defended Australia during wartime found themselves...
When Singapore still part of Malaysia, they are gay about it. (monyet.cc)
Genomic Analysis Of Peranakan Chinese Reveals Insight Into Ancestry (www.a-star.edu.sg)
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Malaysia, China join forces to research ancient Kedah's historical records (www.thestar.com.my)
The Little Known History of Negaraku | TRP (www.therakyatpost.com)
Amateur historians uncover WW2 plane wreckage to document nation’s wartime history (www.thestar.com.my)
The Dissolution of a Monetary Union: The Case of Malaysia and Singapore 1963–1974 (www.tandfonline.com)
Yes, as a boring person this is what’s catching my interest on merdeka day. Open access too....
Proclamation Of Independence Ceremony - Kuala Lumpur (1957) (youtube.com)
31 Ogos 1957 Hari Kemerdekaan Persekutuan Tanah Melayu (www.youtube.com)
Teochew opera is most alive during the Hungry Ghost Festival - BASKL (baskl.com.my)
Sorry guys, I tried to find an article online that goes more into the historic aspects of the Hungry Ghosts Festival as celebrated here in Malaysia, but literally everything focuses on the now, since this is very much a living experience. I am adamant of posting something about it today regardless, since today’s the peak of...
Stadium Merdeka: Where history was made – EdgeTV [Trivia in comments] (theedgemalaysia.com)
A Very Rough Guide to Sungai Way (museumvolunteersjmm.com)
Featuring US VP Richard Nixon
1929 railway map of Malaya, showing the greatest extents of the network that is now KTM (museumvolunteersjmm.files.wordpress.com)
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