Were he a less determined man. Prime Minister Tengku (Prince) Abdul Rahman might well be tempted, after less than one year as head of the new Federation of Malaya, to feel a trifle complacent about ...

There was little evidence against the Communist jungle-fighter, Piao, except that he was occasionally noisy and sometimes insubordinate, that he once lit a fire when his commanding officer told him ...

Robert Atkins, who has died aged 97, was awarded an MC in 1953 during the Malaya Emergency while serving with the Gurkha Rifles. A series of attacks by the Malayan Races Liberation Army (MRLA), aimed ...

The center of Tan Twan Eng’s deceptively seductive novel, The Garden of Evening Mists, turns on numerous unsettling events in Malaya during World War II and its aftermath. During the war, the Japanese ...

They trek for days through crocodile-infested swamps and up rain-lashed mountain jungles, but the members of the Malaya Historical Group are not seeking treasure or ancient artefacts. Instead, they're ...

It may soon be obsolete, but the Jungle Train is still a nostalgic jaunt across the heart of the Malay Peninsula, taking in forgotten towns steeped in colonial history. The dawn light peered through ...

OF the three jungle peoples of the Malay Peninsula, Jakun, Sakai and Semang, the last-named are probably the best known to the outside world. As a racial group of low stature and negroid appearance, ...