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  Federation of Malaya article - Federation of Malaya Malay 1948 Penang Malacca Malay states Malayan Union protectorates ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Federation of Malaya, or in Malay Persekutuan Tanah Melayu, was formed in 1948 from the British settlements of Penang and Malacca and the nine Malay states and replaced the Malayan Union.
Within the Federation, while the Malay states were protectorates of the United Kingdom, Penang and Malacca remained British colonial territories.
In 1963, the federation was enlarged to form Malaysia through the admittance of Singapore, Sarawak and British North Borneo, which was renamed Sabah.
www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Malaya   (147 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Federation of Malaya
Malaya, Federation of, former constitutional monarchy within the Commonwealth of Nations, encompassing all of the Malay Peninsula south of Thailand....
The most important event in the Federation of Malaya was the ending, on July 31, of the emergency produced by Communist guerilla activities.
Malaya continued to enjoy political stability during 1961, and the country was able to devote itself to economic development.
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 Federation of Malaya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Within the Federation, while the Malay states were protectorate s of the United Kingdom, Penang and Malacca remained British colonial territories.
In 1963, the federation was enlarged to form Malaysia through the admittance of Singapore, Sarawak and British North Borneo.
National Malaya and Borneo Verterans Association Association is for all vets who served in Malaya, Borneo, Singapore or Brunei dring WWII or Malayan Emergency, living in and around Essex and Suffolk.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Federation_of_Malaya.html   (363 words)

  
 EH.Net Encyclopedia: The Economic History of Malaysia
Malaya is now known as Peninsular Malaysia, and the two other territories on the island of Borneo as East Malaysia.
In Malaya in 1921 roughly 60 percent of the planted area was estates (75 percent European-owned) and 40 percent smallholdings (Drabble, 1991, 1).
In 1963 the Federation of Malaysia was formed in which the bumiputera population was sufficient in total to offset the high proportion of Chinese arising from the short-lived inclusion of Singapore (Andaya and Andaya, 2001).
www.eh.net /encyclopedia/?article=drabble.malaysia   (6459 words)

  
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In 1948, local communists of the Communist Party of Malaya, nearly all Chinese, launched a insurgency, prompting the imposition of Malayan Emergency (the state of emergency was lifted in 1960).
Malaya remained part of the Commonwealth of Nations, and hosted a large British and Commonwealth military presence until the withdrawal of British forces East of Suez in the late 60s.
The independent Federation of Malaya combined with the British colonies of Singapore, Sarawak and North Borneo (renamed Sabah) to form Malaysia on September 16, 1963.
online-encyclopedia.info /encyclopedia/h/hi/history_of_malaysia.html   (912 words)

  
 Decolonisation of Malaysia
The federation of Malaya was launched in 1948, which consisted of all the nine Malay states of the Peninsula, along with Melaka and Penang united under a federal government in Kuala Lumpur headed by British High Commissioner.
Therefore the proposal for Malaya to further progressed and prospered as a federation of Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei made in May 27, 1961 was initially to defend the neighbouring “Unfinished Revolution” invasion[10].
Malaya was a land full of nature resource such as tin, timber, and iron ore; and apt for growing plantation of rubber and oil palm.
uk.geocities.com /tafk2/sneeze/decolonisation_of_malaysia.htm   (5155 words)

  
 University of Malaya -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
When the two came together to form the University of Malaya in October 1949, this was so that they might perform together an even greater service - to help lay the foundations of a new nation by producing a generation of skilled and educated men.
Hence the University of Malaya was established on 8th October 1949 as a national institution to serve the higher education needs of the (Click link for more info and facts about Federation of Malaya) Federation of Malaya and (A country in southeastern Asia on the island of Singapore; achieved independence from Malaysia in 1965) Singapore.
Legislation was passed in 1961 founding the University of Malaya on 1st January 1962.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/U/Un/University_of_Malaya.htm   (245 words)

  
 Bibliography on Party Politics in MALAYA, 1950-1962
The ICPP file on Malaya includes some 2,348 pages which were selected from among some 60 documents out of the over 300 documents examined in the course of the bibliographic search.
Malaya's "plural society" constitutes the significant factor in Malayan politics, and this is reflected in the heavy usage of the 610, 640, and 630 codes, which deal with "Issues of consensus or cleavage," "political attitudes," and "political participation" respectively.
The political history of Malaya also seemed significant enough to warrant a heavy usage of the 680 code which deals with that subject and also the structure of the government.
www.janda.org /icpp/ICPP1980/Book/PART3/58-MalayaBib.htm   (904 words)

  
 NUS: Library: A Sense of History: Singapore, 1945-1955: Aftermath of War
at the request of the governments of the Federation of Malaya, the Crown Colony of Singapore and the United Kingdom.
Labour and trade union organisation in the Federation of Malaya and Singapore (section 12) / by S. Awbery and F. Dalley - Appendix: House of Lords debate on Malaya, opening statements, November 10, 1948.
Malaya, comprising the Federation of Malaya and the Colony of Singapore: a report on the 1947 census of population.
www.lib.nus.edu.sg /bib/sh/sing1945.html   (3224 words)

  
 Part II, p732
The encouraging political situation advanced the case for independence, which was granted in 1957, and the Federation of Malaya entered the British Commonwealth of Nations.
The close of our time period corresponds to the end of the Federation of Malaya, which was succeeded in 1963 with the formation of the new nation, Malaysia, composed of the former federation plus Singapore and two other British colonies on the island of Borneo: Sarawak and Sabah.
The ethnic character of politics in the old Federation of Malaya was continued in Malaysia after 1962, and geographical divisions introduced additional cleavages in the party system.
janda.org /ICPP/ICPP1980/Book/PART2/5-AsiaFarEast/58-Malaya/Malaya.htm   (1419 words)

  
 Malay states - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Before the formation of the [Malayan Union] in [1946], the Malay states were divided into the Federated Malay States (under a British High Commissioner in Kuala Lumpur) and the Unfederated Malay States, which each had a British Resident Commissioner.
The Federated Malay States comprised Perak, Selangor, Pahang and Negeri Sembilan while the Unfederated Malay States were Perlis, Kedah, Kelantan, Terengganu and Johore.
The Malay states are to be distinguished from the States of Malaya, which refers to the states of West Malaysia, including the two former British settlements of Penang and Malacca which are headed by titular Governors (Yang di-Pertua Negeri) appointed by the King (Yang di-Pertuan Agong) of Malaysia.
www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Malay_states   (224 words)

  
 East Malaysia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Both Sabah (formerly British North Borneo) and Sarawak were separate British colonies from Malaya, and did not become part of the Federation of Malaya in 1957.
However, both voted to become part of the new Federation of Malaysia in 1963.
The island of Labuan was part of Sabah until 1984, when it was made a separate Federal Territory, administered by the federal government.
www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/East_Malaysia   (273 words)

  
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In 1949 a committee was formed to consider and formalise the establishment of a flag for the Federation of Malaya.
The flag of the Federation of Malaya was flown for the first time in a flag-hoisting ceremony organised by the British High Commissioner on May 26, 1950 at the grounds of the Selangor Palace, attended by all Malay Rulers and officials of King George VI.
The Conference of Rulers consented that the Malaysian flag be based on the original design of the flag of the Federation of Malaya, with amendments made on the number of stripes and points of the star to represent the 14 states under the new Federation.
www.bernama.com /events/merdeka03/jalurgemilang.shtml   (761 words)

  
 Federation of Malaya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Federation of Malaya, or in Malay Persekutuan Tanah Melayu, was formed in 1948 from the Britishsettlements of Penang and Malacca and thenine Malay states and replaced the Malayan Union.
Within the Federation, while the Malay states were protectorates of the United Kingdom, Penang andMalacca remained British colonial territories.
In 1963, the federation was enlarged to form Malaysia through the admittance of Singapore, Sarawak and BritishNorth Borneo.
www.therfcc.org /federation-of-malaya-100974.html   (97 words)

  
 BBC ON THIS DAY | 31 | 1957: Malaya celebrates independence
Malaya will stay in the Commonwealth - and, as midnight approached, prime ministers of the member countries sent messages recorded in five continents.
On his return to Malaya in 1949 he found a country eager for independence but also struggling with communist extremism.
Following Malaya's independence, Tunku Abdul Rahman introduced reforms that spread power among the sultans and rajas who had ruled over fiefdoms on the Malay peninsula for hundreds of years.
news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/low/dates/stories/august/31/newsid_3534000/3534340.stm   (513 words)

  
 Federation of Malaya 1950-1963 (Malaysia)
The old Malayan (for the Federation of Malaya) flag was similar to the present day Malaysian flag except that the star and the stripes were 11 for the 11 states of Peninsular (or West) Malaysia.
The flag was chosen by a body established in 1949 to choose a flag for the Federation of Malaya.
A competition was held by the Federal Legislative Assembly, in which 373 entries were submitted of which 3 made it to the final stage.
www.1uptravel.com /flag/flags/my1950.html   (373 words)

  
 Peninsular Malaysia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term Peninsular Malaysia is used more often than West Malaysia (to avoid the idea that West and East Malaysia are separate countries like West Germany and East Germany used to be until 1990) or Malaya (which is now becoming obsolescent due to its connotations of the British colonial era).
the High Court of Malaya, the University of Malaya, Malayan Railway, etc., as well as in legal contexts in the phrase The States of Malaya (Negeri-negeri Tanah Melayu).
The distinction between West and East Malaysia is significant beyond the sphere of geography, because as well as having a different court structure, the Eastern states have more autonomy than the original States of Malaya, for example, maintaining restrictions on immigration from the peninsula.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/West+Malaysia   (296 words)

  
 Malaysia Country Guide - History and Government - World Travel Guide Provided By Columbus Travel Publishing
The first Muslim empire in Malaya, based on the trading port of Malacca on the western side of the peninsula, was formed under the rule of King Parameswara in the first quarter of the 15th century.
The Federated Malay States were created as an entity in 1895, and remained under British colonial control until the Japanese invasion of 1942.
In 1963, the Federation of Malaya merged with Singapore and the former British colonies of Sarawak and Sabah (North Borneo) to form Malaysia.
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 Federation Of Malaya - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The labor movement in the Federation of Malaya
Land registration in Singapore and the Federation of Malaya
Rabies in Malaya, (Institute for Medical Research, Federation of Malaya.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /federation_of_malaya.htm   (152 words)

  
 Federation Of Malaya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
on the establishment of the Federation of Malaysia was signed in London on July 9, 1963 by the governments of the United Kingdom, Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak...
Independ-ence was achieved on August 31, 1957 under the name of the Federation of Malaya.
The RM700 million proposed development on Gurney Drive — for which the site was purchased from The Visitor in the Federation of Malaya of the Christian...
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 Agreement between the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia and the Governments of the Federation of Malaya and ...
In this Agreement, the expression "Malaya" means the Malayan Postal Union which comprises the Federation of Malaya (that is to say, the States of Johore, Kedah, Kelantan, Malacca, Negri Sembilan, Pahang, Penang, Perak, Perlis, Selangor and Trengganu) and the State of Singapore.
The accounts relative to the trade charges on parcels in such cases shall be between Christmas Island and Malaya and between Malaya and the Post Office of the country of destination or the Post Office of the country of origin of the parcels, as the case may be.
Malaya shall allow Christmas Island one quarter of one percent of the amount of all trade charges collected in Christmas Island and claimed against Malaya by the Post Office of payment of the trade charge.
www.austlii.edu.au /au/other/dfat/treaties/1962/15.html   (7812 words)

  
 Exchange of Notes constituting an Agreement between the Government of Australia and the Government of the Federation of ...
I. The Government of the Federation of Malaya and the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia agree to the reciprocal exchange of planting material between the Federation of Malaya and the Territory of Papua and New Guinea subject to the following conditions:
that the export of planting material from the Federation of Malaya or from the Territory of Papua and New Guinea shall be permitted only if such planting material is in excess of the requirements of the Federation of Malaya or of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, as the case may be.
Subject to the foregoing, the Government of the Federation of Malaya and the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, will assist and facilitate the exchange between the Federation of Malaya and the Territory of Papua and New Guinea of planting material, as available, without restriction as regards species or varieties.
www.austlii.edu.au /au/other/dfat/treaties/1962/14.html   (460 words)

  
 Malayan Indian Community 1945 - 1955 - S.Arasaratnam
The earliest organisations of these were caste federations or regional associations which were a con­tinuation of the relationships of immigrant groups from their places of origin.
It was suggested by the Labour Department of the Federation of Malaya that the Indian Immigration Fund, so far set apart for the welfare of Indian labour on the plantations, be used to recruit indigenous labour.
When EVR visited Malaya in December 1954 the religious leaders of the community seem to have made representations to the Government conveying their anxiety at his known anti-religious views.
www.tamilnation.org /diaspora/malaysia/arasaratnam.htm   (7079 words)

  
 British Empire: The Map Room: South East Asia: Malaya
Malaya was occupied by the Japanese from 1942 to 1945.
This was the basis on which Malaya achieved independence in 1957.
Malaya and Singapore are occupied by the Japanese
www.britishempire.co.uk /maproom/malaya.htm   (160 words)

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