They call it “creative abdication.” In Malaya, Britain’s rubber-rich colony, last week the phrase seemed for once appropriate. Four years ago the British promised Malaya self-determination ...

This month marks 80 years since Singapore, a British colony with significant strategic importance was invaded and subsequently captured by the Empire of ... thick jungles of Malaya, much of ...

FROM the rule of the Srivijaya Empire to Melaka’s rise as a bustling entrepôt, and through the occupations that followed the ...

Despite considerable losses in Malaya, the British and Commonwealth ... Never before had the British Empire suffered a defeat of this scale. Eighty-five thousand British and Commonwealth troops ...