Unlike nearby IndoChina’s war, Malaya’s fight against Communist terrorists was going great guns. Reported Britain’s General Sir Gerald Templer: “We’re beginning to get the shooting under ...

When a Malayan Communist is shot by troops acting on information received from the public, the British say he was “killed by a whisper.” One day last week a whisper reached the Suffolk ...

making the British-Indian defenders the first Allied troops to engage in battle in the Pacific Theatre. As gunfire erupted on the beaches of Malaya, the Pacific War had already begun—before ...

Japan invades Malaya (known today as Malaysia); Japanese aircraft sink a British battleship and a battle cruiser off the coast of Malaya. Japan takes Guam and Wake Island in the central pacific.

A mighty chapter of Malaya’s World War II history, involving Commonwealth soldiers who gave invading Japanese forces their first defeat in the Battle of Kampar, continues to be overlooked by the ...

Veterans who fought in Malaya in the 1950s have won their fight to wear a medal for their service. A Foreign Office review has recommended an exception be granted to allow them to receive the ...

Lawyer Virginia Lacsa Suarez, chair of Kaisa-Ka, pointed this out in a forum held before the launch of the exhibit “Behind the Battle of the Malaya Lolas” at the Museum of Philippine Social ...

A historian has attributed the recent uproar over a memorial hailing Japanese soldiers who died in Malaya as “heroes” to the use of text from a war propaganda book published at the height of ...

Tomoyuki Yamashita was an Imperial Japanese Army general during World War 2 and led his forces to victory during the invasion of Malaya and the Battle of Singapore. His work subsequently led to ...