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  • The British, in contrast, had taken the patient approach in the late 1940s when facing a Communist guerrilla uprising in British Malaya.

    Haste Makes ... Defeat 2010

  • The British, in contrast, had taken the patient approach in the late 1940s when facing a Communist guerrilla uprising in British Malaya.

    Fact And Comment 2010

  • The History With Indians arriving in British Malaya in large numbers by the turn of the last century, first to work on rubber estates and later oil-palm plantations, Indian street vendors began pushing what back home is called a paratha

    Roti Canai 2009

  • It is a fascinating speculation, how events might have evolved if the U.S. and its Philippines dependency had been excluded from Japanese war plans in December 1941; had Tokyo confined itself to occupying British Malaya and Burma, along with the Dutch East Indies.

    'Retribution: The Battle for Japan 1944 – 1945' 2008

  • By Founding Casinos and Cruise Fleet As the Japanese army swept across China in 1941, 23-year-old vegetable-seed peddler Lim Goh Tong said goodbye to his mother for what would be the last time and boarded a boat to seek his fortune in British Malaya.

    He Traded in Seeds, Then Grew a Fortune 2007

  • British Malaya was entirely under British rule or control.

    1873, June 20 2001

  • The war in Europe had created an irresistible opportunity for Japan to take over these colonies of France, Britain, and the Netherlands, particularly of the Dutch East Indies and British Malaya, with their invaluable supplies of oil rubber, and tin.

    The Story of World War II Donald L. Miller 1945

  • The war in Europe had created an irresistible opportunity for Japan to take over these colonies of France, Britain, and the Netherlands, particularly of the Dutch East Indies and British Malaya, with their invaluable supplies of oil rubber, and tin.

    The Story of World War II Donald L. Miller 1945

  • British Malaya from south to north, is the Federated Malay States

    Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China 1918

  • There was no Sri Lanka for the Tamils or the few Sinhalese who have gone to British Malaya and Singapore.

    TamilNet Newswire 2010

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