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...manner quickly win their confidence. Though he is a devout Moslem, Abdul Rahman enjoys brandy and soda; he is also an excellent curry cook. With his third wife, Sharifah Rodzia, and their four adopted children (two of whom are Chinese),* the Tunku leads a life of cheerful disorder in Kuala Lumpur's open, airy Prime Minister's residence, allows the 70 children of his servants the run of the house; visiting diplomats are often surprised during a conference to see a servant's child wander into the sitting room and climb up onto the Tunku...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Malaysia: The Man Who | 4/12/1963 | See Source »

...Arab side, overlooking the old city. The Egyptian government last year launched a five-year plan to build 40 hotels. Sprinting toward the 1964 Olympics, Tokyo builders have 14 new hotels in the works. New hotels are under way or planned in such once remote spots as Kuala Lumpur, Karachi, Sardinia, Bangkok, Manila, Alexandria and Aswan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hotels: Where the Water Is Safe | 4/5/1963 | See Source »

...OPEN FORUM: The last International Seminar Open Forum will be held this Wednesday in Allston Burr B at 8 p.m. The theme of this program is "Problems of East Asia." The members of the panel are Hamdan bin Sheikh Tahir, of Malay, member of the Ministry of Education in Kuala Lumpur; Masaya Miyoshi, of Japan, member of the Research Department, Federation of Economic Organizations, Tokyo; and Joonkyu Park of Korea, writer and lecturer and former member of the National Assembly, Following the forum the audience is invited to a reception at 6 Divinity Avenue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUMMER NEWS BRIEFS | 8/13/1962 | See Source »

Franklin goes unsung in the U.S., but is famous in the exotic cities listed on its Manhattan front door: Cairo, Beirut, Baghdad, Tehran. Lahore, Dacca, Kuala Lumpur, Djakarta. In those places, far from Manhattan's Publishers' Row, Franklin in ten years has guided the printing of 26,477,800 books in such exotic languages as Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Urdu, Bengali, Malay and Indonesian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bookman to the World | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

...widen the federation to include the British-run territories of Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo, whose predominantly non-Chinese populations would offset Singapore's Chinese, many of whom are openly proCommunist. But Lee, who has lost two by-elections in recent months, fortnight ago rushed to Kuala Lumpur to argue that his situation was deteriorating, and he cannot afford to wait until the Borneo territories make up their minds. Lee Kuan Yew returned to Singapore with Abdul Rahman's agreement "in principle" to a merger, with Singapore retaining local control of education and labor matters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Malaya: Precarious Peace | 9/8/1961 | See Source »

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