Word: malay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neighboring Federation of Malaya (nearly 60% Malay, 40% Chinese), shrewd Prime Minister Abdul Rahman has created a successful racial coalition-the Alliance Party-of Malays, Chinese and Indians, and has won the support of responsible Chinese by fashioning a political movement as delicately balanced as a Calder mobile...
...little darkened by the searing heat. After them came the cooler and lighter-skinned Laotians. Anthropologists take a duller view, and say that the Laotians are simply a branch of the great Tibeto-Burman race that swept into southeast Asia over six centuries ago and conquered the local Malay tribes...
...astounded by the ignorance in some places." Before upcountry pagodas and in front of east coast mosques, he greeted crowds by crying Merdeka (freedom) and arguing commonsensically that "there is too much talk about differences of race, religion and class rather than about our similarities," appealed to citizens of Malay, Chinese and Indian stock "to sink our differences and speak about what is good for the country as a whole." His political rivals had narrower aims. The Pan-Malayan Islamic Party dreams of bringing Malaya into a "Greater Indonesia." Two small leftist parties formed a Socialist front and advocated...
Last week the ties that for seven years have bound the Alliance-Malays, the self-sufficient and aloof Chinese, and the Indians-began to fray. The ties held only when the Tengku proved that under his bland exterior he can be a hard man indeed. Trouble began over how the Alliance would distribute its candidates for the 104 parliamentary seats in next month's federal elections. Word got out that the Tengku would give the Indian minority half a dozen seats, the Chinese (who represent 40% of the population) would get 28 seats, and the rest would...
...constitution voting is compulsory for all, and the ballot is thrown open to hundreds of thousands of Chinese born outside Singapore, most of whom are unable to speak English. In the new Parliament, in fact, English will cease to be the official language and members may debate in English, Malay, Mandarin Chinese or the Tamil language of India...