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...official language of Singapore is Malay, however; the most commonly spoken tongues are English, Mandarin Chinese and Tamil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Singapore Facts | 7/24/1987 | See Source »

Nine whites became colored, 506 coloreds became white, two whites became Malay, 14 Malays became white, nine Indians became white, seven Chinese became white, one Griqua became white, 40 coloreds became black, 666 blacks became colored, 87 coloreds became Indian, 67 Indians became colored, 26 coloreds ^ became Malay, 50 Malays became Indian, 61 Indians became Malay, four coloreds became Griqua, four Griquas became colored, two Griquas became black, 18 blacks became Griquas, twelve coloreds became Chinese, ten blacks became Indians, two blacks became other Asian, two other coloreds became Indian, and one other colored became black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Crazy Game of Musical Chairs | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...Turkey it was always 1952, in Malay sia 1937, Afghanistan was 1910, and Bo livia 1949. It is 20 years ago in the Soviet Union, ten in Norway, five in France. It is always last year in Australia and next week in Japan. Britain and the United States were the present - but the present contains the future." During his trip, he writes, understating the case, he was "not necessarily looking for progress"; deterioration and decay seemed to him more futuristic. Possibly, though, in sneering endlessly at elderly tourists too poor to visit Majorca, and at the purse-mouthed landladies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dodger | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...species-this blessed event was something very special. Flossie's offspring was not an ordinary black-and-white Holstein calf but a baby gaur (rhymes with flower), a rare type of wild ox that lives in the remote forests of South Asia from India and Nepal to the Malay Peninsula...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blessed Event in The Bronx After an implant, a rare Indian ox is born to a Holstein | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

...gateway between the Pacific and the Indian Ocean-and the choke point through which passes virtually all of the Middle Eastern oil on which Japan's economy depends-is the Strait of Malacca, a channel 30 miles wide at its narrowest point, between the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Here too Soviet naval activity has been on the rise, in both obvious and not-so-obvious ways. Soviet destroyers, cruisers and diesel-powered, torpedo-firing Foxtrot submarines have been passing through the strait at the rate of about six a month, while nuclear-powered Echo-class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia: The Soviets Stir Up the Pacific | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

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