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Walls of Prejudice. By far Malaysia's most complex and festering problem is the simmering racial hostility between the new nation's Chinese and Malay populations. Throughout the federation, the astute, prosperous, hard-bargaining Chinese dominate business, industry and trade, have economically far outstripped the rural, easygoing Malays. Chinese tycoons control North Borneo's booming young timber industry and Sarawak's vast, rolling pepper gardens; in Malaya. Abdul Rahman's government has complained that the rich, inbred Chinese business community has erected a "wall of prejudice" against ambitious young Malay businessmen...
...picked up the knack of absorbing pertinent passages from books or papers that were read aloud to him. But though he has no intellectual pretensions, the Tunku commands unswerving loyalty from his brilliant subordinates for his almost charmed ability to avoid political mistakes. Says an aide: "He understands the Malay mind better than anyone else ever has." Abdul Rahman agrees. "I have the feel of the people." he says. "I have the touch...
...root when the Japanese ousted the British. With the end of the war, at the age of 42, the Tunku returned to England to get his law degree, began to play a larger part in the cause of merdeka (freedom). He insisted that it was the duty of every Malay in Britain to join the nationalistic Malay Society. Because of his age and long experience in the civil service, younger Malay students looked to him as their leader, called him-because of his darker skin-"Black Uncle." In fiery political bull sessions with youthful follower Tun Abdul Razak, the seeds...
...underwater graveyard off the Malay coast is a litter of bones, picked clean by the sharks that come there to feed. The natives take advantage of the fact by catching the sharks and selling their fins to rich Chinese, who prize fins as aphrodisiacs. But the shark fishermen pay a price for their enterprise: scrabbling over the beach to tend the drying fins, each shows the stump of a leg, a maimed hand, the nub of an elbow...
INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR 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...