Word: malays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...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...
...Sarawak," says Abdul Rahman, "and not one road connecting any of the territories with each other." But the Tengku was not being just altruistic about the Borneo lands; he wants their inclusion in the federation because, being non-Chinese, they would preserve the existing cultural balance and keep the Malay-Moslem population from being swamped by the influx of Singapore's 1,250,000 Chinese...
...years ahead, Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Razak, 39, is trying to get 50,000 more acres a year under cultivation. To work the land, he is resettling farmers in self-contained communities, like those once organized for defense against Communist attacks. In one settlement in Bilut Valley, 483 Malay, Chinese and Indian families, most of whom have never farmed before, are living peacefully together, even though the Chinese breed pigs, which the Malays abhor, and the Malays slaughter cattle, which are sacred to the Indians. In two years the settlement has put 5,770 acres under cultivation, hopes to expand...