Word: penang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Malayans, who learned the game from the British, years ago adopted it as their national sport. On the island of Penang, Eddie Choong and his older brother David picked up badminton the way U.S. youngsters pick up baseball. And when the Japanese occupied Penang in 1941, the Choong boys filled up their time with badminton for want of much else to do. "No more than four persons were allowed together at one time," Eddie remembers. "Five, and poff, into jail you went. So we played badminton in our father's garden...
Last week Elizabeth Parsons, an attractive, auburn-haired woman of 28, sat in the assize court of Penang, on trial for the murder of her children. She was the first white, woman to go on trial for her life in Malaya since the famous case 30 years ago which Somerset Maugham dramatized in The Letter. To a jury of three Britons, three Chinese and a Sikh, the crown prosecutor outlined his case. "This is not common murder." said he, "but a most exceptional case. There is no motive here. It is a tragedy, and your reaction must...
...Penang. 2. Hong Kong. 3. Shantung. 4. Hainan. 5. Celebes...