Word: penang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hard Workers. Britain's entry into the Orient brought new swarms of Chinese to Nanyang as indentured coolies to work in tin mines and on plantations, to load ships and build roads and carry burdens. Each new trading city-Penang, Singapore, Malacca, Hong Kong-became heavily Chinese. As agents and middlemen, the ubiquitous Chinese followed the Dutch troops into Sumatra, Borneo and Celebes, the British into Burma, the French into Indo-China. Even in Thailand, which never became a European colony, the Chinese were advisers to the king, and controlled the nation's commerce...
Snarevoyance. In Penang, Malaya, Medium Cassim Bin Osman was asked to go into a trance and locate a missing corpse, did so, was convicted of murder...
...Boar. In Penang, Malaya, Teh Chew Ean sued her husband for maintenance because his mother made her get up to feed the pigs at 5 a.m. on her wedding night...
...Penang, Malaya...
Their activities have not been confined to propaganda. Once, three teachers and a headmistress were seared by acid when they tried to resist Red infiltration. A school inspector was shot in the street, and in Penang, where a similar campaign is under way, a school headmaster was murdered. As a result of such tactics, teachers and parents alike have either knuckled under or taken refuge in apathy...