THE INVASION OF THE JAPANESE The Japanese invaded Malaya in the year 1942 had a tremendous effect on the country. During this period the Japanese like the British favoured the Malayas and intentionally tried to aggravate the racial atmosphere between them and the Chinese. Besides increasing hostility between these two ethnic groups, resulted their sharpening […]
Read More »A PLURASLISTIC SOCIETY The pluralistic nature of the Malaya society thus stood in the way of the growth of Nationalism and political unity. This means a society composed of two or more racial communities living side by side but to inter marrying to any extent, with differing standards of life, without a common culture. The […]
Read More »INTRODUCTION The Malaya peninsula, with an area of about 53,000 square miles, approximately the size of Florida had a population of about 5,000,000 in 1940 and nearly 8,500,000 in 1966. It is characterized by a central mountain chain with altitude ranging from 4,000 to 8,000 feet, below which lie the rolling foothill country and the […]
Read More »Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a sub region of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia. Southeast Asia is bordered to the north by East Asia, to the west by South Asia and Bay of Bengal, to the east […]
Read More »Geography of Timor-Leste East Timor is located in the eastern part of Timor, an island in the Indonesian archipelago that lies between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. East Timor includes the enclave of Oecussi, which is located within West Timor (Indonesia). After Indonesia, East Timor’s closest neighbor is Australia, 400 mi to […]
Read More »Geography of Myanmar Myanmar is the north western-most country of mainland Southeast Asia, bordering China, India, Bangladesh, Thailand and Laos. It lies along the Indian and Eurasian Plates, to the southeast of the Himalayas. To its west is the Bay of Bengal and to its south is the Andaman Sea. It is strategically located near […]
Read More »Geography of Laos Laos is an independent republic, and a landlocked nation in Southeast Asia, northeast of Thailand, west of Vietnam. It covers 236,800 square kilometers in the center of the Southeast Asian peninsula and it is surrounded by Burma, Cambodia, and the People’s Republic of China, Thailand, and Vietnam. About seventy percent of its […]
Read More »Geography of Malaysia Malaysia, a federation of thirteen states in South-East Asia on the Malay Peninsula, consists of two geographical regions divided by the South China Sea, the Peninsular Malaysia or West Malaysia and Malaysian Borneo or East Malaysia. Malaysia is situated in South-eastern Asia with Thailand and one-third of the island of Borneo bordering […]
Read More »Singapore Geography The country of Singapore consists of one main island (small and extensively urbanized) as well as over 60 small islands (islets). The middle of the main island contains a number of rounded hills; west and southwest the land is a series of low ridges, while east and southeast, the land is generally flat. […]
Read More »Geography of Philippines Philippines is an island nation located in Southeast Asia between the Philippine Sea and the South China Sea, east of Vietnam. According to the geography of Philippines, the country is made up of 7,107 islands, with a total area of 300,000 sq km. The country’s land area occupies 298,170 sq km while […]
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