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2 unusual facts about Malays


Kangkar Pulai

It is a primary school that has its students taught in Mandarin Chinese, the language teachers use, the text books students use are communicated in Mandarin, apart from Malays class or English class of course.

Kolej Islam Malaya

The erection of a religious higher education institution by the Malays were started since before the independence of Malaya.


Banjar people

The division of Banjar people into 3 ethnicities is based on the locations of the assimilation between the Malays, the local Dayaks (Dayak Bukit, Dayak Ma’anyan, Dayak Lawangan, Dayak Ngaju, Dayak Barangas, and Bakumpai), and the Javanese.

Berau Malays

The Berau people or Berau Malays live in Berau, in the north of East Kalimantan in Indonesia.

Biro Tata Negara

Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad, another alumnus and assemblyman for Seri Setia in the State Legislative Assembly of Selangor, claimed that the BTN camp he attended was "racial and political in nature," with trainers telling attendees that Malays require affirmative action and criticising the opposition Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) as "deviationist".

Cross Street

The Tamils called it palkadei sadakku, or "street of the milk shops", while the Malays called it kampong susu or "milk village".

East Sumatra revolution

Several factors have been attributed to the outbreak of violence: the widespread belief that the sultans collaborated with Dutch colonial forces; resentment of the aristocratic class, and tension between ethnic and non-ethnic Malays.

The Javanese, the third-largest group at this time, were perceived by the Malays to have a lower social status than themselves.

Entrenched clause

Article 152 specifies the Malay language as the national language of Malaysia; Article 153 grants the Malays special privileges; Article 181 covers the position of the Malay rulers; and Part III deals with matters of citizenship.

Governance and law of Penang

In fact, Malays in Penang are only second to their counterparts in the Klang Valley.

Harold MacMichael

Communal tensions between the Malays and Chinese were high, and the prospect of granting citizenship to non-Malays was deemed unacceptable to the Malays.

History of Sabah

This wave of migration is believed to represent the time when the indigenous hill people of present day Sabah had first arrived, namely the Murut and the Kadazan-Dusun, while Brunei Malays settlement appeared somewhat later.

Ismail Abdul Rahman

Ismail's initial friends were predominantly Malay, but when he continued his education at the English College Johore Bahru, Ismail gravitated to non-Malays due to his interest in the opposite sex — Chinese girls often being given more freedom to mingle than their Malay counterparts in those days.

Malayisation

Further down the east coast, the Paser polity had extended its influence into the Barito-speaking Dayak, and some of these people became Muslim and were eventually referred to as 'Paser Malays'.

Malaysian Australian

In the case of Cocos Islands, the Malays were first brought as slaves under Alexander Hare in 1826, but were then employed as coconut harvesters for copra.

Malaysian names

Additionally, names of Arab-Hebrew origins that are seldom used by the Muslim Arabs are widespread among Malays, such as the female names of Meriam or Miriam (the Arabs commonly spell it as Maryam), Saloma and Rohana.

Melanau people

They make up the 5th largest ethnic group in Sarawak, after the Ibans, Chinese, Malays and Bidayuh.

Onn Jaafar

Early Malay nationalism took root in Johor during the 1920s as Onn Jaafar, whom Sultan Ibrahim had treated as an adopted son, became a journalist and wrote articles on the welfare of the Malays.

Sardon Haji Jubir

At Raffles, he formed a Malay literary association with friends including Aziz Ishak, Hamid Jumaat, and Ahmad Ibrahim and contributed articles on the Malays and their plight to Warta Malaya, a leading Malay newspaper in Singapore.

Slavery in Seychelles

The third group was a small minority of Indian and Malays known as Malabars, usually trained as domestic servants and the fourth and largest group was the Mozambiques, brought from the country by boat to work on the plantations.

The Long Day Wanes

He was no doubt thinking of himself as much as of Fauconnier when he wrote: "Perhaps the best of all Malayan fiction is, strangely, by a Frenchman – Malaisie, by Henri Fauconnier, a Prix Goncourt winner of the twenties. Its strength lies in its author's knowledge of the Malays, which naturally entails a knowledge of the Malay language."

Tun Fatimah

According to Malaysian historians it was a sly foreign Datuk of Malacca who gave out the secrets to them to conquer the city, and thus had eventually made the Malays lost their control of it.


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