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found at the tip of the Malay Peninsula is thought by academics to refer to either Singapore or Johor. Find the Selden Map at the very start of the exhibition, in Singapore before 1800s.
The exhibition will run from May 24, 2025, to Oct 9, 2026. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Titled Malay Peninsula: Old Photographs of Malaya and Singapore, the clothbound limited edition book, containing 139 photographs from the personal collection of the Sultan of Selangor, Sultan ...
On the Malay Peninsula, which is about the size of Florida, Malays and Chinese are now about equal in numbers (2,500,000 each). But only in Singapore, which is a British Crown Colony, do native ...
This is the same map in which Malaysia claimed Pedra Branca as its own. 1980: Singapore lodged a diplomatic protest with Malaysia over its 1979 map, asserting that the boundary lines indicated in ...
1890s - With the rubber industry established in Malaya and Singapore, the island became a global centre for rubber exports. 1938 - UK completes British Naval Base Singapore, as a Royal Navy base ...