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  • .../moses.htm</ref> Until 1965 the paper carried news of the whole of British Malaya. After Singapore became independent from Malaysia in August 1965, the paper
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  • ...for his involvement in World War II, when he unsuccessfully commanded the British forces during the Battle of Singapore, and surrendered to the much smaller * 1939: He commanded the 43rd Division of the British Expeditionary Force.
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  • ...dian subcontinent to Singapore and Malaysia (known collectively as British Malaya in the pre-World War II colonial period). A small and shrinking number of o ...first Hindu temple, the [[Sri Mariamman Temple]]. The early settlements in Malaya (called the Straits Settlements), were ruled by the colonial government in
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  • ...s, sculpture, printmaking, and natural history drawings from the country's British colonial period; along with Chinese-influenced Nanyang style paintings, soc ...n art academy. While Raffles did intend for the teaching of art, the first British art teacher, Richard Walker, would only arrive almost a hundred years after
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