THE STORY OF MALAYSIA

Author: Harry Miller

Publisher: S.A. Majeed & Co., 2007

ISBN: 9831975855

Call Number: 959.5 MIL

Malaysia comprises fourteen states in South-East Asia which became a political entity and a monarchy on 16th September 1963. It’s units were former British protectorates and colonies-the sovereign federation of Malaya of nine Malay States and two British settlements which had achieved independence on 31st August 1957, the self-governing island State of Singapore immediately to its south, and the colonies of British North Borneo, now Sabah, and Sarawak, along the north-west coast of Borneo. Certainly no other federation in modern history was born after such a dramatic series of internal and external misunderstandings, tensions and crises, and finally threats of war from a once-friendly neighbors, Indonesia

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