The mainstream newspapers in Penang include the English dailies such: The Star, New Straits Times, The Sun, The Edge, The Malaysian Reserve and The Malay Mail ; the Malaysian dailies such: Berita Harian, Utusan Malaysia, Harian Metro and Kosmo!

The New Straits Times is printed by the New Straits Times Press, which also produced the English language afternoon newspaper, The Malay Mail, until 1 January 2008, as well as assorted Malay language newspapers, most notably the Berita Harian.

" The third design-by Mohamad Hamzah of the Public Works Department-was chosen as the winner through a public poll held by The Malay Mail.

The Malaysia operations of the Straits Times, the Sunday Times, the Malay Mail, the Sunday Mail, Berita Harian and Berita Minggu were transferred to this new company.

The Malay Mail is a newspaper in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, first published in 1 December 1896 when KL was the capital of the then new Federated Malay States, making it the first daily to appear in the FMS.

In 1997, the Malay Mail was the NSTP Berhad's single most profitable unit through its grip on classifieds which, in the nature of a virtuous cycle, actually intensified its popularity.

The Malay Mail couldn't, or wouldn't, offer such rebates – and it prompted a shift to The Star with the Malay Mail losing its position as the leading classifieds newspaper.

The Malay Mail was linked to another daily newspaper, the New Straits Times via its holding company, NSTP Berhad.

At the time, NSTP Berhad had a whole range of newspapers including New Straits Times, the New Sunday Times, the Malay Mail, the Sunday Mail, the Berita Harian and its Sunday edition Berita Minggu and the late-morning Bahasa Malaysia tabloids Harian Metro and Metro Ahad.

The more senior reporters from the Malay Mail were transferred to the New Straits Times and the nationwide circulation of the Malay Mail was reduced and limited to Klang Valley.

In early 2005, plans were unveiled to change the direction of the paper and has offered voluntary separation scheme to senior writers and journalists of the Malay Mail.

The Malay Mail ’ s circulation has slid from its peak of over 60, 000 in the mid-1980s.

Media Prima Berhad relaunched the Malay Mail on 5 May 2008 as a free afternoon paper but still failed to turn around the losses.

The new revamped Malay Mail has taken that stand.

Wallace was a prolific author who wrote on both scientific and social issues ; his account of his adventures and observations during his explorations in Indonesia and Malaysia, The Malay Archipelago, was one of the most popular and influential journals of scientific exploration published during the 19th century.

According to Malay culture, amok was rooted in a deep spiritual belief.

The Malay was lost 27 July 1842 on the Europa Rocks.

Through Cornwall, Gardner was introduced to many locals, whom he soon befriended, including members of the Senoi and Malay peoples.

Although Muslims had passed through Malaysia as early as the 10th century, it was not until the 14th and 15th centuries that Islam first established itself on the Malay Peninsula.

A fourth phase of foreign influence was immigration of Chinese and Indian workers to meet the needs of the colonial economy created by the British in the Malay Peninsula and Borneo.

This was followed by an early-Holocene dispersal through the Malay Peninsula into the Malay Archipelago.

The Malays remained politically fragmented throughout the Malay archipelago, although a common culture and social structure was shared.

The Buddha-Gupta stone, dating to the 4th-5th century CE, was dedicated by an Indian Merchant, Buddha Gupta, as an expression of gratitude for his safe arrival after a voyage to the Malay peninsula.

The Malay Peninsula was known to ancient Tamils as Suvarnadvipa or the " Golden Peninsula ".

Between the 7th and the 13th century, much of the Malay peninsula was under the Buddhist Srivijaya empire.

The port of Malacca on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula was founded in 1402 by Parameswara, a Srivijaya prince fleeing Temasek ( now Singapore ), Malaysia formally came into being on 16 September 1963, consisting of Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore.

Since a third of the Malay workforce worked in the rubber industry it was important to develop alternative sources of employment.

Although the Chinese and Indian communities could maintain their own Chinese and Tamil-language primary schools, all their students were required to learn Malay, and to study an agreed “ Malayan curriculum .” Most importantly, the entry exam to the University of Malaya ( which moved from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur in 1963 ) would be conducted in Malay, even though most teaching at the university was in English until the 1970s.

Gerakan was a deliberately non-communal party, bringing in Malay trade unionists and intellectuals as well as Chinese and Indian leaders.

The Constitution was changed to make illegal any criticism, even in Parliament, of the Malaysian monarchy, the special position of Malays in the country, or the status of Malay as the national language.

This latter figure was deceptive because many businesses that appeared to be Malay-owned were still indirectly controlled by Chinese, but there is no doubt that the Malay share of the economy considerably increased.

The Chinese remained disproportionately powerful in Malaysian economic life, but by 2000 the distinction between Chinese and Malay business was fading as many new corporations, particularly in growth sectors such as information technology, were owned and managed by people from both ethnic groups.

The result of this was that the PAS won a number of Malay seats from UMNO, but many Chinese voters disapproved of this unnatural alliance with the Islamist PAS, causing the DAP to lose many of its seats to the MCA, including that of its veteran leader, Lim Kit Siang.

In Southeast Asian countries where Muslim Malay peoples live, such as Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, ivory was the material of choice for making the handles of kris daggers.

The idea of uniting former British and Dutch colonial possessions in Southeast Asia actually have its roots in early 20th century, as the concept of Greater Malay ( Melayu Raya ) was coined in British Malaya espoused by students and graduates of Sultan Idris Training College for Malay Teachers in the late 1920s.

Wallace did extensive fieldwork, first in the Amazon River basin and then in the Malay Archipelago, where he identified the Wallace Line that divides the Indonesian archipelago into two distinct parts, one in which animals closely related to those of Australia are common, and one in which the species are largely of Asian origin.

Since then, the series has also been dubbed into Tagalog, French, Italian, German, Arabic, Spanish, Indonesian, Malay and Portuguese.

One of them, the Edward Bonventure, then sailed around Cape Comorin and on to the Malay Peninsula and subsequently returned to England in 1594.

In addition, local dialects employ derivations of the Malay word then in use for ' silver ', in contrast to the term used in wider Melanesian society, which has etymological roots in Chinese, a consequence of the regional trade with China that was developed in the 6th and 7th centuries.

In 2005 she gave a speech that stated: " If there are young Malay entrepreneurs whose companies are successful, then we appreciate their success, we want Towering Malays of glokal ( global and local ) standard ".

Formerly a municipality and then a city in its own right, since 1976 George Town has been part of the municipality of Penang Island, though the area formerly governed by the city council is still commonly referred to as a city, and is also known as Tanjung (" The Cape ") in Malay, 乔治市 ( Qiáozhì Shì ) in Chinese and ஜ ோ ர ் ஜ ் டவ ு ன ் ( Georgetown ) in Tamil.

The name " Cochinchina " was coined by Portuguese traders circa 1516, who named it then " Cochin-China " to distinguish it from the city and princely state of Cochin in India, their first headquarters in the Malabar Coast., from the Malay Kuchi which referred to all of Vietnam, a term derived from the Chinese Jiāozhǐ, pronounced Giao Chỉ in Vietnam.

The original towns were Altavas, Balete, Batan, Banga, Buruanga, Ibajay, Kalibo, Lezo, Libacao, Madalag, Malay, Makato, Malinao, Nabas, New Washington, Numancia, and Tangalan, then all part of the province of Capiz.

With the fall of Malacca in 1511, Kelantan was divided up and ruled by petty chieftains, paying tribute to Patani, then the supreme Malay Kingdom of the eastern peninsula.

PAS won big in 1999, due in significant part to Malay anger over the treatment of former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim by then – Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammed and other officials of the national government.

PKKM established the Pusat Tenaga Rakyat ( PUTERA ), a conglomeration of radical Malay Political Parties and then merged with the All-Malaya Council of Joint Action ( AMCJA ) which thoroughly opposed the 1948 Federation Agreement for the foundation of the Federation of Malaya.

Hashing originated in December 1938 in Kuala Lumpur, then in the Federated Malay States ( now Malaysia ), when a group of British colonial officers and expatriates began meeting on Monday evenings to run, in a fashion patterned after the traditional British Paper Chase or " Hare and Hounds ", to rid themselves of the excesses of the previous weekend.

* Federated Malay States ( 1895 – 1946 ) ( Negeri-negeri Melayu Bersekutu ), historical British protectorate in then British Malaya

He studied at the Arau Malay School until standard two, then from 5 January 1950 he continued his primary education at Wellesley Primary School in Penang followed by Westland Primary School until the end of 1955.

By then, Malay language become lingua franca and was spoken widely by most people in the archipelago.

Notably in certain complex colonial units within the British Empire, the High Commissioner to whom was given the highest ' regional ' supervision ( either residing in one of the constitutive territories, e. g. in the British Western Pacific Territories ( BWPT ), first by the Governor on Fiji, then from 1952 onwards on the Solomon Islands ; or even in a neighbouring colony, e. g. the Governor of the Straits Settlements as High Commissioner for the Federated Malay States ) would commonly be represented in territories not comprising his residence by a Resident Commissioner, though in some places ( including some of the Federated Malay States ) similar officials were formally styled as Residents, a more diplomatic title ; otherwise another type of official was also possible ( e. g. the British Consul in the protected state of Tonga, a Polynesian kingdom ; an Administrator on Nauru ; a mere Chief Magistrate on tiny Pitcairn ).

He retained a magician to look at his concubines to see which one could conceive an heir, and the magician looked at all of them and opined that none was destined to give him an heir — but then he saw a dark-skinned maid who was working with textiles, who was derogatorily referred to as a Malay, named Li Lingrong, and he, in surprised, yelled out, " She is the one!

The Malaysian New Economic Policy ( NEP or DEB for Dasar Ekonomi Baru in Malay ; Jawi: داس َ ر ايكونومي بارو ), was an ambitious and controversial socio-economic restructuring affirmative action program launched by the Malaysian government in 1971 under the then Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak.

Educated at the Kuala Terengganu Malay School, he then went to the Malay College.

The craftwork was sent to Raffles Hotel in Singapore under the brand name “ Pertukangan Tangan Melayu Selangor ” ( The Selangor Malay Handicrafts ) and sponsored by the wife of the Governor of Singapore back then.

Razaleigh took over the family business, and then joined the United Malays National Organisation ( UMNO ), a major Malay political party.

Arabic was a major source of vocabulary for languages as diverse as Berber, spoken Indonesian, Kurdish, Malay, Maltese, Persian, Portuguese, Sindhi, Punjabi, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Turkish, Urdu, as well as other languages in countries where these languages are spoken ; a process that reached its high point in the 10th to the 14th centuries, the high point of Arabic culture, and although many of these words have fallen out of use since then, many remain.

Lee Hsien Loong ( then Second Minister for Defence ) stated that " If there is a conflict, if the SAF is called to defend the homeland, we do not want to put any of our soldiers in a difficult position where his emotions for the nation may be in conflict with his religion " and in The Roar of the Lion City ( 2007 ), military analyst Sean Walsh claimed that " official discrimination against the Malay population remains an open secret ".