# Anyone born in the federation, conversant in the Malay language and following Malay traditions in his or her daily life

The language of daily communication is Alor Malay, a unique Malay variety with some similarities to Kupang Malay.

Pork and any non-halal meats, also alcohol is prohibited and absent from Malay daily diet.

The Indonesian used in Singkawang commonly for daily conversation is not standard Indonesian, but has some Malay influence on vocabulary as Malay is the closest language to Indonesian, as Singkawang people have for years been accustomed to Malay.

They no longer speak the Malay languages and other languages which their ancestors used, although various Malay words and phrases are still employed in daily usage.

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.

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

TV3, together with 8TV and local English language daily the New Straits Times and Malay language daily Berita Harian form the largest media group in Malaysia collectively known as Media Prima Berhad.

Turning then to journalism, he edited two Malay newspapers, the Lembaga Melayu and the Warta Malaya, the first independent Malay daily.

On December 14, 2011, Lim has won the defamation suit against Malay daily Utusan Malaysia, which has been ordered by the Penang High Court to pay a total of RM200, 00 worth of damages and a cost of RM25, 000 to him.

The Malay daily also claimed Lim as being racist and anti-Malay after the Pakatan Rakyat 2010 Convention.

Roll On, Roll Off ( RORO ) buses have daily Manila-Antique back and forth trips that passes through the provinces of Batangas and Mindoro and in Malay Aklan where the famed Boracay island is.

This is in stark contrast to the rest of the general population of Malay speakers in both Malaysia and Indonesia that use the Latin script in daily communication, known in Malay as rumi ( رومي ).

Before the Brunei People ’ s Party electoral success, a military wing had emerged, the North Kalimantan National Army ( Malay abbreviation TNKU, Tentera Nasional Kalimantan Utara ), which saw itself as an anti-colonialist liberation party.

Here, Gardner made friends with an American man known as Cornwall, who had converted to Islam and married a local Malay woman.

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.

Islamic culture has had a profound influence on the Malay people, but has also been influenced by them.

In the early centuries of the first millennium, the people of the Malay Peninsula adopted the Indian religions of Hinduism and Buddhism, religions which had a major effect on the language and culture of those living in Malaysia.

This had the effect of creating a large new Malay professional class.

Malaysia has had regular elections since 1974, and although campaigning is reasonably free at election time, it is in effect a one-party state, with the UMNO-controlled National Front usually winning nearly all the seats, while the DAP wins some Chinese urban seats and the PAS some rural Malay ones.

Portuguese chronicles noted that the king of Sukhothai had sent an expedition to Malacca at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula in 1455.

Indianized kingdoms such as the Mon, Khmer and Malay kingdoms had ruled the region.

The Malay prince was married to a Khmer princess who had fled an Angkorian dynastic bloodbath.

By that time, the Old Malay language had become a lingua franca and was spoken widely by most people in the archipelago.

However, as most of the mission schools had been assimilated into the national education system, they are referred to as " sekolah menengah " in Malay.

Graydon on his first trip in 1907 had travelled the ' Straits Settlements ' ( largely the Federated Malay States and Singapore ), China, and Japan, but was not able to do much.

* In the Northwest area of the current Ankoala ( from kuala, " estuary " in Malay and Indonesian ) where the Hova Orang Laut ( Antalaotra in Malagasy ) had probably established their base for their Indian Ocean operations.

By the early 18th century, the table sauce had made it to the Malay states ( present day Malaysia and Singapore ), where it was discovered by British explorers, and by 1740, it had become a British staple.

Since 1928, nationalists and young people throughout the Indonesian archipelago had declared Malay to be Indonesia's only official language, as proclaimed in the Sumpah Pemuda " Youth Vow.

Champa also had close trade and cultural relations with the powerful maritime empire of Srivijaya and later with the Majapahit of the Malay Archipelago.

Consequently, silat teachers were very cautious in letting their art become apparent because the colonists had experience in fighting Malay warriors.

It may have had limited or entirely notional influence over some of the tributary states in included Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula, Kalimantan and eastern Indonesia over which of authority was claimed in the Nagarakertagama.

Evidence also exists ( see Reece cited in references below ) that Charles Brooke had another son, Esca Brooke, born of a liaison with a native Malay woman which was unrecognized in English law.

The Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824, designed to solve many of the issues that had arisen due to the British occupation of Dutch properties during the Napoleonic Wars, as well as issues regarding the rights to trade that existed for hundreds of years in the Spice Islands between the two nations, was a treaty that addressed a wide array of issues and did not clearly describe the limitations of expansion by either side in the Malay world.

The British Governor of the crown colony of the Straits Settlements, based in Singapore, doubled as High Commissioner of the Federated Malay States, and had authority over the Resident-General in Kuala Lumpur, who in turn was responsible for the various Residents appointed to the native rulers of the Malay states under British protection.

Siamese authorities had exercised a substantial control over Malay sultanates since Ayutthaya times.

The population of the Banda Islands prior to Dutch conquest is generally estimated to have been around 13, 000-15, 000 people, some of whom were Malay and Javanese traders, as well as Chinese and Arabs.

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

Among the earliest kingdoms known to have been based in what is now Malaysia is the ancient empire of Langkasuka, located in the northern Malay Peninsula and based somewhere in Kedah.

Driving on the left has been compulsory since the introduction of motorcars in Federated Malay States in 1903 during British colonial era.

It has been noted that the likely origin of the word comes specifically from the Banjarese variety of Malay.

Around the 1st century AD, according to Funan epigraphy and the records of Chinese historians ( Coedes ), a number of trading settlements of the South appear to have been organized into several Malay states, among the earliest of which are believed to be Langkasuka and Tambralinga.

* Khmer and Malay theatre – In Cambodia, at the ancient capital Angkor Wat, stories from the Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata have been carved on the walls of temples and palaces.

It is a standardized register of Malay, an Austronesian language which has been used as a lingua franca in the Indonesian archipelago for centuries.

Originally spoken in Northeast Sumatra, Malay has been used as a lingua franca in the Indonesian archipelago for half a millennium.

Since the 7th century, the Old Malay language has been used in Nusantara ( Indonesian archipelago ), marked by Srivijaya inscriptions and in other inscriptions of coastal areas of the archipelago, such as those discovered in Java.

Malaysian Malay claims to be closer to the classical Malay of earlier centuries even though modern Malaysian has been heavily influenced, in lexicon as well as in syntax, by English.

A settlement having now been established, under British protection, and in the midst of those islands which are inhabited by a large Malay and Chinese population, reinforcements were sent out from England.

This analysis has been questioned by some historians, most notably Dr. Kua Kia Soong, the principal of New Era College, who has put forward the controversial argument that the May 13 Incident was a pre-meditated attempt by sections of the ruling Malay elite to incite racial hostility in preparation for a coup.

In Malaysia, the term kampung ( sometimes spelling kampong ) in the English language has been defined specifically as " a Malay hamlet or village in a Malay-speaking country ".

The island may also have been visited by Swahili or Malay sailors.

Not to feed them with this obscurantist doctrine that all they have got to do is to get Malay rights for the few special Malays and their problem has been resolved.

Recently, members of the Indian community have also been vocal in demonstrating for Hindu rights and protesting that their community has long been worse off than the Malay community, a situation compounded by unfavorable treatment as non-Bumiputras.

It is spoken natively by 40 million people across the Malacca Strait, including the coasts of the Malay Peninsula of Malaysia and the eastern coast of Sumatra in Indonesia, and has been established as a native language of part of western coastal Sarawak and West Kalimantan in Borneo.

Historically, Malay has been written using various scripts.

Since 1968, Malay has been the country's sole official language.

Many also claim the structures have also been borrowed from the Malay language, but the amount of borrowing from Malay dwarves in comparison to the borrowing from Chinese.