Crossword clues for malaya
malaya
- Rubber region
- 1941-42 Allies vs. Japanese battle locale
- Singapore lies just off its tip
- A constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula
- Achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1957
- Former federation in SE Asia
- Asian peninsula
- Asiatic peninsula
- Thailand's neighbor
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Malaysia \Malaysia\ prop. n. A country in Southeast Asia including the former nation of Malaya on the Malay Peninsula, and part of Borneo; sometimes still referred to as Malaya.
Malaya \Malaya\ prop. n. Formerly, an Asian country on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula, now part of Malaysia.
Wikipedia
__NOTOC__ Malaya may refer to:
- Malay Peninsula, a region in southeast Asia
- Malay Archipelago, the broader macroregion
- Malaya Mountains, place in Hindu mythology
Malaya is a 1949 war film starring Spencer Tracy and James Stewart and set in colonial Malaya during World War II. It was directed by Richard Thorpe. The supporting cast includes Lionel Barrymore, Sydney Greenstreet, John Hodiak and DeForest Kelley.
Malaya is a broadsheet newspaper in the Philippines, headquartered at Intramuros, Manila and owned by People's Independent Media Inc. The newspaper is known for being one of the publications that fought against the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos.
The newspaper also publishes a business section called the Malaya Business Insight which is placed before the actual Malaya.
Usage examples of "malaya".
Amery telegraphed in this sense to the Viceroy on the same day, and Lord Linlithgow and the Commander-in-Chief, General Auchinleck, promptly offered to divert to Basra an infantry brigade and a regiment of field artillery, most of which was already on board ship for Malaya.
You are speaking of what you might call the memsahib days, the days when there were Service communities in Malaya.
He had grown and been conscripted and sailed for Malaya, and then died violently at nineteen, with his paybook in his pocket.
Events have unfortunately justified our views regarding Malaya, and I am very disturbed by reports from Gordon Bennett as to the seriousness of the position.
The Communist insurrection in Malaya had started in 1948, and twelve hundred guerrillas, under the leadership of Chin Peng, still subsisted in the mountains along the Malay-That border.
Well-meaning, over-civilized men, in dark suits and black felt hats, with neatly rolled umbrellas crooked over the left forearm, were imposing their constipated view of life on Malaya and Nigeria, Mombasa and Mandalay.
Since you have been beaten so easily by the Nipponese in Malaya and you surrendered so weakly in Singapore and elsewhere, we think it is time you finished your adventures in the East.
It confers a common dignity upon the French soldier who dies in Indo-China, the British soldier killed in Malaya, the American life given in Korea.
What shameful Whitehall records might we not have uncovered of hideous episodes in India, in Egypt, in Malaya, inv South Africa, in fact wherever British imperialism carried the Union Jack, and British arms brutally suppressed native populations which resisted being bled dry for Anglo-Saxon enrichment?
Others were taken by representatives from the Foreign Ministry and by allied diplomats: men from Germany and Italy, from Romania and Hungary and Bulgaria, from Croatia and Vichy France, from Manchukuo and Siam, from the Japanese puppet government of China in Nanking, and from the even less powerful authorities Japan had set up with the aid of nationalists in Burma, Malaya, and the Philippines.