The history of the Malay language, from Pallava to Jawi to modern Malay, simplified
So recently, there’s a huge uproar about teaching SJK students khat, or calligraphy in Jawi script. We won’t go into too much detail about that, …
Posts in category History
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24/06/2019 In the 1950s, the British RAF parachuted cats down into Sarawak. Yes, really.
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31/01/2019 7 Malaysians super-sweet stories of how their parents got together :*)
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24/01/2019 How did your mummy and daddy get together? Tell us & win an angpow for them :)
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24/09/2018 Operation Dawn 8: The real-life commandos who inspired the movie ‘PASKAL’
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30/08/2018 What was it like in the early years after Merdeka? Tunku Abdul Rahman tells us…
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We walked upstream along Penang’s Prangin ‘river’. Here’s what we found
We’ve all seen it: the image of the crystal-clear Prangin Canal in Penang with koi fishes swimming in it, with the caption comparing the sight to …
Tasik Chini is drying up. Will we finally see if Malaysia’s Loch Ness monster exists?
The mythical strength of Hercules. The legendary adventures of Sun Wukong. The blood sucking tales of Na Nosferatu. We all love a good myth, whether …
3 things you didn’t know about our Agong’s elite Royal Guards
This article was originally published Oct 2018. If you’ve ever been to London, chances are you’ve visited Buckingham Palace and tried to make the …
Going for pameran Da Vinci in KL this weekend? Here’s your artsnob cheatsheet
So YES, the big news is that the world’s most famous painting – the Mona Lisa is here in KL! Kinda. There’s an exhibit of Da …
How did two WWII shipwrecks just vanish from Pahang waters with no media coverage?
If you’d like more stories like this, feel free to join our HARI INI DALAM SEJARAH Facebook group 😀 Almost as if it was something straight …
Maszlee wants to include 1MDB in Sejarah textbooks. When will you see it in schools?
In December 2018, Education Minister, Maszlee Malik, reportedly announced that the 1MDB scandal would be in Sejarah textbooks… soon! “I will make sure that 1MDB and …
Why does Singapore own a random lighthouse 45km away on Johor’s west coast?
[Artikel ini diterjemah daripada rakan rakan kami kat Soscili. Kalau nak baca artikel ni dalam BM, klik sini!] With us sharing a border with four …
7 stark differences between Malaysian university students today vs 1960s
Just throw a stone in any direction, and you’re bound to hit a college/university graduate on the head. (Err don’t throw too hard la, people study …
[UPDATE] This PAS guy says asset declaration is un-Islamic… but he thought differently in 2012
UPDATE: We included a video of Tuan Ibrahim’s speech for your reference. (Artikel asal ditulis dalam BM. Klik sini kalau nak baca!) The Dewan …
