In 1901, Australia passed a set of racialised laws around immigration commonly known as the White Australia Policy. It sought to severely limit the number of non-British immigrants to Australia. In the wake of the Second World War, Chinese and Malay men who had courageously defended Australia during wartime found themselves forcibly deported to Hong Kong and Singapore. Families were ripped apart, causing trauma that lasted generations. The Exiles follows the descendants who battled this discriminatory policy, and reunites one Singapore family after seventy-five years apart from their Australian relatives.

cross-posted from: https://monyet.cc/post/619440

More Singaporean side but I think the general findings applicable here. Got it from @penangkia@monyet.cc fedi post! https://hachyderm.io/@liztai/111028272906205950

Yes, as a boring person this is what's catching my interest on merdeka day. Open access too.

Abstract

The abrupt separation of Singapore and Malaysia in 1965 set these two states on separate political trajectories, but the economic ties proved more difficult to untangle. This article explores the nine years of transition required to complete the separation of the monetary systems of the two territories based on new archival evidence. It argues that, while socio-political hostility raged between the two partners, common economic interests prolonged an intimate monetary relationship that extended the interdependence of the two states for many years beyond their formal separation.

Sorry guys, I tried to find an article online that goes more into the historic aspects of the Hungry Ghosts Festival as celebrated here in Malaysia, but literally everything focuses on the now, since this is very much a living experience. I am adamant of posting something about it today regardless, since today's the peak of Ghost Month for those who celebrate it.

General articles on the hungry Ghost Festival:

• https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2023/08/19/a-festival-for-wandering-spirits
• https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2017/09/08/hungry-ghost-festival-when-spirits-roam-penang-and-are-entertained/1460415

cross-posted from: https://monyet.cc/post/468420

There was a lot of branches and minor lines featured in this map, which have since been dismantled:

• Klang-Kuala Selangor
• Ipoh-Tronoh
• Tapah-Teluk Anson (Teluk Intan)
• Taiping-Port Weld (Kuala Sepetang)
• Kuang-Batu Arang-Batang Berjuntai
• Salak Selatan-Sultan Street-Ampang (now taken over by Ampang LRT)
• Tampin-Melaka
• Bahau-Kuala Pilah

Also shown are a lot of proposed routes that never got built