For the past three months of their eight-year war against Malaya’s Communist terrorists, British and Malayan police and soldiers have been so ordered: before firing on suspects, they must call out the ...

IT was a war that raged for 12 years but is now almost forgotten, except by those who fought in it. The Malayan War has been all but erased from British history, but for soldiers like Keith Swift it ...

When the Japanese invaded Malaya, a plain-faced Eurasian woman named Sybil Kathigasu was living in the town of Ipoh with her doctor-husband, Addon, and their four-year-old daughter, Dawn. The ...