Download or read book Sayonara Singapura written by Parapuram Joseph John and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was editor of The Malaya Tribune, a daily newspaper in Singapore, sleepily okaying Page One when 17 Japanese Zero bombers shattered the night. It was December 8, 1941. Having been fed daily stories full of optimism from London, we in Singapore hadn’t an inkling that war with Japan was imminent … I sneaked out when there was a pause in the bombing. Limbs of every description – European, Indian, Chinese, Malay and Eurasian – were everywhere. Parapuram Joseph John – ‘John’ to all – is given an ultimatum by the Japanese invaders: work for us or face the consequences. He becomes No.2 at the Domei news agency, working on Japanese propaganda in Southeast Asia and broadcasting propaganda to Indian troops in India, urging them to switch sides and fight against the British, for which he receives a special commendation from Heinrich Himmler – ‘I was not happy about Himmler’s intrusion into my life, but I kept my mouth shut and my neck intact’. John writes about wanton killings in Singapore and Malaya, the daily struggle to find food, and Blood Alley in Penang, where he witnesses a ‘cleansing’. He talks candidly about the rise of the Indian National Army and its charismatic leader Subhas Chandra Bose (whom he meets on several occasions), the creation of the all-female Rani of Jhansi combat regiment and the lure of the nationalist call of ‘Challo Dilli’ (‘On to Delhi’). This is a fascinating eyewitness account of the Japanese occupation of Singapore and Malaya as told by a career journalist. Following the war, John returned to The Malaya Tribune, where his deputy was S. Rajaratnam, the future Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore.

Download or read book Sayonara Singapura written by Parapuram Joseph John and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Death of Sally Song written by Julianne Cheah and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The millennium is ending and Singapore, now a glittering economic powerhouse, is loosening up and partying. Pagers connect everyone and Singapore's love affair with big chain coffee has just begun. In Holland Village, avid mystery reader Mei is raising the shutters on the Can-Do bookshop. Juggling her job, her family, her friends and worries about her future is keeping her busy but when a customer is murdered, Mei needs to know why. Taking lessons from her favourite detectives, the always inquisitive — some would say kaypoh — Mei navigates the darker side of Singapore to find out what really led to the death of Sally Song.

Download or read book Pai Naa written by Dorothy Thatcher and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time the British surrendered to the Japanese in February 1942 at the fall Singapore, nearly all white civilians had left Malaya. One remarkable exception to the white flight was Nona Baker, ‘a parson’s youngest daughter’ from Dunstable, Bedfordshire. Nona Baker and her brother, Vin, general manager of Sungei Lembing tin mine in Pahang, stayed behind in the Malayan jungle and were later adopted by Chinese guerrillas (who, after World War Two, would become the Communist terrorists of the Malayan Emergency). Against all odds, this remarkable, brave young woman, known as Pai Naa (White Nona), remained in the jungle for three years, avoiding capture by the Japanese and betrayal by spies before being delivered safely into the care of war hero Freddie Spencer Chapman. With hair cut short Nona Baker worked alongside the men while under constant threat of discovery and certain death, and with the men she suffered from malaria, dysentery, beriberi, hunger and, above all, fear.

Download or read book A Company of Planters written by John Dodd and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a collection of letters written to his best friend and to his father in England, and from his own personal diary entries, John Dodd’s memoir offers a fascinating and amusing glimpse of life as a colonial rubber planter. With true stories and confessions that would make even Somerset Maugham blush, we discover what life was really like for young colonial planters in late-1950s Malaya. Increasing daily rubber output may have been their goal but for the young planters the bigger picture of chasing girls and finding a ‘keep’ was of much greater importance. But life was more than just a series of stengahs in the clubhouse, dalliances in the Chinese brothels of Penang and charming ‘pillow dictionaries’ – there were strikes, riots, snakes, plantation fires and deadly ambushes by Communist terrorists to contend with. Set against the backdrop of the Emergency period, the rise of nationalism and Malaya’s subsequent Independence, A Company of Planters is a very personal, moving and humorous account of one man’s experiences on the frequently isolated rubber plantations of colonial Malaya.

Download or read book Economic Diplomacy in the Land of the Cherry Blossom written by Mon-Cheng Wee and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Touring Variety in the Asia Pacific Region 1946 1975 written by Jonathan Bollen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aviation extended the horizon of international touring across Asia and the Pacific in the 1950s and 1960s. Nightclubs in Hong Kong, Manila, Melbourne, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, and Taipei presented an international array of touring acts. This book investigates how this happened. It explores the post-war formation of the Asia Pacific region through international touring and the transformation of entertainment during the ‘jet age’ of aviation. Drawing on archival research across the region, Bollen investigates how touring variety forged new relations between artists, audiences, and nations. Mapping tours and tracing networks by connecting fragments, he reveals how versatile artists translated repertoire in circulation as they toured, and how entrepreneurial endeavours harnessed the production of national distinction to government agendas. He argues that touring variety on commercial circuits diversified the repertoire in regional circulation, anticipating the diversity emerging in state-sanctioned multiculturalisms, and driving the government-construction of national theatres for cultural diplomacy.

Download or read book National Lampoon written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book ICHR Newsletter written by Indian Council of Historical Research and published by . This book was released on 1977-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Curious Adventures of a Doctor from Jaffna written by K. Puvanendran and published by Editions Didier Millet. This book was released on 2013 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a childhood spent playing marbles and climbing trees in Ceylon to a medical career in bustling Singapore, Dr K. Puvanendran’s experiences have been rich and varied. A leading neurologist, he counts kings and presidents among his former patients. This charmingly written autobiography traces the trajectory of his life against the changing landscapes of two vastly different countries. As a boy in Jaffna, Dr Puvanendran found imaginative ways to fill his time. He recounts with great relish the carefree pranks, adventures and school experiences. Woven into the evocation of these simple pleasures are also sobering glimpses of the darker periods in Ceylon’s history. After attending medical college in Colombo, Dr Puvanendran stayed in Ceylon to work before accepting a position at Outram Road General Hospital, now Singapore General Hospital, in 1971. As the narrative unfolds, we read about the roots of his interest in neurology, the highs and lows of his career, the doctors who inspired him and the most memorable medical cases from his fifty years of practice. Some of these intriguing cases include sleep-related crimes, for which he has testified in court as a local pioneer in sleep medicine. Dr Puvanendran’s story takes us through the old world of Ceylon and into the heady post-independence days of Majulah Singapura (“Onward Singapore”, as the national anthem proclaims), offering along the way a successful doctor’s take on the study and practice of medicine.

Download or read book Jiwa Singapura written by Geraldine Song and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Singa Pura Pura written by Nazry Bahrawi and published by Ethos Books. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a future of electronic doas and AI psychotherapists, sense-activated communion with forests and a portal to realms undersea, to a reimagined origin and afterlife—editor and translator Nazry Bahrawi brings together an exciting selection of never-before translated and new Malay spec-fic stories by established and emerging writers from Singapore. Especially in an anglophone-dominated genre, very little of Malay speculative fiction from Singapore is known to readers here and beyond. Yet contemporary Bahasa literature here is steeped in spec-fic writing that can account as a literary movement (aliran)—and unmistakably draws from the minority Malay experience in a city obsessed with progress.

Download or read book The Lagoon of Desire written by William Fisher Alder and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Singapura written by Ray Wigley Bsc and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three written by Krishna Udayasankar and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on the founding legend of the island of Singapore, also known as Singapura or the Lion City, 3 is an engrossing tale - told in an exquisitely rich voice - of love, self-realization and adventure on the high seas."--Back cover.

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