Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Malaysia Forever: an alternate history @malforwb.bsky.social · 21m

[22/10/65]* Tunku Abdul Rahman is recovering well from his illness, though it will likely be a week or two before he can be discharged from the General Hospital in Kuala Lumpur.

Malaysia Forever: an alternate history @malforwb.bsky.social · 51m

[22/10/65] Work on the bitumen track at the Merdeka Stadium for the SEAP Games has been delayed by heavy rain over the past week and a half.

Malaysia Forever: an alternate history @malforwb.bsky.social · 1h

[22/10/65] Hundreds of forged identity cards are now known to be circulating in Singapore. More than three hundred blank forged cards were seized from a house on Jalan Hwi Yoh on 16 July.

Malaysia Forever: an alternate history @malforwb.bsky.social · 1h

[22/10/65] A flour lorry collided head-on with a bus at the junction of Tiong Bahru Road and Henderson Road in Singapore this afternoon, leaving 23 injured.

Malaysia Forever: an alternate history @malforwb.bsky.social · 2h

[22/10/65] Straits tin today underwent a $5.875 correction to close at $719.375 a picul.

Malaysia Forever: an alternate history @malforwb.bsky.social · 2h

[22/10/65] Party Negara leader Garieb Abdul Raof has resigned from the party, citing his disillusionment with “communal struggle.”

Malaysia Forever: an alternate history @malforwb.bsky.social · 3h

[22/10/65] The Registrar of Trade Unions has directed the Singapore Catering Services Staff and Workers’ Trade Union to terminate the membership of workers in the bowling section of Jackie’s Bowl.

Malaysia Forever: an alternate history @malforwb.bsky.social · 4h

[22/10/65] A peon in Ipoh went to the police station to report the theft of the front wheel of his bicycle recently and returned with the police 15 minutes later to find out the back wheel had also been stolen.

Malaysia Forever: an alternate history @malforwb.bsky.social · 4h

[22/10/65] Antara claims that three “subversive organisations controlled from Singapore and Kuala Lumpur” have been smashed in Rhio.

Malaysia Forever: an alternate history @malforwb.bsky.social · 5h

[22/10/65] The Singapore Livestock Corporation has claimed responsibility for an advertisement in six newspapers yesterday announcing that the retail price of mutton in the State would be lowered from $1.40 to $1 a pound, citing a fall in the prices of live Australian sheep.

Malaysia Forever: an alternate history @malforwb.bsky.social · 6h

[22/10/65] Singapore Health Minister Yong Nyuk Lin has confirmed that a General Hospital will be built on the island within the next five years.

Malaysia Forever: an alternate history @malforwb.bsky.social · 8h

[22/10/65] A woman was found murdered near the entrance to the University of Singapore on Cluny Road this morning. A man has surrendered himself to the Bukit Timah police station with a bloodstained knife.

Malaysia Forever: an alternate history @malforwb.bsky.social · 8h

[22/10/65] The Malaya Merdeka today called for UMNO leaders to act against seven youths who recently wrecked the office of the paper’s editor, MP Othman Abdullah (All. - Hilir Perak), in Chenderong Balai.

Malaysia Forever: an alternate history @malforwb.bsky.social · 9h

[22/10/65]* Singapore Culture Minister S. Rajaratnam has demanded that UMNO leaders undertake to avoid comments with racial overtones if Premier Lee is to tone down his rhetoric, pointing to remarks made by Tun Razak calling for the Singapore UMNO Youth to remain “on the alert.”

Malaysia Forever: an alternate history @malforwb.bsky.social · 9h

[22/10/65] Minister for Sarawak Affairs Dato Temenggong Jugah has decided to suspend plans to set up an Iban-Murut guerrilla force to fight Indonesian terrorists in Borneo due to recent developments across the border.

Malaysia Forever: an alternate history @malforwb.bsky.social · 10h

[22/10/65]* Tun Yusof Ishak was given a boisterous welcome to the University of Singapore’s Raffles Hall when he visited in his capacity as Chancellor last night. https://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/photographs/record-details/c44b42d2-1161-11e3-83d5-0050568939ad

Malaysia Forever: an alternate history @malforwb.bsky.social · 11h

[22/10/65] A letter addressed to the SOMKHPBKJCSSDPMWDTB in Teluk Anson was recently successfully delivered to the Sharikat Orang² Melayu Kerajaan Hilir Perak Bekerjasama² Kerana Jimat Chermat Serta Simpanan Dan Pinjam Meninjam Wang Dengan Tanggongan Berhad.

Malaysia Forever: an alternate history @malforwb.bsky.social · 21h

[21/10/65] History has been made in London with the takeover of Sungei Kinta Dredging by Malaysian shareholders.

Malaysia Forever: an alternate history @malforwb.bsky.social · 22h

[21/10/65] Premier Lee has called for a “build-up of Afro-Asian opinion” even outside Africa and Asia.

Malaysia Forever: an alternate history @malforwb.bsky.social · 23h

[21/10/65]* Minister of Civil Defence Dato Donald Stephens has revealed that the corps may have its name changed to the Protection of Civil Population Corps to avoid the impression that the organisation is an exclusively wartime one.

Malaysia Forever: an alternate history @malforwb.bsky.social · 23h

[21/10/65] Singapore police have reminded the public that the firing of crackers will still be banned at the Botanic Gardens, the Padang, the Istana Negara, parks, swimming pools, and places of worship despite the lifting of the ban for Deepavali on Saturday (23 Oct).

Malaysia Forever: an alternate history @malforwb.bsky.social · 1d

[21/10/65]* Tunku Abdul Rahman’s illness has been identified as shingles. His condition is expected to yield to treatment “in a matter of days.”

Malaysia Forever: an alternate history @malforwb.bsky.social · 1d

[21/10/65] Afro-Asian delegates attending the International Labour Seminar in Singapore have cabled British Prime Minister Harold Wilson to protest the arrest of trade union leaders in Aden.

Malaysia Forever: an alternate history @malforwb.bsky.social · 1d

[21/10/65] Straits tin jumped $10.25 to $725.25 a picul today.

Malaysia Forever: an alternate history @malforwb.bsky.social · 1d

[21/10/65] Tan Eng Seng, father of MP Tan Toh Hong (All. - Bukit Bintang), was killed when his car crashed into a lorry on Cheras Road this afternoon.