In the Second World War the Japanese army invaded and subsequently occupied Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak, and Singapore for over three years. During this time, ethnic tensions were raised and nationalism grew. Popular support for independence increased after Malaya was reconquered by Allied Forces. Post-war British plans to unite the administration of Malaya under a single crown colony called the Malay
Straits times' & 'Asiaone'
Straits Times
- an English-language broadsheet newspaper based in Singapore, currently owned by the Singapore Press Holdings (SPH).
- was established on July 15, 1845, during British colonial rule
-the country's highest-selling paper in any language, with a daily circulation of 388,500 in August 2006. As of 2008, it has an estimated readership of 1.23 million.
due to high oil prices and domestic pressure
Existence of longstanding American Nuclear threats against North Korea
→ It self direct violation of international non-proliferation regime
(B) Failure to pay attention to conciliatory North Korean gestures
(C) Insistence upon Cold War perception – dualistic and militaristic
(ex) hawk engagement VS nuclear brinkmanship
Korean Peninsula is on the rise. To show more specific figures, the annual average number of earthquakes was only 16 from 1978 to 1996, but it went on increasing to 41 from 1997 to 2010.
In addition to earthquakes, the tsunamis that inflicted severe damage to Southeast Asia and Japan lately must be reckoned. Because of the frequent submarine earthquakes occurring on the coast of the northern isl
president of the Hyosung Group and eldest son of C
hairman Cho Seok-rae, bought a luxury villa on the coast of Newport Beach
near Los Angeles Aug. 2002 for 4.5 million dollars, and a month later transferr
ed ownership rights for the sum of “0” Won to a corporation he himself estab
lished. The corporation in question was created immediately after Cho’s purch
ase.