KUALA LUMPUR: Sultan of Perak Sultan Nazrin Shah on Tuesday (Aug 16) graced the opening of the ‘Solo Artbeat of Halimah Mohd Said’ exhibition held at The Royal Selangor Golf Club here.
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Colonialism in The Malay Archipelago: Civilisational Encounters presents fresh perspectives on colonial incursions into the Nusantara region seen from the lens of the region’s scholars and researchers. They question motives and debunk biases in colonial and post-colonial narratives where native societies and indigenous peoples are depicted as inferior and in need of foreign intervention. Deliberately underplayed in these accounts are the selfish motives of Western imperialists and their agents including the colonial administrations and trading companies they established. Political and economic rivalry amongst them in Europe was the real driving force behind the colonial policies and strategies executed by Portugal, Spain, Holland and Great Britain that saw the expansion of territory and dominance in faraway places in their bid for “gold, God and glory” – the three civilisational motives of Christian Europe. The book’s focus as articulately described
Meeting Tun Salleh Abas Salleh was part of the original committees which deliberated on the Rukun Negara’s objectives. – Bernamapix
ON an afternoon in September 2020 in the pouring rain, I made a special trip to interview Tun Dr Mohamed Salleh Abas at his Kuala Lumpur home in Wangsa Maju.
His daughter Azlina had kindly set up my appointment with her father as part of a series of interviews I was conducting in my work on national unity.
As a member of Team Ahli Pemikir (TAP) of Kementerian Perpaduan (Ministry of National Unity) headed by Professor Shamsul Amri Baharuddin, I was meeting with the personalities who were directly involved in the formulation of the Rukun Negara.