Walk through any Malaysian supermarket and you'll find palm oil in everything from cooking oil to margarine, soap to cosmetics. Yet few shoppers pause to consider where this ubiqui

The sound people remember from that morning isn't the speech. It's the shouting.
On 31 August 1957, inside a stadium built in Kuala Lumpur for the occasion, Tunku Abdul Rahman read

At half past nine on the morning of 31 August 1957, a newly built stadium in Kuala Lumpur went quiet. Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj stepped to the microphone and read out the pro