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Earlier, in 1956, Sambanthan led the MIC delegation in the negotiations between the Alliance parties in drawing up a memorandum to be presented to the Reid Commission. Sambanthan was a pragmatic negotiator and worked hard to secure the interests of the Indian community, while at the same time being sensitive to the broader interests of the ...
← 1955 1954 1953 1956 in Singapore → 1957 1958 1959 Decades: 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s See also: Other events of 1956 Timeline of Singaporean history The following lists events that happened during 1956 in Colony of Singapore. Incumbents Governor: Sir Robert Brown Black Chief Minister: David Marshall (until June 7) Lim Yew Hock (from June 8) Chief Secretary: Sir William Goode Events ...
The Alliance Party (Malay: Parti Perikatan) was a political coalition in Malaysia.The Alliance Party, whose membership comprised United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) and Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC), was formally registered as a political organisation on 30 October 1957.
He participated in the 1956 London Merdeka negotiations as a member of the Malayan delegation. He spent long nights going over all the memos and the draft constitution with Tunku Abdul Rahman and Tan Tong Hye of the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) in his capacity as the sultan of Perak's envoy. [1]
The effort for independence was spearheaded by Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj, the first Prime Minister of Malaysia, who led a delegation of ministers and political leaders of Malaya in negotiations with the British in London for Merdeka, or independence along with the first president of the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) Tun Dato Sri Tan ...
In April 1956, Marshall led a delegation to London to negotiate for complete self-rule in the Merdeka Talks, but the talks fell through due to British concerns about communist influence and unrest and labour strikes from workers and from trade unions which were undermining Singapore's economic stability. Marshall continued to pressure the ...
Lim Yew Hock (Chinese: 林有福; pinyin: Lín Yǒufú; 15 October 1914 – 30 November 1984) was a Singaporean-born Malaysian [2] [3] politician and diplomat who served as Chief Minister of Singapore between 1956 and 1959.
Merdeka Building, the main venue in 1955. The first large-scale Asian–African or Afro–Asian Conference (Indonesian: Konferensi Asia–Afrika), also known as the Bandung Conference, was a meeting of Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent, which took place on 18–24 April 1955 in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. [1]