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  2. V. T. Sambanthan - Wikipedia

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    2.5 Merdeka negotiations. 2.6 Working with the Tunku. ... Posts and Telecommunications from April 1956 to December 1971, Minister of Health from 1957 to 1959, ...

  3. 1956 in Singapore - Wikipedia

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    23 April — The first Merdeka talks were held, which failed on 23 May after failing to compromise on internal security arrangements. As a result, David Marshall resigned. [ 2 ]

  4. Tunku Abdul Rahman - Wikipedia

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    Finally on 8 February 1956, Tunku's fifty-third birthday, he and Lennox-Boyd signed the Independence agreement, the Treaty of London, scheduled for August 1957. [3] Tunku and his mission left London on 16 February, had a short break in Cairo and landed in Singapore four days later.

  5. Self-governance of Singapore - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Merdeka - Wikipedia

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    Merdeka Square in Kuala Lumpur.. Tunku Abdul Rahman, later the inaugural Malaysian Prime Minister, declared Malayan independence in 1957 with seven shouts of "Merdeka".The cry is referenced in the Malaysian national holiday, Hari Merdeka, commemorating Malaya's independence on 31 August 1957, and Dataran Merdeka (Independence Square) where the first ceremony raising the flag of Malaya was held ...

  7. 1957 in Malaya - Wikipedia

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    31 August–7 September – The Merdeka Tournament or Pestabola Merdeka was held for the first time after Malayan independence. 1 September – Tuanku Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan was installed as the first Yang di-Pertuan Agong. 2 September – Malaya officially admitted as the 88th United Nations member. October – SMK Assunta was ...

  8. Bandung Conference - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Proclamation of Indonesian Independence - Wikipedia

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    "Nani Wartabone dan Proklamasi Kemerdekaan 23 Januari 1942". Liputan6.com; Raliby, Osman (1953). Documenta Historica: Sedjarah Dokumenter Dari Pertumbuhan dan Perdjuangan Negara Republik Indonesia (in Indonesian). Jakarta: Bulain-Bintag. Reid, Anthony (1974). The Indonesian National Revolution 1945–1950. Melbourne: Longman.