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  • In British Malaya, a Queen's Scholar was a holder of one of various scholarships awarded by the Government of the Straits Settlements to further their...
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    Kwa Geok Choo (category Queen's Scholars (British Malaya and Singapore))
    was a Queen's Scholar of Malaya. According to Lee Kuan Yew's memoirs, by 1939, Kwa and Lee were both top students in Raffles, often coming first and second...
    19 KB (1,777 words) - 12:33, 26 May 2024
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    Wu Lien-teh (category Queen's Scholars (British Malaya and Singapore))
    China, and worked as a goldsmith. Wu's mother's was of Hakka heritage and was a second-generation Peranakan born in Malaya. Wu had four brothers and six...
    28 KB (2,847 words) - 23:37, 16 July 2024
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    resulting in Singapore's merger with the Federation of Malaya to form Malaysia in 1963. However, social unrest, racial tensions, and political differences...
    110 KB (12,374 words) - 23:54, 28 August 2024
  • Edmund W. Barker (category Queen's Scholars (British Malaya and Singapore))
    1920 – 12 April 2001) was a Singaporean politician and lawyer who authored the Proclamation of Singapore. A member of the governing People's Action Party...
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    consisting of Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak, and Singapore. The date was to coincide with the independence day of Malaya and the British giving self-rule...
    205 KB (22,909 words) - 07:16, 28 August 2024
  • Quarterly Literary Review Singapore Queen Elizabeth Walk Queen Street, Singapore Queen's Scholar (British Malaya and Singapore) Queenstown Constituency...
    384 KB (47,435 words) - 14:23, 29 August 2024
  • Lim Boon Keng (category Queen's Scholars (British Malaya and Singapore))
    first immigrated to Penang, Malaya in 1839, where he married a Straits-born Chinese woman. Lim Mah Peng later moved to Singapore where his only son, Lim Thean...
    12 KB (1,383 words) - 02:39, 27 August 2024
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    Thora Oehlers (category Queen's Scholars (British Malaya and Singapore))
    Institution, a bright and athletic young woman, when she became "the first Eurasian girl scholar in Singapore" to win a Queen's Scholarship in 1933, for...
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  • Wong Lin Ken (category Queen's Scholars (British Malaya and Singapore))
    School in Balik Pulau and Penang Free School. He later won a Government Bursary to study at the University of Malaya and a Queen's Scholar to study at the University...
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    British Malaya between communist fighters of the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA) and the military forces of the Federation of Malaya, British...
    96 KB (10,280 words) - 23:34, 29 August 2024
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    Maggie Lim (category Queen's Scholars (British Malaya and Singapore))
    of Two Queen's Scholars". The Straits Times. 30 January 1937. p. 13. Retrieved 8 November 2020 – via NewspaperSG. "A Brilliant Scholar". Malaya Tribune...
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    Ahmad Mohamed Ibrahim (category Queen's Scholars (British Malaya and Singapore))
    School), Raffles Institution, and Raffles College (now the National University of Singapore). In 1936, he received the Queen's Scholarship (now the President's...
    7 KB (494 words) - 21:01, 25 August 2024
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    British, on their part, were prepared to embark on a program of gradually increasing self-governance for Singapore and Malaya, although the British wanted...
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    Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser. Singapore. 3 November 1926. Retrieved 19 April 2024. "SUCCESSFUL QUEEN'S SCHOLAR". Pinang Gazette and...
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    school, the first such feature in any Catholic school in Malaya (Singapore was part of Malaya at that time). After the Second World War, operation of the...
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    Song Ong Siang (category Queen's Scholars (British Malaya and Singapore))
    becoming the only Chinese Queen's Scholar to read law in England. He was an outstanding scholar at the Middle Temple and Downing College in Cambridge...
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    circulating from 1876 to 1895 for locals in Malaya. It was published in Jawi script and produced in Singapore as a main trading hub in the region. Jawi...
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    overthrow the British Raj in colonial India, with Japanese assistance. Many Indian soldiers and civilians were recruited in Singapore and Malaya to join the...
    94 KB (8,644 words) - 16:53, 23 August 2024
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    C. Northcote Parkinson (category Queen's Royal Regiment officers)
    Bahru to serve both Singapore and Malaya. His efforts were unsuccessful and the two campuses were established in 1959. The Singapore campus later became...
    53 KB (7,350 words) - 06:00, 27 July 2024
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