Area Handbook for Malaysia and SingaporeU.S. Government Printing Office, 1965 - 745 pages |
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aboriginal activities agricultural areas associated Bajau Bornean British Brunei centers century ceremonies China Chinese schools Communist Conference of Rulers Constitution Council courts culture dialect Dusun economic English established estates ethnic groups Federation of Malaya Hospital household Iban immigrants important Indian indigenous Indonesian industry influence Islamic Jakun Jesselton Johore kampong Kedah Kelantan Kuala Lumpur Kuching Land Dayak language legislative live longhouse mainly major Malacca Malay Malaya and Singapore Malaysia marriage Melanau ment million Ministry Moslem Murut Negri Sembilan northern Borneo organizations Pahang pantun Party Penang Peninsula Perak percent persons political population primary raja religion religious rice ritual rubber rulers rural Sarawak and Sabah secondary schools Selangor Semang Settlements social society Southeast Asia spirits Straits Sultan Supreme Head territories tion trade traditional Trengganu United urban usually village welfare workers
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Page 537 - ... any combination, whether temporary or permanent, formed primarily for the purpose of regulating the relations between workmen and employers or between workmen and workmen, or between employers and employers, or for imposing restrictive conditions on the conduct of any trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade unions...
Page 392 - Clause (1), such restrictions as it deems necessary or expedient in the interest of the security of the Federation or any part thereof, friendly relations with other countries, public order or morality and restrictions designed to protect the privileges of Parliament or of any legislative Assembly or to provide against contempt of court, defamation, or incitement to any offence...
Page 353 - Agong shall be persons who in his opinion have rendered distinguished public service or have achieved distinction in the professions, commerce, industry, agriculture, cultural activities or social service or are representative of racial minorities or are capable of representing the interests of aborigines.
Page 263 - Moon," and the four ministers to the guardian gods of the cardinal points. It is clear that in all these cases the empire was conceived as an image of the heavenly world of stars and gods.
Page 432 - Organization, the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development...
Page 467 - District officers and assistant district officers are assistant collectors of land revenue and deputy registrar of titles in their district. Registration of native title and field registers is done locally by the assistant collectors of land revenue, but dealings in all other forms of title must be registered by the registrar of titles at the state capital.
Page 537 - ... or financing of strikes or lockouts in any trade or industry or the provision of pay or other benefits for its members during a strike or lockout.
Page 51 - Her Majesty's Government have, it need hardly be said, no desire to interfere in the internal affairs of the Malay States...
Page 51 - Her Majesty's Government find it incumbent to employ such influence as they possess with the native princes to rescue, if possible, these fertile and productive countries from the ruin which must befall them if the present disorders continue unchecked.