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AIA Group Limited. AIA Group Limited, [3] often known as AIA ( Chinese: 友邦保險; pinyin: Yǒubāng Bǎoxiǎn; Jyutping: Jau5 bong1 bou2 him2 ), is a Hong Kong-based multinational insurance and finance corporation. It is the largest publicly listed life insurance group in Asia-Pacific. It offers insurance and financial services, writing ...
The concept of a unified East Asia took form based on an Imperial Japanese Army concept that originated with Hachirō Arita, who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1936 to 1940. The Japanese Army said the new Japanese empire was an Asian equivalent of the Monroe Doctrine , [1] especially with the Roosevelt Corollary .
The National Monument commemorating those who died in Malaysia's struggle for freedom, including the Malayan Emergency. The Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation of 1963–66 arose from tensions between Indonesia and the new British backed Federation of Malaysia that was conceived in the aftermath of the Malayan Emergency.
The same day the BMA was installed in Kuala Lumpur. This was followed by the signing of the Malaya surrender document at Kuala Lumpur by Lieutenant-General Teizo Ishiguro, commander of the 29th Army; with Major-General Naoichi Kawahara, Chief of Staff; and Colonel
The Malaysian Communist Party ( MCP) was a merger of the Communist Party of Malaya/Marxist-Leninist (CPM-ML) and the Communist Party of Malaya/Revolutionary Faction (CPM-RF). Both factions split out from the Malayan Communist Party in the 1970s. MCP traced its roots to splinter groups amongst communist guerrillas in southern Thailand in the 1970s.
The AIA Building hostage crisis took place at the AIA (American Insurance Associates) Building in Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 5 August 1975. [1] The Japanese Red Army took more than 50 hostages at the AIA building, which housed several embassies. The hostages included the United States consul and the Swedish chargé d'affaires.
The Communist insurgency in Malaysia, also known as the Second Malayan Emergency ( Malay: Perang insurgensi melawan pengganas komunis or Darurat Kedua ), was an armed conflict which occurred in Malaysia from 1968 to 1989, between the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) and Malaysian federal security forces. Following the end of the Malayan Emergency ...
4 September – WW2: Japanese forces in Malaya surrendered to the Allies at Penang, signing Penang surrender document on HMS Nelson. 12 September – British Military Administration (BMA) was installed in Kuala Lumpur. 17 October – Parti Kebangsaan Melayu Malaya was established. Late 1945 – Angkatan Wanita Sedar (AWAS) was established.