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Adult Suffrage Comes to Penang and Malaysia, 1951
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Voter registration under way.The Report on the Introduction of Elections in the Municipality of George Town, Penang (Kuala Lumpur: Government Press, 1951)...
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Malaysia The Welfare State?
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EVER SINCE THE Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) muktamar in June, which had as its theme the “welfare state” policy concept, there has been a scram...
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