I was on a liquor-drenched party boat that was sailing in the Strait of Malacca, one of the busiest and most important shipping lanes in the world today, when I saw its namesake in the distance. From ...

Bygone wonder: A sketch of Mendam Berahi berthing at a port during the height of the Malacca Sultanate. MELAKA: Back in the 1400s, it sailed as far as Rome and China during the heyday of the Malacca ...

"Encore Melaka", an indoor theme production, is performed in Malacca of Malaysia July 7, 2018. A combination of song, dance and story-telling, the show, directed by Chinese Wang Chaoge, features the ...

The Malacca Malay Sultanate began in 1278 and not in the 1400s, as discovered by a research team appointed by the Melaka government. Chief Minister Mohd Ali Rustam said the year 1278 was chosen based ...

MALACCA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - A recent discovery might provide the proof that early settlers in Malacca, including the Malay Sultanate era, were large in structure. Historian Mohd Fuad ...

MALACCA: The state government has expressed interest in the findings of a Universiti Sains Malaysia academic that the Malay Sultanate here existed 140 years before Parameswara's reign in 1402. However ...

MELAKA, April 2 – A total 30 pieces of wood believed from a merchant ship in the time of the Malacca Sultanate were found recently during an archaeological dig at Pulau Melaka. State Tourism, Heritage ...

The Strait of Malacca has once again drifted into geopolitical conversation. As tensions simmer around the Strait of Hormuz, a fresh United States-Indonesia defence arrangement has prompted ...