Malayan Monitor was an anti-colonial and anti-imperialist newsletter published in Britain which distributed information on the Malayan independence movement during the Malayan Emergency. It was edited by Lim Hong Bee, a sympathiser of the Malayan National Liberation Army who lived in London.
According to historians Huw Bennett and Peter Romijn, the British Colonial Office was successful in countering many of the stories published in Malayan Monitor.
Archives
Archived copies of Malayan Monitor can be found in the British National Archives in Kew.
See also
References
- Linstrum, Erik (2023). Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-19-757203-0.
- Hack, Karl (2022). The Malayan Emergency: Revolution and Counterinsurgency at the End of Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 409.
- Bennett, Huw; Romijn, Peter (2022). Luttikhuis, Bart; Brocades Zaalberg, Thijs (eds.). Empire's Violent End: Comparing Dutch, British, and French Wars of Decolonization, 1945–1962. Cornell University Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-1501764141.
- "Political developments: Lim Hong Bee, editor of the Malayan Monitor". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 1 August 2023.