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.

MALACCA: A wooden bed touted as the resting chamber of rulers during the reign of Malacca Sultanate is back to the historic city after some 600 years. A hotelier bought the bed during an auction ...

He grew up in one of the most tumultuous times of the Malacca sultanate. He was a youth when the third Sultan of Malacca, Muhammad Syah, died. Through the cunning plot of the late sultan's Rokan ...

MALACCA: The recent announcement by local historians pushing back the founding of the Malacca Sultanate by over 120 years, has attracted both public support and controversy. While many are in ...

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 ...

In one part of the Southeast Asian epic Sejarah Melayu, the 15 th century Malacca Sultanate receives a lavish gift from the distant emperor of China, then ruled by the Ming Dynasty. The Ming ...

MALACCA - A company which was carrying out a hunt for a multi-billion ringgit treasure belonging to the Malacca Sultanate on Pulau Nangka off the state, has failed to find any as its contract ended.

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Then in 1699 the Malacca Strait’s dominant power, Johor Sultanate, lost its monarch to assassination. With no blood successor to succeed him, Johor’s influence waned and a power vacuum emerged.

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.