Mr Waterworth was an 18-year-old able seaman when he was depth-charged aboard HMS Strongbow at Penang, in the Strait of Malacca, off Malaya. |
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Many involved smaller boats, such as tugs, barges and fishing boats, in the Malacca Straits and Indonesian waters. |
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The Malacca Strait, a busy sealane with more than 50,000 commercial ships plying it annually, is also a hotbed for pirates. |
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However, the train does not stop at Malacca town as it does not have a station. |
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And it could under certain circumstances lead to unilateral action to suppress piracy and terrorism in the Malacca Strait. |
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The dhow was sinking around 40 miles from land between Sumatra and Malaysia in the Malacca Strait. |
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Gambier was an extract made from the leaves and twigs of a vine that grew in India and the Malacca Islands, Uncaria gambir. |
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Starting from Taiwan, he traversed the Indian Ocean after passing through the Strait of Malacca. |
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The IMB reported that between January and March this year, the Malacca Straits have seen seven piracy attacks. |
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Looking forward to a few days sailing his yacht, moored off the island of Phuket, Crasnianski set sail into the Straits of Malacca on Christmas Day. |
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To the north-west lie the Malacca Straits, five hundred miles of international water, bordered by Malaysia to the north and Indonesia to the south, which are barely policed. |
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It also joined Malaysia in opposing an American plan to tighten security in the vital Malacca Straits shipping lanes, which might have meant stationing US troops nearby. |
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Srivijaya especially became the dominant maritime power for more than 5 centuries, controlling both Strait of Malacca and Sunda Strait. |
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The major choke points include Bab el Mandeb, Strait of Hormuz, the Lombok Strait, the Strait of Malacca and the Palk Strait. |
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The Port of Singapore is the busiest port in the Indian Ocean, located in the Strait of Malacca where it meets the Pacific. |
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The archipelagic empires, the Sultanate of Malacca and later the Sultanate of Johor, controlled the southern areas. |
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Columbus made a fourth voyage nominally in search of the Strait of Malacca to the Indian Ocean. |
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In September, after arriving at Malacca, the expedition fell victim to a conspiracy ending in retreat. |
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He had been indentured by Magellan in 1511 after the colonization of Malacca, and had accompanied him through later adventures. |
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In 1510, Afonso de Albuquerque conquered Goa in India, Ormuz in the Persian Strait, and Malacca. |
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Afonso de Albuquerque set sail in April 1511 from Goa to Malacca with a force of 1,200 men and seventeen or eighteen ships. |
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The treasure fleet sailed to Champa, Java, Malacca, Aru, Semudera, Lambri, Ceylon, Qiulon, and Calicut. |
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The fleet made stops at Champa, Java, Malacca, Semudera, Ceylon, Quilon, Cochin, and Calicut. |
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It's likely that the first few destinations were Malacca and the three Sumatran states of Lambri, Aru, and Semudera. |
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Ma Huan recorded that the various detached ships reassembled in Malacca to wait for favorable winds before continuing their return. |
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When his fleet first arrived in Malacca, there was already a sizable Chinese community. |
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Following Zheng He's arrival, the sultan and sultana of Malacca visited China at the head of over 540 of their subjects, bearing ample tribute. |
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In the 1421 expedition, he visited Malacca, Aru, Sumatra, Trincomalee, Ceylon, Kochi, Calicut, Zufar and Hormuz. |
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In 1511, Afonso de Albuquerque conquered Malacca for Portugal, then the center of Asian trade. |
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East of Malacca, Albuquerque sent several diplomatic and exploratory missions, including to the Moluccas. |
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The main Portuguese factories were in Goa, Malacca, Ormuz, Ternate, and Macau. |
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In September 1509, Sequeira tried to establish contact with the Sultan of Malacca but failed, leaving behind 19 Portuguese prisoners. |
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He then sailed to Malacca against orders and despite the protest of Diogo Mendes, who claimed command of the expedition. |
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After a false start towards the Red Sea, they sailed to the Strait of Malacca. |
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He was one of the Portuguese who had been arrested in Malacca, having gathered knowledge about the culture of the region. |
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Before the arrival of the first Sultan, Malacca was a fishing village inhabited by local known as Orang Laut. |
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Prominent Malaysian artist Syed Thajudeen visually depicted the epic tale of the founding of Malacca on canvas. |
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Because of its strategic location, Malacca was an important stopping point for Zheng He's fleet. |
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In April 1511, Alfonso de Albuquerque set sail from Goa to Malacca with a force of some 1200 men and seventeen or eighteen ships. |
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It soon became clear that Portuguese control of Malacca did not also mean they controlled Asian trade centred there. |
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In 1641, the Dutch defeated the Portuguese in an effort to capture Malacca, with the help of the Sultan of Johore. |
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In June 2012, the Macau Gallery Malacca was opened at Peringgit, Malacca under the government of Macau. |
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Under its terms, the Netherlands ceded Malacca and their bases in India to the British, and recognized the British claim to Singapore. |
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In the centre of Malacca, Malaysia, the Stadthuys Building and Christ Church still stand as a reminder of Dutch occupation. |
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During the 18th century, the British and the Dutch controlled opposite sides of the Straits of Malacca. |
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Piracy in the Strait of Malacca has been a cause of concern for all three countries. |
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Trading relations were established with Malacca in the 15th century, with cloth, ambergris and porcelain being the main commodities of the trade. |
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Its closest wild relative is the bearded pig of Malacca and surrounding islands. |
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Ten years later, Afonso de Albuquerque conquered Goa in India, Muscat and Ormuz in the Persian Strait, and Malacca, now a state in Malaysia. |
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The Dutch then still held some key positions in the European trade with Asia, such as the Cape Colony, Ceylon and Malacca. |
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Java's contact with the European colonial powers began in 1522 with a treaty between the Sunda kingdom and the Portuguese in Malacca. |
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After its failure the Portuguese presence was confined to Malacca, and to the eastern islands. |
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Foreign traders were starting to use new routes such as Malacca and Sunda Strait due to the development of maritime Southeast Asia. |
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During the 1450s, Shari'ful Hashem Syed Abu Bakr, an Arab born in Johor, arrived in Sulu from Malacca. |
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The Portuguese king commissioned his subjects to get good pilots that could guide them beyond the seas of China and Malacca. |
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In 1511, Malacca, then the centre of Asian trade, was conquered for Portugal by Afonso de Albuquerque. |
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From 1539, Pinto remained in Malacca under Pedro de Faria, the newly appointed captain of Malacca. |
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He then left for the Red Sea for negotiations, and in 1615 sailed to the Straits of Malacca. |
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Oceania was originally conceived as the lands of the Pacific Ocean, stretching from the Strait of Malacca to the coast of the Americas. |
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The Johor Sultanate was the successor of the Malacca Sultanate, both of which had their own codes of law. |
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The Straits Settlements now had two Recorders, one for Prince of Wales' Island, the other for Singapore and Malacca. |
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There were two divisions of the court, one at Singapore and Malacca and the other at Penang. |
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When Sultan Muhammad Shah ascended to the throne of Malacca in 1276 he initiated a process of adapting the Arabic alphabet to Melayu. |
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What was the name given to the former British crown colony which included the likes of Penang, Malacca and Singapore? |
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Indians in Malacca are the Tamil people in which many of them used to work at the rubber plantation. |
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They generally reside in rural settlements, the edge of the woods and along the coast facing Malacca Strait. |
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From 1826 to 1946, Malacca was under the rule of the British, first by the British East India Company and then as a Crown Colony. |
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In 1963, Malaysia was formed with the merger of Malaya with Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore, and Malacca became part of it. |
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On 3 May 2017, the state government declared that the English name for the state is Melaka from the previous commonly used Malacca. |
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With the exception of some of its small hills, Malacca is generally a lowland area with average elevation below 50 meters above sea level. |
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The Malacca River roughly runs through the center line of the state from north to south. |
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The offshore Besar Island, Upeh Island and Undan Island are part of Malacca which are accessible by jetty from Malacca mainland. |
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Malacca has several beaches edged with palm trees which has brought a number of resorts along the coast. |
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The climate of Malacca is hot and humid throughout the year with rainfall occurring mostly between October and March. |
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As the center of the all important spice trade, Malacca attracted many colonial powers to engage wars to control it. |
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While outside Malacca City, industrial areas include Alor Gajah and Sungai Udang. |
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Culture in Malacca began around 15th century in which various ethnic customs and traditions blended perfectly. |
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Malacca has small communities of Kristang, Dutch Eurasian and Temuan people. |
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Malay community in Malacca is generally divided into two, which are the Temenggong custom and the Pepatih custom. |
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The remaining traditional Malay village in Malacca City is the Morten Village. |
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The Peranakan people in Malacca show unique features, such as furniture, porcelain, crockery, style and food. |
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Malaysian is the official language of Malacca and is used in the government and public sectors. |
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The Orang Asli languages spoken within Malacca are mostly speakers of the Temuan language. |
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Malacca is home to several football stadiums, such as Hang Jebat Stadium, Hang Tuah Stadium and Tun Fatimah Stadium. |
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There is also a motorsport racetrack in Ayer Keroh, the Malacca International Motorsport Circuit. |
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Malacca also has a football team known as Melaka United representing Malacca in the Malaysian football league. |
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A centre for juvenile convicts, Henry Gurney Prisoners School, is in Telok Mas, Malacca. |
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The very first library in Malacca was the Khutub Khanah Malacca, established in 1881 and was located at the Stadthuys. |
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In 1975, the Malacca Public Library Corporation was enacted to establish the Malacca Public Library. |
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Malacca houses a number of government and private hospitals and health clinics, as well as hundreds of private clinics. |
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Raw water is supplied from the Malacca River, Kesang River and Gerisik River. |
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Malacca has also hot springs, namely Gadek Hot Spring and Jasin Hot Spring. |
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Public squares in Malacca are 1Malaysia Square, Alor Gajah Square, Ayer Keroh Square and Jasin Square. |
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In 1511, Afonso de Albuquerque conquered Malacca for Portugal, then the centre of Asian trade. |
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Malacca is also accessible by road from Kuala Lumpur International Airport located in the neighboring state of Selangor. |
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However, in June 2015 the Malacca State Government decided to revive the project. |
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Daily ferries run from Malacca to the Indonesian cities of Bengkalis, Dumai and Pekanbaru departing from Harbour Master's Jetty. |
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Two existing container ports in Malacca are the Port of Kuala Sungai Linggi and Port of Tanjung Bruas. |
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The Malacca Sentral bus station, combined with taxi terminal, serves cities around Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore. |
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The Panorama Malacca bus is the public bus serving Malacca City and major landmarks. |
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In the sequence of a failed plot to destroy the expedition, Fernandes was among nineteen Portuguese that stood arrested in Malacca. |
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Under this protection, Malacca flourished, becoming one of Ayutthaya's great foes until the capture of Malacca by the Portuguese. |
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On his first visit, he interviewed the Portuguese and the far more knowledgeable Malay sailors in Malacca. |
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In August 1511 on behalf of the king of Portugal, Afonso de Albuquerque conquered Malacca, which at the time was the hub of Asian trade. |
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From then on, the Portuguese were infrequent visitors to the islands preferring to buy their nutmeg from traders in Malacca. |
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In August 1511, Afonso de Albuquerque conquered Malacca, which at the time was the hub of Asian trade, on behalf of the king of Portugal. |
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He participated under the command of Afonso de Albuquerque in the conquest of Ormus in 1507 and Malacca in 1511, where he got injured. |
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His 1512 voyage was the first known European sailing east past Malacca through modern Indonesia and the East Indies. |
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In April 1511 Albuquerque sailed to Malacca in Malaysia, the largest spice market of the period. |
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The Malacca peninsula became the strategic base for Portuguese trade expansion with China and Southeast Asia. |
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To make up for this loss, the Portuguese captured and commandeered five ships from Gujarat that were sailing between Malacca and Sumatra. |
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Ming officials sent memorials to the throne that condemned the Portuguese conquest of Malacca and advocated for the rejection of their embassy. |
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The Portuguese managed to retreat and made their way to Malacca in October. |
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Ming officials were notified of the Portuguese conquest of Malacca by the Sultan, and they were displeased about it. |
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Several days passed by until Duarte Coelho eventually decided to depart for Malacca. |
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Back on board but lacking enough water, de Mello decided to retreat and return to Malacca. |
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Another important Malacca trader was Curia de Raja who also hailed from Luzon. |
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In February 2013, the Malacca Gallery in Jakarta, Indonesia was officiated by Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo and Malacca Chief Minister Mohd Ali Rustam. |
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Currently, there are three dams located in Malacca supplying its residents with water, which are Durian Tunggal Dam in Alor Gajah, Jus Dam and Asahan Dam in Jasin. |
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There were railway tracks from Pulau Sebang to Malacca City before World War II, but these were dismantled by the Japanese for the construction of the Burmese Death Railway. |
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Jan Huyghen van Linschoten had told them not to pass through the Malacca Strait, which was controlled by the Portuguese, but through Sunda Strait. |
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Because of that incident, Queen Elizabeth I of England decided to send an emissary to the Sultan of Aceh, asking permission to enter Malacca Strait. |
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Regular boat services to Big Island depart from mainland Malacca in Umbai. |
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However, the strait's narrowness, shallowness, and lack of accurate charting makes it unsuitable for many modern large ships, most of which use the Strait of Malacca instead. |
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Malacca adopted a campaign slogan of Don't Mess with Malacca since 2014 to reduce littering in the state after the local authorities found that cleanliness levels had dropped. |
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Built in 1954, Hang Tuah Stadium is the oldest stadium in Malacca. |
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Daily water consumption for Malacca is 500 million litres and each resident consumes 220 litres per day, higher than the national average of 180 litres per day. |
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Ayutthaya launched several abortive conquests against Malacca which was diplomatically and economically fortified by the military support of Ming China. |
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On 24 June 1824 Singapore and Malacca were formally transferred to the East India Company's administration by the Transfer of Singapore to East India Company, etc. |
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Her tributaries were Patani, Pahang, Perak, Kedah and Malacca. |
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In 1511, immediately after having conquered Malacca, the Portuguese sent a diplomatic mission headed by Duarte Fernandes to the court of King Ramathibodi II of Ayutthaya. |
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Ayer Keroh also houses the Malacca International Bowling Centre. |
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The location of medical institutions are located all over the state of Malacca, either in urban or rural areas, providing uniform and equitable healthcare to the residents. |
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In April 2015, the Malacca State Government decided to build the MYR300 million Malacca Information Centre which will be located in Zhuhai, Guangdong. |
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The Malacca High School is one of the premier schools in Malaysia and is the second oldest recorded school in the country after Penang Free School in Penang. |
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The centralised port of exchange of Asian wealth had now gone, as was a Malay state to police the Straits of Malacca that made it safe for commercial traffic. |
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During Afonso's absence from Malacca, Portuguese who opposed the taking of Goa had waived its possession, even writing to the King that it would be best to let it go. |
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During Jorge de Albuquerque's second tour of duty, he defeated Mahmud Shah of Malacca at Bintan in 1524, forcing the latter to flee, this time to the Malay Peninsula. |
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On 20 November 1511 Afonso sailed from Malacca to the coast of Malabar on the old Flor de la mar carrack that had served to support the conquest of Malacca. |
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Diogo Mendes de Vasconcelos was compelled to accompany him with the reinforcements for Malacca and about 300 Malabari reinforcements from Cannanore. |
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Malacca is also a popular place for health care and medical tourism for Indonesian people from Sumatra due to its close proximity to the state, followed by Singapore. |
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After the conquest of Malacca in 1511, not only did the Portuguese monopolize the European spice trade, but they also met and traded avidly with Chinese merchants. |
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This prompted Andrade to speed up the course of his mission while stalled in Malacca and debate with his crew on whether to go to China or Bengal. |
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Chinese officials became even more cautious in dealing with the Portuguese, since the deposed King of Malacca had been a loyal tributary to the imperial Ming court. |
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Besides exploring Fujian, Andrade sent one of his captains named Jorge de Mascarenhas to explore the Ryukyu Islands after he heard of their beauty while stationed in Malacca. |
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Two survivors of this embassy were still alive around 1536, when they sent letters to Malacca and Goa detailing plans for how the Portuguese could capture Canton by force. |
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New ships arrived from Portugal, which were intended for the nobleman Diogo Mendes de Vasconcelos at Malacca, who had been given a rival command of the region. |
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He met the ruler of Malacca and stayed as a guest for three days. |
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The Ming court threatened to expel Portuguese traders from China after receiving news that the Malacca Sultanate, a Ming tributary, had been invaded by the Portuguese. |
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The Taizong Shilu recorded Malacca, Java, Champa, Semudera, Aru, Cochin, Calicut, Lambri, Pahang, Kelantan, Jiayile, Ormuz, Bila, Maldives, and Sunla for this voyage. |
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As the sultanate was a tributary of the Ming dynasty, the emperor demanded that the Portuguese withdraw from Malacca and restore the Malay sultan to the throne. |
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The Portuguese had conquered the city state of Malacca in the early 16th century and their influence was most strongly felt in Maluku and other parts of eastern Indonesia. |
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The port of Malacca became then the strategic base for Portuguese trade expansion with China and Southeast Asia, under the Portuguese rule in India with its capital at Goa. |
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As a final condition, Gama secured from John III of Portugal the commitment to appoint all his sons successively as Portuguese captains of Malacca. |
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There are international ferry services between across the Strait of Malacca between Sumatra and Malaysia, and between Singapore and nearby Indonesian islands, such as Batam. |
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Malacca is divided into 3 districts and 4 local authorities. |
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Despite being located in a land without any significant natural resources, the economy of Malacca dates back more than 500 years, due to its strategic location. |
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Letters also record the martyr's death of a brother in Malacca. |
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