Category: The people of Malaysia

Malaysian Indians make up 8 per cent of the total population of Malaysia (21 million) – over one and a half million Indians whose ancestors originated from the different parts […]

The Chinese make up about 27 per cent of the Malaysian population. They are basically urban people, concentrated heavily in towns on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia. The majority […]

The constitutional definition of a Malay is a person who professes the Muslim religion, habitually speaks the Malay language and conforms to Malay custom. The Malays, so the anthropologists and […]