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,[1] a sympathiser of the Malayan National Liberation Army who lived in London.[2]
According to historians Huw Bennett and Peter Romijn, the British Colonial Office was successful in countering many of the stories published in Malayan Monitor.[3]
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Archived copies of Malayan Monitor can be found in the British National Archives in Kew.[4]
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- ^ 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.