Podcasts about Kuala Lumpur

Seorang pelajar perempuan berkongsi pengalaman ngeri ketika menyambung pengajian di Kuala Lumpur. Bermula dengan gangguan aneh di hostel, perubahan fizikal yang mendadak, hingga satu malam dia rebah dan dirasuk sesuatu yang hampir meragut nyawanya. Dalam sesi ruqyah, satu suara misteri mengaku dihantar untuk “membunuh”. Apa yang berlaku selepas itu mengubah hidupnya selama-lamanya, termasuk kehilangan memori dan pemergian sahabat yang paling banyak membantunya. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sidney Schutte, ** chef-kok en executive chef op verschillende continenten en wereldburger volgens Michelin, praat met host Petra Possel over zijn culinaire ontwikkeling, de internationale restaurantwereld, zijn ondernemerschap en hoe hij dat allemaal combineert met een gezinsleven (tweeling van vijf) en met zijn zakenpartner en vrouw Gigi van Es. Verschillende zaken van Sydney passeren de revue. Rust Wat in Blaricum (ook wel 'Rust Zacht' genoemd), Spectrum ** in het Waldorf Astoria hotel in Amsterdam, Molina * in Kuala Lumpur, Maleisië, Cocina de Autor * en Loto Robata Grill in Los Cabos, Mexico.Over Rust Wat:Het hoeft voor mij niet alleen maar kaviaar & kreeft te zijn. Relaxed koken, als tegenhanger van Spectrum waar alles perfect móet zijn, kunstwerkjes, alles is doordacht.Kookboekenrecensent Karin van Munster bespreekt vandaag een kookboek over de keuken van Piemonte, Italië dus. Het heet Piemonte, aan tafel met vrienden en familie en is een kookboek van Cristina Baltieri Carossa met haar eigen recepten. Niet langer alleen in haar hoofd maar nu ook op papier.Keukenprins Pieter heeft flink promotie gemaakt en mag als commis Sydney Schutte assisteren bij het opmaken van de door hem meegebrachte kleine gerechten, “klassiekertjes”:conch met custard van bloemkool met kaffirlimoen, crème fraîche en kaviaarpuree van gecaramellisserde aardpeer, octopus, spekbouillon en slakkeneitjes, “een beuker”, zoals Sidney zegt.Karin: "wáánzinnig!"Petra: "daar staan we dan met onze pinda's."Daarnaast heeft de Keukenprins een antipasto uit het boek Piemonte gemaakt. Sidney vraagt om een refill van de kaasfondue... Een stukje puur geluk voor de Keukenprins!Het recept voor deze hartige flan met kaasfondue is te vinden in op onze website. Enne, de wijn vandaag kwam uit Piemonte: 'Derthona' Vino Bianco van Vigneti Massa.Met dank aan onze Culinaire Vriend Kleinste SoepfabriekWil je adverteren in deze podcast? Stuur een mailtje naar:(Media)bureaus: adverteren@bienmedia.nlAdverteerders (direct): adverteren@smakelijkpodcast.nl Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Who listens to The South East Asia? Where? And Why? In the past 12 months, our weekly podcast was downloaded in 116 countries - the most in a calendar year since we launched in 2020. Listeners log on each week from Algeria to Fiji, Germany to Macau, Peru to Sweden, and Turkey to Vietnam. Our top 5 listener markets are the US, Australia, UK, Thailand and Singapore. In this short introduction, Gary and Hannah guide you through some of the reasons why listeners from around the world keep tuning in to our little show written and produced in Kuala Lumpur!

Laughter, mockery or jealousy? Adam, David, Neil and Steve chat the latest in 2026 MotoGP – the championship launch - and then also work through a slew of hot takes sent into the show after the Sepang test. Pic by MotoGP.com Adam's piece on the MotoGP launch in Kuala Lumpur: https://race19.substack.com/p/perspective-motogp-opens-2026-with Thanks to Renthal Street for supporting the podcast. Head to the Renthal website for handlebars, sprockets, chains, and more, using the Fit Your Bike tool. www.renthal.com/road/ Sign up for for exclusive content from the MotoGP and WorldSBK paddocks https://patreon.com/paddockpasspodcast We have merch! Get your t-shirts, caps, hoodies and more here: https://paddockpasspodcast.com/shop

Invité: Jean-Pierre Poulain. Sushis. Rouleaux de printemps. Poulet teriyaki. Phở. Nouille sautées. Les plats dʹorigine asiatique connaissent un succès grandissant en Suisse et un peu partout dans le monde. Quels sont les spécificités de ces nourritures asiatiques? Comment ces plats modifient-ils (ou pas) notre manière de manger? Tribu reçoit Jean-Pierre Poulain, anthropologue, sociologue de lʹalimentation, professeur émérite de l'université de Toulouse. Il est également titulaire de la chaire dʹétudes sur la nourriture, la culture et la santé à la Taylor's University, à Kuala Lumpur, en Malaisie. Il est lʹauteur dʹun "Dictionnaire des cultures alimentaires".

International branch campuses are back in the spotlight with countries including India, Vietnam and Greece opening to foreign institutions for the first time. And with international student flows coming under pressure from government policies, stretched student finances and emerging host countries, transnational education (TNE) and branch campuses offer an effective alternative for reaching overseas students. But while there are many success stories of now well-established branch campuses all over the world, there have also been plenty of failures. There are currently 387 international branch campuses open across 85 countries. A further 73 have opened and then closed, according to research by C-BERT. So, what causes some international branch campuses to flourish while others collapse? To find out, I spoke to Christine Ennew, who served as provost and CEO of the University of Nottingham Malaysia from 2013 to 2016, having been part of the team who travelled to Kuala Lumpur in 2000 to establish this pioneering branch campus. Christine spent five years as pro vice-chancellor at the University of Nottingham and most recently was provost at the University of Warwick until she retired in 2023. We discuss the thinking behind branch campus endeavours, what is needed for sustained success, common criticisms of branch campuses and what impact, if any, the UK government's new international education strategy may have. For more insight on related topics, check out our spotlight guide on how to deliver value for international students.

Recorded live from the Actsplore This Building Influence workshop in Kuala Lumpur, we sat down with Prof Dr Ong Kian Ming and Zalina Jamaluddin to unpack how we can lead with impact -  through intention, curiosity, and the courage to act before you feel “ready.”Together, we explored:What influence really means and why it mattersHow to lead and create impact before you have the titleBuilding trust with sceptical stakeholders and competing interestsThe role of networks and social capital in amplifying influenceProf Dr Ong Kian Ming is the Executive Director of RGE and an Adjunct Professor at Taylor's University. Prior to this, he served as Malaysia's Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry (2018–2020) and was a two-term Member of Parliament. Today, he continues to advise businesses, industry bodies, and think tanks alongside his academic and executive roles.Zalina Jamaluddin is the Head of Decarbonisation at Hibiscus Petroleum Berhad. With over 20 years of experience across the private and public sectors, she has held senior roles at ExxonMobil and Talisman Energy, was a founding member and Vice President of the Malaysia Petroleum Resources Corporation (MPRC), and currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).To everyone who joined us live at the Building Influence workshop  - thank you for showing up with such openness, curiosity, and energy. We're truly grateful you chose to kick-start 2026 with us. And to those tuning in now, we hope this conversation sparks a reminder that influence doesn't begin with a title; it begins with how you choose to show up, right where you are.

Visiting local markets is one of the best ways to immerse yourself in the culture and food of a city. Brent talks with locals about the diverse markets of Palermo, how to find the best fish at the Rialto Market in Venice, the kind of fruit at the market in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and the must have food souvenir from the market in Mexico City. [Ep 375] Show Notes: Destination Eat Drink foodie travel guide ebooks Destination Eat Drink blog Alternative Tours Palermo with Enrica Venice with Monica Cesarato Simply Enak food tours with Pauline Lee Mexico City food tours with Culinary Backstreets

LONDON (ICIS)--A mix of regulatory changes, feedstock volatility and global economic factors is transforming the global oleochemicals market.In this latest podcast, senior editors Helen Yan, Eashani Chavda and Lucas Hall and joins markets editor Nazif Nazmul to share the latest developments and expectations ahead of the Palm and Lauric Oils Conference (POC) being held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 9-11 February. Asia crude glycerine up on Indonesia export tax hike to 10% Adequate US oleochemical supply catering to relatively soft demand Europe fatty alcohols C12-14 spot prices rise by double-digits, bolstered by PKO spikes

Not too far from the heart of Kuala Lumpur, there's a place where mangroves meet mudflats, migratory birds stop to rest, and silvered leaf monkeys peer down from the trees. The Kuala Selangor Nature Park may be easy to reach, but its importance goes far beyond a weekend escape. In conjunction with World Wetlands Day, we're taking a closer look at this unique wetland ecosystem, including how it protects coastlines, supports wildlife, and connects people to nature. Joining us to do that are Ng Sean Fong, the Data & Policy Officer at the Malaysian Nature Society (MNS), and Vivian Soon, a Wildlife and Conservation Officer, also with the Malaysian Nature Society (MNS). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fakt oder Fake? Die russische Propaganda rund um den Abschuss des Flugs MH17. Und: Für immer mehr Menschen ist das Pflegeheim ihr letztes Zuhause – das Personal ist gefordert und dringend gesucht: die 24-Stunden-Reportage. Das letzte Zuhause: 24 Stunden im Pflegeheim Für viele Menschen ist das Pflegeheim ihr letztes Zuhause. Der Bedarf an Plätzen steigt in den nächsten Jahren enorm – insbesondere für Menschen mit Demenz. Die «Rundschau» filmte 24 Stunden lang im Alterszentrum in Wattenwil BE. Die Reportage zeigt, wie gefordert die Pflegenden sind, und gibt Einblick in die Perspektiven der Bewohnenden und Angehörigen. Ein Alltag zwischen Hektik und Langsamkeit, Selbstbestimmung und Verzweiflung. Denn die meisten Menschen wohnen nicht freiwillig im Heim. SRF-Themenwoche «Fakt oder Fake?»: Russlands Propaganda Vor fast 12 Jahren wurde über der Ostukraine ein Passagierflugzeug von prorussischen Kräften abgeschossen. Flug MH17 war auf dem Weg von Amsterdam nach Kuala Lumpur. Alle 298 Menschen an Bord starben. Russland weist bis heute jegliche Verantwortung dafür zurück – und russische Medien haben nach dem Absturz jahrelang Desinformation verbreitet. Die «Rundschau» trifft eine Journalistin, die Teil der Propagandamaschine war, spricht mit dem Vater eines Opfers und dem Gründer des Recherchenetzwerks Bellingcat, das massgeblich zur Aufklärung des Falles beigetragen hat.

Fakt oder Fake? Die russische Propaganda rund um den Abschuss des Flugs MH17. Und: Für immer mehr Menschen ist das Pflegeheim ihr letztes Zuhause – das Personal ist gefordert und dringend gesucht: die 24-Stunden-Reportage. Das letzte Zuhause: 24 Stunden im Pflegeheim Für viele Menschen ist das Pflegeheim ihr letztes Zuhause. Der Bedarf an Plätzen steigt in den nächsten Jahren enorm – insbesondere für Menschen mit Demenz. Die «Rundschau» filmte 24 Stunden lang im Alterszentrum in Wattenwil BE. Die Reportage zeigt, wie gefordert die Pflegenden sind, und gibt Einblick in die Perspektiven der Bewohnenden und Angehörigen. Ein Alltag zwischen Hektik und Langsamkeit, Selbstbestimmung und Verzweiflung. Denn die meisten Menschen wohnen nicht freiwillig im Heim. SRF-Themenwoche «Fakt oder Fake?»: Russlands Propaganda Vor fast 12 Jahren wurde über der Ostukraine ein Passagierflugzeug von prorussischen Kräften abgeschossen. Flug MH17 war auf dem Weg von Amsterdam nach Kuala Lumpur. Alle 298 Menschen an Bord starben. Russland weist bis heute jegliche Verantwortung dafür zurück – und russische Medien haben nach dem Absturz jahrelang Desinformation verbreitet. Die «Rundschau» trifft eine Journalistin, die Teil der Propagandamaschine war, spricht mit dem Vater eines Opfers und dem Gründer des Recherchenetzwerks Bellingcat, das massgeblich zur Aufklärung des Falles beigetragen hat.

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La Birmanie va débuter la troisième et dernière phase des élections générales dimanche 25 janvier. La junte au pouvoir depuis le coup d'État de 2021 organise le scrutin et tente de se légitimer aux yeux de la communauté internationale. Elles sont toutefois qualifiées de « mascarade » par la plupart des ONG et observateurs. De nombreux réfugiés birmans regardent cette élection depuis l'extérieur et notamment les Rohingyas, majoritairement musulmans et victimes de graves persécutions depuis l'indépendance du pays. Alors que la Gambie a saisi la Cour internationale de justice pour accuser la Birmanie du génocide de la communauté, plusieurs d'entre eux, exilés en Malaisie, ont accepté de témoigner. De notre envoyée spéciale à Kuala Lumpur, Dans le sud de Kuala Lumpur, un bâtiment discret se fond dans le quartier. À l'intérieur : les locaux d'une association d'aide aux réfugiés birmans, et notamment aux Rohingyas. Rafik Ismaël est originaire de l'État birman d'Arakan. Lui et sa famille ont fui les persécutions il y a presque 30 ans. « Mon père était un leader local, donc il essayait d'aider les communautés qui avaient besoin de nourriture. Mais les militaires n'aimaient pas ça, et ils ont pris mon père pour le mettre dans un camp de détention. Ensuite, ils s'en sont pris à ma mère, et puis à mon grand-père. Notre communauté s'est battue pour ma famille, mais après les avoir libérés, les militaires nous ont dit : "Il vaut mieux que vous partiez, sinon on tuera toute la famille." » À lire aussiÉlections en Birmanie: «C'est un effort visant à légitimer un pouvoir qui va se succéder à lui-même» Un problème qui dure depuis 70 ans Malgré l'exil, Rafik Ismaël regarde attentivement le déroulement des élections organisées en Birmanie dans les médias : « Le problème en Birmanie dure déjà depuis 70 ans, donc je ne vois aucun avenir possible. Sauf si on fait partir la junte. L'élection pourrait alors permettre la démocratie, peut-être qu'on aurait une chance, mais cette élection-là ne sert à rien. Pour nous Rohingyas, que ce soit la junte ou Aung San Suu Kyi, c'est pareil. Parce qu'ils ne nous soutiennent pas. La dernière fois, parce qu'elle a obtenu le prix Nobel de la paix, vous savez, on a cru qu'elle pouvait faire quelque chose de meilleur pour le pays, mais malheureusement non, on n'a vu rien bon de sa part. » Dans un coin de la pièce, Katija regarde attentivement deux réfugiés endormis sur des matelas posés au sol. Elle a fui la Birmanie il y a cinq ans. Certains de ses proches rohingyas sont toujours sur place : « Mon beau-frère a été pris par l'armée d'Arakan en 2024, c'était l'an dernier. Il a été battu pendant environ deux mois, donc il ne peut presque plus bouger, il est quasiment paralysé maintenant. Je crois à l'unité, mais je ne pense pas que la situation en Birmanie va s'améliorer. On sait que beaucoup de pays soutiennent la junte avec des armes et aussi de l'argent. Nous connaissons la plus longue guerre de l'histoire, donc je ne pense pas que ça ira mieux. » D'autres difficultés font désormais le quotidien de ces Rohingyas, exilés en Malaisie : le pays n'est pas signataire de la convention de l'ONU pour les réfugiés. L'accès à l'emploi, la santé et l'éducation sont notamment limités. À lire aussiBirmanie: la junte organise la deuxième phase des élections législatives

La Birmanie va débuter la troisième et dernière phase des élections générales dimanche 25 janvier. La junte au pouvoir depuis le coup d'État de 2021 organise le scrutin et tente de se légitimer aux yeux de la communauté internationale. Elles sont toutefois qualifiées de « mascarade » par la plupart des ONG et observateurs. De nombreux réfugiés birmans regardent cette élection depuis l'extérieur et notamment les Rohingyas, majoritairement musulmans et victimes de graves persécutions depuis l'indépendance du pays. Alors que la Gambie a saisi la Cour internationale de justice pour accuser la Birmanie du génocide de la communauté, plusieurs d'entre eux, exilés en Malaisie, ont accepté de témoigner. De notre envoyée spéciale à Kuala Lumpur, Dans le sud de Kuala Lumpur, un bâtiment discret se fond dans le quartier. À l'intérieur : les locaux d'une association d'aide aux réfugiés birmans, et notamment aux Rohingyas. Rafik Ismaël est originaire de l'État birman d'Arakan. Lui et sa famille ont fui les persécutions il y a presque 30 ans. « Mon père était un leader local, donc il essayait d'aider les communautés qui avaient besoin de nourriture. Mais les militaires n'aimaient pas ça, et ils ont pris mon père pour le mettre dans un camp de détention. Ensuite, ils s'en sont pris à ma mère, et puis à mon grand-père. Notre communauté s'est battue pour ma famille, mais après les avoir libérés, les militaires nous ont dit : "Il vaut mieux que vous partiez, sinon on tuera toute la famille." » À lire aussiÉlections en Birmanie: «C'est un effort visant à légitimer un pouvoir qui va se succéder à lui-même» Un problème qui dure depuis 70 ans Malgré l'exil, Rafik Ismaël regarde attentivement le déroulement des élections organisées en Birmanie dans les médias : « Le problème en Birmanie dure déjà depuis 70 ans, donc je ne vois aucun avenir possible. Sauf si on fait partir la junte. L'élection pourrait alors permettre la démocratie, peut-être qu'on aurait une chance, mais cette élection-là ne sert à rien. Pour nous Rohingyas, que ce soit la junte ou Aung San Suu Kyi, c'est pareil. Parce qu'ils ne nous soutiennent pas. La dernière fois, parce qu'elle a obtenu le prix Nobel de la paix, vous savez, on a cru qu'elle pouvait faire quelque chose de meilleur pour le pays, mais malheureusement non, on n'a vu rien bon de sa part. » Dans un coin de la pièce, Katija regarde attentivement deux réfugiés endormis sur des matelas posés au sol. Elle a fui la Birmanie il y a cinq ans. Certains de ses proches rohingyas sont toujours sur place : « Mon beau-frère a été pris par l'armée d'Arakan en 2024, c'était l'an dernier. Il a été battu pendant environ deux mois, donc il ne peut presque plus bouger, il est quasiment paralysé maintenant. Je crois à l'unité, mais je ne pense pas que la situation en Birmanie va s'améliorer. On sait que beaucoup de pays soutiennent la junte avec des armes et aussi de l'argent. Nous connaissons la plus longue guerre de l'histoire, donc je ne pense pas que ça ira mieux. » D'autres difficultés font désormais le quotidien de ces Rohingyas, exilés en Malaisie : le pays n'est pas signataire de la convention de l'ONU pour les réfugiés. L'accès à l'emploi, la santé et l'éducation sont notamment limités. À lire aussiBirmanie: la junte organise la deuxième phase des élections législatives

Delivered by Thia Santos from Church of Divine Mercy Shah Alam in the Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 2 Samuel 1: 1-4.11-12.19.23-27; Rs psalm 80: 2-3.5-7; Mark 3: 20-21.THE WAY OF GOD IS FREE OF OBSTACLES Our meditation today is entitled: The Way of God is Free ofObstacles. In the Gospel of Mark chapter 3, Jesus is described serving so manypeople that He and His apostles did not have time to eat. The crowd came withhope, pain and inner wounds were carried, prayers were raised, and Jesusremained fully present for them.  His ministry is like a continuous flow of grace, unstoppableby human fatigue, time, or limitations. In the perspective of faith, this isnot just busyness, but a sign that God's will is at work: saving, restoring,and delivering. God never stops working. He does not sleep. However, interestingly, the larger the work that is done, thegreater the misunderstandings that arise. Jesus' relatives considered Himinsane, because they saw Him as unguarded and beyond the limits of humanreasonableness. This situation illustrates the fact that God's way is notalways easy for human logic to understand. Even those closest to us can become"obstacles" through wrong judgment, not because of evil, but becausethey do not understand God's actions. If we look at the story of King David, his various successesin warfare demonstrate one powerful spiritual principle: God's way isunstoppable. David did not win by personal strength alone, but because hewalked in God's will. When God desires restoration and victory for His people,any obstacle of any magnitude will be removed. The history of salvation showsthat God's work is always moving forward, transcending human limitations andpenetrating situations that seem impossible. So we always see that in God thereare many surprises. This does not mean that the life of the believer is free ofproblems. Obstacles, challenges, and struggles are a natural part of a worldwounded by sin and weakness. But faith teaches something deeper: obstacles arenever able to make God's way dead. In divine providence, even obstacles can beused as a path of formation, refinement of motivation, and maturation of love.What appears to be a delay or failure often becomes a space for God to affirmdirection and purify the heart. In times of very difficult situations, Godstill provides room for a way out. Therefore, "God's way without obstacles" does notmean without a cross, but a path that will surely reach its goal. God's willwill go on, until it reaches its fullness: union with the eternal Triune God.Our duty is to remain faithful, even if we are misunderstood, even though weare tired, even though our prayers have not been answered immediately. For whena person walks in God's will, he is not pursuing the success of the world, butis following the never-ending stream of salvation—the ever-open path to eternallife.Letus pray. In the name of the Father ... O heavenly God, free us always from allthe obstacles that obscure us in Your path to lead us to eternal salvation.Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit... In the name of theFather ...

Invité: Jean-Pierre Poulain. Lʹobésité est souvent présentée comme la maladie du siècle. Une véritable épidémie qui ne cesserait dʹaugmenter, année après année. En Suisse, environ 12% de la population adulte est considérée comme obèse. Et si, pour inverser la tendance, il fallait changer de discours? Devrait-on changer le regard, faire baisser la pression qui est exercée sur les corps? Tribu reçoit Jean-Pierre Poulain, anthropologue, sociologue de lʹalimentation, professeur émérite de l'université Toulouse. Il est également titulaire de la chaire dʹétudes sur la nourriture, la culture et la santé à la Taylor's University, à Kuala Lumpur. Il est également lʹauteur de ce livre, "Sociologie de lʹobésité", au PUF.

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This week, Steve Okun, CEO of APAC Advisors, joins Saturday Mornings Show” host Glenn van Zutphen and co-host Neil Humphreys in studio to unpack a diverse set of international stories shaping headlines. We begin with the latest Denmark–Greenland talks, where U.S. interest in the Arctic has reignited debates over sovereignty and strategic influence. Steve explains why Greenland’s position matters geopolitically and how small states navigate such pressures. We then turn to diplomatic etiquette, with reminders about what embassies should—and should not—do abroad. This leads into a discussion of the U.S. Embassy in Singapore’s call for sponsorships for its Fourth of July celebrations, a practice common across embassies and high commissions worldwide, though often misunderstood by the public. Finally, we lighten the mood with a quirky kicker from Malaysia. After the U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur shared a satellite image highlighting oil reserves, Malaysians took to social media with humor, joking that their country has “no oil, only palm oil.” It’s a reminder that even serious geopolitical conversations can spark moments of levity and possible concern behind the laughs.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of Picking Up Where We Left Off the conversation revisits the evolving maritime security challenges facing Southeast Asia—a region central to global trade and geopolitical stability. Building on insights from a 2024 Hollings Center dialogue in Kuala Lumpur, the episode explores how traditional threats such as smuggling, human trafficking, and illegal fishing are increasingly intertwined with emerging risks, including “dark shipping,” sanctioned oil transfers, and the growing vulnerability of undersea infrastructure. The discussion underscores how Southeast Asia's heavy reliance on secure sea lanes makes disruptions at sea not only a regional concern, but one with direct implications for international commerce, energy flows, and digital connectivity worldwide. Featuring perspectives from Gilang Kembara of Nanyang Technological University and Elina Noor of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the episode highlights the often-overlooked risks to submarine cables that carry the vast majority of global internet traffic, as well as the safety, environmental, and accountability gaps created by illicit maritime practices. The guests emphasize that addressing these challenges requires a coordinated, multi-stakeholder response—one that brings together governments, regional bodies such as Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the United States, and private-sector and cybersecurity actors. Rather than offering simple solutions, the episode makes clear that safeguarding Southeast Asia's maritime domain will demand sustained cooperation and a whole-of-society approach to managing the region's increasingly complex maritime risks.

Les ennuis judiciaires s'accumulent pour la galaxie d'Elon Musk. Cette fois, on ne parle ni de polémiques sur la modération, ni de débats idéologiques autour de la liberté d'expression. Les autorités françaises et malaisiennes viennent d'ouvrir, presque simultanément, des enquêtes visant la plateforme X et son intelligence artificielle Grok. Le motif est d'une tout autre gravité : la diffusion de contenus pédopornographiques générés par IA.Les faits sont glaçants. Des utilisateurs ont montré qu'il suffisait de formuler certaines requêtes pour obtenir, via Grok, des images hyperréalistes représentant des mineurs dans des tenues explicitement sexualisées, parfois entièrement nus. Là où d'autres systèmes d'IA bloquent strictement ce type de demandes, l'outil développé par xAI a laissé passer ces requêtes. La réponse officielle évoque des « défaillances dans les garde-fous ». Une justification jugée bien légère au regard de la gravité des contenus produits.En France, la réaction a été rapide. Le parquet de Paris, par l'intermédiaire de sa section spécialisée dans la cybercriminalité, a ouvert une enquête pour diffusion d'images pédopornographiques. Cette procédure vient s'ajouter à d'autres dossiers déjà en cours visant X et Grok, notamment pour des dérapages de contenu signalés fin 2024. Mais le changement de nature est radical : ici, il n'est plus question d'opinions ou de désinformation, mais de protection de l'enfance. Un domaine où la tolérance des autorités est proche de zéro et où le statut de plateforme technologique n'offre que peu d'abris juridiques. Ce scandale met surtout en lumière les conséquences concrètes de la doctrine défendue par Elon Musk : une liberté d'expression quasi absolue, obtenue au prix du démantèlement des équipes de modération, d'éthique et de sécurité. En retirant ces garde-fous, xAI a laissé une IA puissante évoluer sans limites claires. Le résultat est aujourd'hui sous les yeux des enquêteurs.La situation est d'autant plus explosive en Malaisie. Le pays vient tout juste de signer un partenariat pour intégrer Grok comme outil éducatif dans les écoles publiques. À Kuala Lumpur, les autorités doivent désormais rassurer des parents stupéfaits : comment expliquer qu'un logiciel présenté comme un assistant scolaire puisse produire certains des contenus les plus illégaux du web ? L'affaire dépasse largement le cadre d'un incident technique. Elle prend désormais des allures de crise politique, judiciaire et de santé numérique, avec des répercussions internationales qui pourraient durablement fragiliser l'empire Musk. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Tháng 10/2025, tổng thống Mỹ Donald Trump đến Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, họp thượng đỉnh với các nước ASEAN nhằm trấn an đồng minh, đối tác. Hoa Kỳ đã ký nhiều thỏa thuận, cam kết liên quan đến an ninh với Việt Nam, Malaysia, Philippines, Cam Bốt. Liệu Đông Nam Á lại trở thành tâm điểm trong chính sách đối ngoại của Mỹ năm 2026 ? Tại sao Washington lại tái khẳng định hiện diện mạnh mẽ hơn ở Đông Nam Á, đặc biệt là ở Biển Đông, trong thời điểm này ? Liệu những cam kết như vậy có lợi cho Việt Nam không ? RFI Tiếng Việt phỏng vấn nhà nghiên cứu địa-chính trị Laurent Gédéon, tại Viện Đông Á (Institut d'Asie orientale), Trường Sư phạm Lyon (ENS Lyon), Pháp. RFI : Việc Hoa Kỳ trở lại hội nghị thượng đỉnh châu Á gửi đi một tín hiệu chính trị mạnh mẽ. Washington thực sự đang tìm kiếm điều gì thông qua việc tái khẳng định sự hiện diện của họ ở Đông Nam Á này ? Laurent Gédéon : Đúng là Pete Hegseth đã đến Kuala Lumpur ngày 30/10/2025 để tham dự cuộc họp của các bộ trưởng Quốc Phòng ASEAN mở rộng. Có thể thấy rõ Mỹ muốn tận dụng cơ hội này để tái khởi động mối quan hệ với ba kiểu quốc gia : Trung Quốc ; các nước trong khu vực có quan hệ tốt nhưng không mang tính chiến lược ; các nước có mối liên hệ chặt chẽ với Mỹ về quốc phòng. Ông Hegseth đã gặp bộ trưởng Quốc Phòng Trung Quốc Đổng Quân để thảo luận về việc nối lại các cuộc trao đổi quân sự trực tiếp giữa Washington và Bắc Kinh, nhưng cũng chia sẻ những lo ngại của Mỹ về hành vi của Trung Quốc ở Biển Đông và xung quanh Đài Loan. Thông qua cuộc gặp với người đồng cấp Trung Quốc, bộ trưởng Chiến Tranh Mỹ muốn tái khẳng định cam kết của Washington về hai vấn đề này. Rất có thể là việc tỏ thái độ kiên quyết đó chủ yếu nhằm mục đích trấn an các bên khác tham dự hội cấp cao về quyết tâm của Washington. Ngoài ra, ông Hegseth cũng đã tận dụng cơ hội đó để ký nhiều thỏa thuận quân sự với ba quốc gia trong khu vực. Trước tiên là với Philippines, ông Hegseth gặp bộ trưởng Quốc Phòng Philippines và tuyên bố thành lập Lực lượng Đặc nhiệm Philippines (Task Force-Philippines). Đây là một sáng kiến ​​chung nhằm cải thiện sự hợp tác và khả năng tương tác giữa Mỹ và Philippines trong trường hợp khẩn cấp ở Biển Đông và các khu vực khác. Đọc thêmMỹ và Malaysia củng cố hợp tác quốc phòng ở Biển Đông để đối phó với "chiến thuật vùng xám" Với Malaysia, ông Hegseth đã họp với bộ trưởng Quốc Phòng Mohamed Khaled Nordin. Hai bên đã ký một bản ghi nhớ về hợp tác quốc phòng, công bố gia hạn thỏa thuận chung về mua sắm thiết bị quân sự và hỗ trợ nhau. Và cuối cùng, với Cam Bốt, ông và người đồng cấp Cam Bốt đã tuyên bố nối lại cuộc tập trận chung thường niên, vốn bị đình chỉ từ năm 2017. Hai bên cũng đề cập đến khả năng một tàu chiến của Mỹ đến thăm Căn cứ Hải quân Ream ở Cam Bốt. Căn cứ này được Trung Quốc hỗ trợ hiện đại hóa và lực lượng Trung Quốc được hưởng quyền tiếp cận đặc biệt. Tất cả những yếu tố này, bao gồm cả cuộc gặp với bộ trưởng Quốc Phòng Việt Nam, đều thể hiện rõ mong muốn tái đầu tư của Mỹ vào khu vực và, thông qua các thỏa thuận này, mong muốn tích hợp một số nước trong khu vực vào một cấu trúc an ninh trong tương lai mà phần nào có thể nhắm đến Trung Quốc. RFI : “Nước Mỹ trên hết không có nghĩa là Nước Mỹ đơn độc”. Ông Hegseth tái khẳng định cam kết của Hoa Kỳ đối với khu vực Ấn Độ-Thái Bình Dương. Điều này đã được thể hiện qua quan hệ đối tác an ninh giữa Mỹ với Malaysia và với Philippines, như ông đã giải thích. Liệu sự trở lại ấn tượng như vậy có thuyết phục được các nước ASEAN và có lợi cho họ không, khi mà những nước này không hề nhắc đích danh Bắc Kinh trong những lời chỉ trích về hành động gây bất ổn của Trung Quốc ? Laurent Gédéon : Đúng vậy, không gian hàng hải đã được nhấn mạnh thành trọng tâm bởi vì trong tuyên bố ngày 01/11/2025, ông Hegseth nói :  Chúng tôi đang thực hiện nguyên tắc “Nước Mỹ trên hết”. Nhưng “Nước Mỹ trên hết” không có nghĩa là chỉ riêng nước Mỹ. Nó có nghĩa là cùng với các đồng minh và đối tác của chúng tôi, những bên có khả năng duy trì an ninh, ổn định, tự do hàng hải và cuối cùng là hòa bình. Mặc dù các nước ASEAN không nêu đích danh Trung Quốc, nhưng Bắc Kinh đã được bộ trưởng Chiến Tranh Mỹ nhắc đến rất nhiều. Ví dụ, trong cuộc họp không chính thức, ông Hegseth đã cảnh báo các bộ trưởng Quốc Phòng ASEAN về mối đe dọa mà Trung Quốc gây ra cho chủ quyền của nước họ. Ông nói :  Hành động của Trung Quốc là một lời cảnh tỉnh... Các hành động khiêu khích của Trung Quốc cũng thể hiện sự thiếu tôn trọng đối với đất nước của quý vị, thách thức và đe dọa chủ quyền lãnh thổ của đất nước quý vị. Ông Hegseth tái khẳng định cam kết của Hoa Kỳ trong việc duy trì một khu vực Ấn Độ-Thái Bình Dương an toàn và ổn định. Ông cũng cổ vũ sự hợp tác giữa Mỹ và ASEAN để phát triển nhận thức tình hình hàng hải chung, đặc biệt là ở Biển Đông. Đây là điểm quan trọng. Thêm vào đó, ngày 09/09, bộ trưởng Quốc Phòng Mỹ đã nói với người đồng cấp Trung Quốc Đổng Quân rằng Mỹ có những lợi ích sống còn ở khu vực châu Á-Thái Bình Dương, mà Washington coi là một khu vực hoạt động ưu tiên, và Mỹ sẽ kiên quyết bảo vệ những lợi ích đó. Tuy nhiên, có thể nhận thấy cho dù Mỹ thể hiện quyết đoán, có lập trường vững chắc như vậy, các quốc gia trong khu vực vẫn còn khá lưỡng lự về mức độ cam kết của Washington đối với các vấn đề như Biển Đông và Đài Loan. Thái độ lưỡng lự này được thôi thúc bởi điều được gọi là “sự mơ hồ chiến lược” của Mỹ, khi Washington không nêu rõ là sẽ tham gia hay không, hoặc là họ sẽ tham gia như thế nào vào một cuộc xung đột công khai với Trung Quốc. RFI : Sự trở lại của Mỹ, hay nói đúng hơn là sự tăng cường cam kết của Mỹ đối với khu vực có thể sẽ mang lại lợi ích như thế nào cho Việt Nam ? Laurent Gédéon : Tôi nghĩ rằng bất kỳ sự tái đầu tư nào của Mỹ vào khu vực, nếu không dẫn đến xung đột trực tiếp với Trung Quốc, đều chỉ có lợi cho Việt Nam, vì nó củng cố cán cân chiến lược khu vực và giảm bớt quan hệ bất đối xứng với Trung Quốc, ngay cả khi không có thỏa thuận quân sự chính thức giữa Hà Nội và Washington. Đọc thêmBiển Đông, Trung Quốc : Việt Nam cần đề phòng khả năng Trump "rũ áo" như với Ukraina? Do đó, chắc chắn rằng lập trường kiên quyết của ông Hegseth, đặc biệt là về Biển Đông, chỉ có thể được Hà Nội hoan nghênh vì nó phù hợp với các tuyên bố và yêu cầu của Việt Nam. Tuy nhiên, vẫn tồn đọng một sự bất trắc chiến lược, đặc biệt là về ý muốn thực sự của Mỹ trong việc ngăn chặn chủ nghĩa bành trướng của Trung Quốc bằng vũ lực nếu tình hình đòi hỏi. Điểm bất trắc thứ hai liên quan đến kết quả của một cuộc đối đầu tiềm tàng giữa Trung Quốc và Mỹ. Các kịch bản được thảo ra cho kết quả khác nhau, và không phải tất cả đều cho rằng lực lượng Mỹ thắng quân đội Trung Quốc. Do đó, tôi tin rằng những điểm không chắc chắn này sẽ khiến Việt Nam tiếp tục thận trọng trong lập trường ngoại giao, ưu tiên giữ trung lập giữa Washington và Bắc Kinh để bảo vệ tương lai của mình. RFI : Thỏa thuận được gọi là “Thỏa thuận hòa bình” giữa Thái Lan và Cam Bốt được ký kết dưới sự bảo trợ của tổng thống Mỹ Donald Trump. Sự kiện này cho thấy mức độ ảnh hưởng của Hoa Kỳ tại khu vực châu Á-Thái Bình Dương. Nhưng liệu kiểu ảnh hưởng đó, dưới sự đe dọa về hậu quả kinh tế, có bền vững hay không ? Laurent Gédéon : Chính sách của chính quyền Trump nhìn chung được coi là tương đối khó đoán, điều này làm suy yếu niềm tin vào tính ổn định chiến lược của Hoa Kỳ. Về thỏa thuận do Donald Trump, thủ tướng Thái Lan và thủ tướng Cam Bốt cùng ký, mặc dù được mô tả là một “thỏa thuận hòa bình”, nhưng nó giống với một thỏa thuận ngừng bắn hơn, bởi vì không giải quyết được vấn đề cốt lõi, liên quan đến tranh chấp biên giới giữa hai nước. Đọc thêmChính sách thuế của Trump cản trở chiến lược « xoay trục sang châu Á » của Mỹ Đúng là Donald Trump tự nhận là đóng vai trò quan trọng trong quá trình này, nhất là bằng cách đe dọa đình chỉ các cuộc đàm phán thương mại với cả hai nước và tăng thuế quan. Điều này diễn ra trong bối cảnh Cam Bốt lúc đó chịu mức thuế 49% và Thái Lan 36%. Rõ ràng là áp lực của Mỹ đã thúc đẩy cả hai bên tạm ngừng giao tranh nhưng không chấm dứt được xung đột. Hơn nữa, hai quốc gia khác cũng đóng vai trò quan trọng trong việc giải quyết tạm thời tranh chấp : Malaysia, quốc gia giữ chức chủ tịch ASEAN năm 2025, và Trung Quốc. Cả Kuala Lumpur và Bắc Kinh đều gây áp lực để ngăn chặn xung đột leo thang, bởi vì sẽ đi ngược lại lợi ích của họ. Do đó, sáng kiến ​​của Mỹ quan trọng nhưng cần được xem xét dưới góc độ hai hạn chế sau đây : Thứ nhất, đây không phải là một giải pháp dứt điểm cho xung đột, mà chỉ là một thỏa thuận ngừng bắn ; Thứ hai, điều đó chỉ có thể thực hiện được nhờ hành động phối hợp, dù kín đáo, của hai quốc gia khác. Và đó chính là cách mà các nước trong khu vực nhìn nhận và phân tích. RFI : Philippines giữ chức chủ tịch luân phiên ASEAN năm 2026. Manila có lập trường cứng rắn đối với Trung Quốc, cùng với cam kết của Mỹ, về vấn đề Biển Đông. Chúng ta có thể kỳ vọng những diễn biến nào trong năm 2026 ? Laurent Gédéon : Đúng là rất khó để dự đoán tương lai. Nhưng những yếu tố hiện có cho thấy Philippines, quốc gia đã xích lại gần hơn đáng kể với Mỹ kể từ khi ông Ferdinand Marcos Jr. lên nắm quyền vào năm 2022, có thể sẽ tìm cách thúc đẩy một động thái cứng rắn hơn, hoặc thậm chí là cưỡng chế, đối với Trung Quốc. Ví dụ, Philippines có thể sẽ cố gắng khôi phục việc xây dựng Bộ Quy tắc Ứng xử (COC) ở Biển Đông. Dự án này có từ năm 2002 nhưng chưa bao giờ thành hiện thực, chủ yếu là do Trung Quốc thiếu hành động. Chính quyền Manila cũng có thể cố gắng đạt được sự lên án rõ ràng đối với các hành động của Trung Quốc ở Biển Đông, điều mà ASEAN chưa từng làm cho đến nay. Tuy nhiên, Philippines sẽ phải tính đến việc các nước thành viên ASEAN có mức độ quan hệ khác nhau với Trung Quốc, điển hình như các nước Cam Bốt, Thái Lan và Miến Điện sẽ cố gắng làm giảm nhẹ bất kỳ sáng kiến ​​nào của nước chủ tịch ASEAN mà họ coi là không thân thiện, hoặc quá không thân thiện với Trung Quốc. Đọc thêmPhilippines-Mỹ-Nhật diễn tập tại Biển Đông, Trung Quốc kêu gọi Manila ngừng khiêu khích Một điểm đáng chú ý khác, có thể sẽ được quan tâm trong năm 2026, liên quan đến Đài Loan và khả năng Trung Quốc tiến hành hành động quân sự nhắm đến hòn đảo. Nếu kịch bản này xảy ra và Mỹ can thiệp, Philippines sẽ ở tuyến đầu, thậm chí có thể là một bên tham chiến. Trong giả thuyết này, câu hỏi đặt ra là về khả năng hành động và mức độ chủ động của Philippines trong ASEAN, bởi vì Philippines vừa là một bên tham gia xung đột vừa giữ chức chủ tịch ASEAN. Do đó, năm 2026 chắc chắn sẽ có rất nhiều biến động và cần được theo dõi sát sao. RFI Tiếng Việt xin chân thành cảm ơn nhà nghiên cứu Laurent Gédéon, giảng viên Trường Sư phạm Lyon.

前回（ぜんかい）に引（ひ）き続（つづ）き、今回（こんかい）もマレーシアでの島生活（しませいかつ）についてお話（はな）しています。前回（ぜんかい）はダイビングの仕事（しごと）を中心（ちゅうしん）に話（はな）しましたが、今回はとらくんが実際（じっさい）に滞在（たいざい）していた島（しま）、**Tioman（ティオマン）島（とう）**についてお話ししています。島（しま）での生活（せいかつ）や、文化（ぶんか）・宗教（しゅうきょう）・食（た）べ物（もの）の違（ちが）いなど、実際（じっさい）に暮（く）らしてみて感（かん）じたことを、リアルに話しています。もし興味（きょうみ）があれば、ぜひ行（い）ってみてください。クアラルンプールから8時間（じかん）以上（いじょう）かかるけどね…（笑）In this episode, we continue talking about life in Malaysia.Last time, we focused on Tora's diving job, but this time we're talking more about the island he stayed on — Tioman Island.We share what life was really like there, including cultural differences, religion, and food.If you're curious about island life, you might want to check it out…even though it takes over 8 hours from Kuala Lumpur to get there. LOL

The search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is set to resume, more than a decade after the aircraft vanished while travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. - Pencarian pesawat Malaysia Airlines MH370 dilanjutkan kembali, setelah lebih dari satu dekade pesawat tersebut hilang saat terbang dari Kuala Lumpur ke Beijing yang berpenumpang 239 orang.

Cuộc tìm kiếm chuyến bay MH370 của Malaysia Airlines dự kiến được nối lại vào hôm nay Thứ Ba, 30 tháng 12, hơn một thập niên sau khi chiếc máy bay biến mất khi đang bay từ Kuala Lumpur đến Bắc Kinh với 239 người trên khoang. Một cuộc tìm kiếm mới ở khu vực nam Ấn Độ Dương đang được tiến hành bởi công ty robot hàng hải tư nhân Ocean Infinity, sử dụng công nghệ tiên tiến với hy vọng tìm ra lời giải cho một trong những bí ẩn hàng không lớn nhất thế giới. Nhưng gia đình các hành khách trên chuyến bay cho biết họ cần sự minh bạch về các điều khoản của cuộc tìm kiếm, và sự rõ ràng về triển vọng tìm thấy.

Baadigoob cusub oo dib loogu raadinayo diyaaraddii Malaysia Airlines ee number-ka duulimaadkeedu ahaa MH370 ayaa dib loo bilaabay Talaadadii, December 30 2025, in ka badan toban sano kaddib markii ay diyaaraddaasi luntay. Diyaaraddaas ayaa ka duushay magaalada Kuala Lumpur kuna sii jeedday magaalada Beijing, iyadoo ay saarnaayeen 239 qof.

Près de 12 ans après la disparition du vol MH370 de la Malaysia Airlines au sud de l'Océan Indien, les recherches reprennent ce mardi 30 décembre. Le Boeing 777 devait relier Kuala Lumpur en Malaisie à Pékin le 8 mars 2014 mais il n'est jamais arrivé à destination, il a même fait demi-tour, selon les rapports de l'enquête. Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Forget rice for breakfast - this week, it's stingray for dinner! Alun's been exploring Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's fast-developing capital, including its culinary delights. We hear all about his experience trying Malaysia's unusual street food, stingray, at the popular night market: Jalan Alor Food Street. Apologies to all you divemasters out there!Alun also shares a heartwarming, full-circle moment, revisiting an old friend he met on his very first backpacking trip to China; along with a story involving a wealthy Swedish man, an airport lounge, and a Lebanese football team. If this isn't what travel's about, then we don't know what is!Support the show and gain access to the Lost & Found section. This week, Adam's been partying on the outskirts of a small hippie town in Golden Bay. 24-hours, 200 people, a hidden forest location, and lots of bare feet.Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tripologypodcastSubmit your travel stories here: https://www.tripologypodcast.com/talesofatripNeed travel insurance? We recommend SafetyWing! Click here to get started: ⁠⁠⁠https://safetywing.com/?referenceID=26035801&utm_source=26035801&utm_medium=AmbassadorRequire an onward flight? Please use this fantastic flight rental service: ⁠⁠⁠https://onwardticket.com/tripologypodcast⁠⁠⁠Discord: https://discord.gg/JB9wcRbqInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/tripologypodcast/Website: https://www.tripologypodcast.comYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tripologypodcastX: https://x.com/tripologypod

Episode #458: Lilianne Fan is a long-time Myanmar analyst and advocate who served as an adviser to the ASEAN Special Envoy on Myanmar and as part of Malaysia's advisory group during its ASEAN chairmanship. Drawing on that insider role, she argues that ASEAN's response to the 2021 coup must be judged by how ASEAN actually functions, not by expectations of decisive moral intervention.Fan explains that ASEAN's Five-Point Consensus was never meant to resolve Myanmar's crisis. Its real purpose was to create a diplomatic framework that allowed ASEAN to remain engaged while denying the junta regional legitimacy. Most significantly, it institutionalized the exclusion of Min Aung Hlaing from high-level ASEAN meetings, preventing the military from claiming regional endorsement.She acknowledges ASEAN's early failures, particularly its initial reliance on shuttle diplomacy with the junta and its slow recognition of Myanmar's mass civilian resistance. Over time, however, ASEAN adapted. Under Indonesia and especially Malaysia, engagement broadened to include resistance actors, ethnic organizations, and civil society.Fan highlights Malaysia's chairmanship as a turning point. Kuala Lumpur invested heavily in preparation and conflict analysis, convening confidential, structured Track One meetings with resistance stakeholders, complemented by Track 1.5 dialogues with experts and civil society. These processes treated resistance groups as serious political actors without granting formal recognition.She also points to a major humanitarian shift: ASEAN's formal acknowledgment that aid cannot rely solely on the AHA Centre and must include cross-border assistance and local delivery networks. Fan concludes that while ASEAN cannot force outcomes or reform the military, it plays a critical role in maintaining political red lines, preventing premature legitimization of the junta, and slowly reshaping ASEAN's own approach to conflict and legitimacy.

The search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is set to resume more than a decade after the aircraft vanished while travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. A fresh search in the southern Indian Ocean is being conducted by private marine robotics company Ocean Infinity, using advanced technology in hopes of retrieving answers to one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries. But families of passengers on board say they need transparency on the terms of the search, and clarity on the prospects for recovery.

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VOV1 - Các quan chức Thái Lan và Campuchia dự kiến sẽ gặp nhau vào ngày 24/12 để thảo luận khả năng nối lại lệnh ngừng bắn.Thủ tướng Thái Lan Anutin Charnvirakul và Thủ tướng Campuchia Hun Manet bên lề Hội nghị thượng đỉnh ASEAN lần thứ 47 tại Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ngày 26 tháng 10 năm 2025- Nguồn: Reuters

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Hey before I begin I just want to thank all of you who have joined the patreon, you guys are awesome. Please let me know what other figures, events or other things you want to hear about in the future and I will try to make it happen.   If you are a long time listener to the Pacific War week by week podcast over at KNG or viewer of my youtube channel you have probably heard me talk about Tomoyuki Yamashita, the Tiger of Malaya quite often. It goes without saying when it comes to Japanese generals of WW2 he stands out. Not just to me, from the offset of the war he made a large impression on westerners, he achieved incredible feats early on in the war. Now if you look up books about him, you will pretty much only find information in regards to his infamous war crimes trial. Hell it was so infamous the legal doctrine of hierarchical accountability for war crimes, whereby a commanding officer is legally responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by his subordinates, was created. This is known as the command responsibility or “the Yamashita standard”. His court case was very controversial, he remains a controversial figure, certainly to the people of territories he campaigned in, but I think what can be said of him the most is he was special amongst the Japanese generals. Anyways lets get the show on the road as they say.   So who was Yamashita? When he was 59 years old commanding forces in the Philippines against General Douglas MacArthur, he weighed 220 ls and stood 5 feet 9 inches. His girth pressed out against his green army uniform. He had an egg shaped head, balding, wide spaced eyes and a flat nose. He wore a short mustache, sort of like Hitlers, until it grayed then he shaved it off. He was not a very attractive man, Filipinos referred to him as “old potato face” while Americans called him “a florid, pig faced man”.   Tomobumi Yamashita was born in 1885, he was the second son of Dr. Sakichi Yamashita and Yuu Yamashita in Osugi village, on Shikoku island. Like most males of his day he was indoctrinated into military preparatory school from a young age. Yamashita had no chosen the army as a career, in his words ‘my father suggested the idea, because I was big and healthy, and my mother did not seriously object because she believed, bless her soul, that I would never pass the highly competitive entrance examination. If I had only been cleverer or had worked harder, I would have been a doctor like my brother”Yamashita would graduate from the 18th class of the IJA academy in november of 1905, ranked 16th out of 920 cadets.    In 1908 he was promoted to the rank of Lt and during WW1 he fought against Imperial German and Austro-Hungarian forces in the famous siege of Qingdao, which if you are interested I did an episode over on my Youtube channel about this battle. Its a very overlooked battle, but many histories firsts occurred at it like the first carrier attack. In 1916 he was promoted to captain and attended the 28th class of the Army War college to graduate sixth in his class that year. He also married Hisako Nagayama in 1916, she was the daughter of the retired General Nagayama.    It seems Yamashita's brush against the Germans in 1914 had a huge influence on him, because he became fascinated with Germany and would serve as assistant military attache at Bern and Berlin from 1919-1922. He spent his time in Germany alongside Captain Hideki Tojo, both men would run into each other countless times and become bitter rivals. Both men toured the western front, visiting Hamburg and witnessed first hand the crippling inflation and food prices that came from Germany's defeat. Yamashita said to Tojo then “If Japan ever has to fight any nation, she must never surrender and get herself in a state like this.” He returned to Japan in 1922, was promoted to major and served a few different posts in the Imperial Headquarters and Staff College. Yamashita became a leading member of the Kodoha faction, while Tojo became a leading member of the rival Toseiha faction. In 1927 Yamashita was sent again to Europe, this time to Vienna as a military attache. Just prior to departing he had invested in a business selling thermometers starting by one of his wife's relatives, the business failed horribly and Yamashita was tossed into debt, bailiffs literally came to seize his house. As told to us by his biographer “For a regular officer to have contracted such a debt, however innocently, was a disgrace. He felt he should resign his commission.” Yamashita's brother refused to allow him to quit, instructing him to leave for Vienna, while he resolved his debts. His days in Vienna were the best of his life, professed Yamashita. He studied economics at Vienna university and made friends with a Japanese widow, who introduced him to a German woman named Kitty and they had an affair. This would spring forward his reputation as an eccentric officer. Yamashita was obsessed over hygiene,and refused to eat fruit unless it was thoroughly washed. He avoided ice water, hated dancing and never learnt how to drive a car. One of his most notable quirks was his habit of falling asleep often during meetings where he legendarily would snore. Like I may have said in previous podcast and youtube episodes, this guy was quite a character, often described as a big bear.    Now this is not a full biography on Yamashita so I cant devolve to far into things, such as his first fall from grace. During the February 26th coup incident of 1936, Yamashita was a leading member of the Kodoha faction and helped mediate a peaceful end to the standoff, however in truth he was backing the coup. He simply managed to not get caught red handed at the time doing too much for the mutineers, regardless he lost favor with the outraged Emperor and many young captains whom he loved like sons killed themselves in disgrace. If you want to know more about the February coup of 1936, check out my series on Emperor Hirohito or General Ishawara, they both talk about it in depth and touch upon Yamashita's role a bit.    The coup led to the dissolvement of the Kodoha faction and the dominance of the Toseiha, led by Tojo. Yamashita tried to resign from the IJA, but his superiors dissuade him. He was relegated to a post in Korea, which honestly was a punishment. Yamashita would say “When I was posted to Korea, I felt I had been given a tactful promotion but that in fact my career was over. Even when I was given my first fighting company in North China, I still felt I had no future in the Army, so I was always on the front line, where the bullets flew the thickest. I sought only a place to die.”  He had some time to reflect upon his conduct while in Korea, he began to study Zen Buddhism. He was promoted to Lt General in November of 1937 and when the China war broke out he was one of those speaking out that the incident needed to end swiftly and that peaceful relations must be made with the UK and US. He received a unimportant post in the Kwantung army and in 1938 was assigned command of the IJA 4th division. He led the forces during in northern china against insurgents until he returned to Tokyo in July of 1940. His fellow officers lauded him as Japan's finest general. Meanwhile Tojo had ascended to war minister and one of his first moves was to send a delegation to Germany. Tojo considered Yamashita a ruthless and forceful commander and feared he would become a powerful rival against him one day. Yamashita would go on the record to say then “I have nothing against Tojo, but he apparently has something against me.” You see, Yamashita had no political ambitions, unlike Tojo who was by nature a political monster. “My life, is that of a soldier; I do not seek any other life unless our Emperor calls me.” In late 1940, Tojo asked Yamashita to lead a team of 40 experts on a 6 month train tour of Germany and Italy, a move that kept him out of Tokyo, because Tojo was trying to solidify his political ambitions. This is going to become a looming theme between the two men.   He was presented to Adolf Hitler in January of 1941, passing along messages from Tojo and publicly praising the Fuhrer, though privately he was very unimpressed by the man  “He may be a great orator on a platform, with his gestures and flamboyant way of speaking. But standing behind his desk listening he seems much more like a clerk.” Hitler pressed upon him to push Japan to declare war on Britain and the US. At the time of course Japan was facing China and had two major conflicts with the USSR, thus this was absolutely not in her interest. “My country is still fighting in China, and we must finish that war as soon as possible. We are also afraid that Russia may attack us in Manchuria. This is no time for us to declare war on other countries.” Yamashita hoped to inspect Germany's military techniques and technology to help Japan. Hitler promised open exchanges of information stating “All our secrets are open to you,”, but this would prove to be a lie. “There were several pieces of equipment the Germans did not want us to see. Whenever I tried to persuade the German General Staff to show us things like radar—about which we had a rudimentary knowledge—the conversation always turned to something else.”   Yamashita met with field Marshal Hermann Goring who gave him an overview of the war in europe. Goring would complain about Yamashita falling asleep during lectures and meetings and he believed the man was drunk often. Yamashita met Benito Mussolini in June of 1941 receiving a similar rundown to what he got in Germany. Yamashita visited Kitty in Vienna for a quick fling, but overall the trip deeply impacted Yamashita's resolve that Japan should stay out of the Europeans war and that Germany made a grievous error invading the USSR in June of 1941. This is what he said the members of the commission “You know the results of our inspection as well as I do. I must ask you not to express opinion in favor of expanding the alliance between Japan, Germany and Italy. Never suggest in your report that Japan should declare war on Great Britain and the United States. We must not and cannot rely upon the power of other nations. Japan needs more time, particularly as there may be aggression against us from Russia. We must have time to rebuild our defense system and adjust the whole Japanese war machine. I cannot repeat this to you often enough.” His report was similar, and it really pissed off Tojo who was trying to develop plans for a war against America. Yamashita would then get exiled to Manchuria in July of 1941, but Tojo's resentment towards him could only go so far, because Yamashita was one of their best generals and in his planned war against Britain and America, he would need such a man.   Yamashita's time in Europe reshaped his views on how to conduct war. He saw first hand blitzkrieg warfare, it seems it fascinated him. He consistently urged the implementation of new proposals calling for the streamlining of air arms; to mechanize the Army; to integrate control of the armed forces in a defense ministry coordinated by a chairman of Joint Chiefs of staff; to create a paratroop corps and to employ effective propaganda. Basically he saw what was working for the Germans against the allies and wanted Japan to replicate it. Tojo did not like many of the proposal, hated the fact they were coming from Yamashita, so he obviously was not keen on making them happen. Luckily for Yamashita he would be given a chance to implement some of his ideas in a big way.   On November 6th of 1941, Lt General Yamashita was appointed commander of the 25th Japanese army. His orders were to seize the Malay Peninsula and then the British naval base at Singapore. The Malaya Peninsula snakes 700 miles south of Thailand, a rugged sliver of land that constricts at its narrowest point to about 60 miles wide. It hold mountains that split the peninsula in half, some going as high as 7000 feet. During this time Malaya produced around 40% of the worlds rubber, 60% of its tin, two resources vital for war. At its very southern tip lies Singapore, a diamond shaped island connected to the mainland by a 1115 stone causeway. Singapore's largest asset was its naval base guarding the passage from the Pacific and Indian oceans. Together Malay and Singapore represented the key to controlling what Japan called the Southern Resource Area.   Singapore was known as the gibraltar of the east for good reason. It was a massively fortified naval base. The base had been developed between 1923-1938 and cost 60 million pounds, around 2 billion pounds today. It was 21 square miles, had the largest dry dock in the world, the 3rd largest floating dock and enough fuel tanks to support the entire royal navy for 6 months. She was defended by 15 inch naval guns stationed at the Johre battery, Changi and Buona vista battery. And despite the infamous myth some of you may have heard, these guns were fully capable of turning in all directions including the mainland. For those unaware a myth perpetuated after the fall of Singapore that her large 15 inch guns could not turn to the mainland and that this spelt her doom, no it was not that, it was the fact they mostly had armor piercing shells which are using to hit ships and not land targets. Basically if you fire an armor piercing shell at land it imbeds itself then explodes, while HE shells would have torn any Japanese army to pieces. Alongside the 15 inch monsters, there were countless other artillery pieces such as 9.2 inch guns. By December of 1941 Malaya and Singapore held 164 first line aircraft out of a total of 253 aircraft, but many of the fighters were the obsolete Brewster F2A Buffalo, a pretty slow, fat little beast that could take a licking as it was armored, but against the Zero fighter it was unbelievably outmatched in speed and maneuverability.    The Japanese acquired a major gift prior to the outbreak of war. On november 11th, 1940, the SS Automedon, a German raider attacked the HMS Atlantis which was carrying documents intended for the British far east command. The documents indicated the British fleet was not going to help Singapore; that Britain would not declare war if Thailand was invaded and that Hong Kong was expendable. The Germans gave the documents to the Japanese who were very excited by the information.    Starting in January of 1941, Colonel Masanobu Tsuji led the Taiwan Army Research section based on Formosa to investigate how a campaign could be waged in Malay and Singapore. His findings on the defenses of Malay and Singapore were summed up in these 3 points: 1. Singapore Fortress was solid and strong facing the sea, but vulnerable on the peninsular side facing the Johore Strait;  Newspaper reports of a strong Royal Air Force (RAF) presence were propaganda;  Although British forces in Malaya numbered from five to six divisions (well over 80,000 men), less than half were Europeans.    Now just a little bit about Tsuji as he was to become the chief of staff operations and planning under Yamashita. Tsuji was extremely insubordinate and a political schemer. He was a Toseiha faction fanatic, loyal to Tojo and thus definitely an enemy to Yamashita. Yamashita wrote of Tsuji in his war diary “is egotistical and wily. He is a sly dog and unworthy to serve the country. He is a manipulator to be carefully watched.” Tsuji would go on to have a infamous reputation for ordering atrocities in the name of his superiors, often without them knowing and this would be very much the case under Yamashita. Now using Tsuji's intelligence Yamashita began plans at his HQ at Samah, a port on Hainan island, starting in November of 1941 on how to launch the campaign. He was initially offered 5 divisions for the invasion, but he felt he could accomplish the objective with only three. There are a few reasons why he believed this; first, Tsuji's research suggested the peninsula roads would be the center of the battlefront and that the flanks would extend no more than a km or so to the left or right due to the dense jungle terrain (in fact Yamashita was planning to assault from the jungle specifically); 2nd intelligence indicated the defending troops were not of the highest caliber (the British were busy in Europe thus many of the troops in southeast asia were poorly trained, half were british regulars the rest were Australian, Indian and Malayan); 3rd Yamashita was aware “the Japanese army were in the habit of flinging more troops into the battle than could possibly be maintained” boy oh boy tell that one to the future boys on Guadalcanal. Thus he calculated 3 divisions was the maximum to be fed, equipped and supplied. Based on his recommendations the 25th army was created with 3 divisions; the 5th under Lt General Takuma Matsui; 18th under Lt General Renya Mutaguchi and the Imperial guards division of Lt General Takuma Nishimura. Supporting these would be two regiment of heavy field artillery and the 3rd tank brigade. Something that made Yamashita's campaign quite interesting was the usage and amount of tanks. He was invading with around 200 or so tanks consisting of the Type 95 Ha-Go light tank, type 97 Chi-Ha and Type 89 I-Go medium tanks and Type 97 Te-Ke tankettes. For aircraft he had the 3rd Air division, 459 aircraft strong with an additional 159 aircraft from the IJN to support them. The 3rd air division had a variety of aircraft such as Nakajima Ki-27 Nate's, Nakajima ki-43 Oscars, Kitsubishi ki-51 Sonia's, Kawasaki ki-48 Lily's, Mitsubishi ki-21 sally's, Mitsubishi ki-30 Ann's, Mitsubishi ki-15 babs and Mitsubishi ki-46 dinahs. For the IJN it was the 22nd air flotilla using Mitsubishi G3M1 Nell's, Mitsubishi A5M4 Claudes and some A6M Zeros. To say it was a lot of firepower at his disposal is an understatement, Yamashita was packing heat, heat he could use in a blitzkrieg fashion.   His staff at Samah identified 5 operational objectives: 1 Simultaneous capture of Singora and Patani, Thailand and Kota Bharu, Malaya.  2 Capture of all enemy airfields in southern Thailand and Malaya.  3 Occupation of Kuala Lumpur, Malaya.  4 Occupation of Johore Bahru, and control of Johore Strait.  5 Conquest of Singapore.    Colonel Tsuji, appointed Chief of Operations and Planning for the 25th Army, proposed the following plan which was readily approved:  Land the main strength of the 5th Division simultaneously and without warning at Singora and Patani, and at the same time land a powerful section of the 18th Division to attack Kota Bharu.  The troops disembarked at Singora and Patani to press forward immediately to attack the line of the Perak River Hand capture its bridge and the Alor Star aerodrome.  The troops landed at Kota Bharu to press forward along the eastern coast as far as Kuantan.    The landing at Kota Bharu, the only one in Malaya was expected to be opposed and quite risky. But if it was successful, it would create a useful diversion away from the main force landings in Thailand.   The landings took place around 2:15am local time on December 8th, about an hour and 20 minutes before the attack on Pearl Harbor. The landings went largely unopposed, except at Kota Bahru where the Japanese saw heavy resistance. The British had anticipated this landing point and created operation Matador, a plan to pre-emptively invade southern thailand to secure defensive lines against the Japanese, however this plan was never accepted by British high command for obvious political reasons. But on December 5th, with a Japanese invasion looking certain, suddenly London gave permission to the Far east commanders to decide if Operation matador should be activated or not. The commander in Malaya, General Arthur Percival recommended forestalling it, fearing to violate Thai sovereignty, which ultimately would be the doom of a defense for Malaya.   At the battle of Kota Bharu, the 9th infantry division of Major General Barstow attempted holding off the Japanese from taking the important Kota Bharu airfield. The 8th brigade of Billy Key had fortified the beaches with pillboxes, barbed wire and land mines. The Japanese took heavy losses, but they were able to find gaps and fill them up until Brigadier Key had to ask permission to pull out. The royal air force at Kota Bharu tossed Hudson bombers to hit the troop transports, but it was a suicide mission to do so. Meanwhile the IJA 5th division landed at Pattani and Songkhla in Thailand while the Imperial guards division marched over the border from French Indochina. The Japanese encountered very little resistance, the leader of Thailand Plaek Pibulsonggram had been trying to get assurances from the allies and Japanese all the way up until the invasion, once the Japanese landed he knew his best option was to play nice and sign an armistice. This basically spelt doom for malaya as the Japanese were given access to Thailand's airfields which they used to smash the forward airfields in Malaya.   The first day of aerial encounters were a catastrophe for the British. General Percival would comment “The rapidity with which the Japanese got their air attacks going against our aerodromes was quite remarkable. Practically all the aerodromes in Kelantan, Kedah, Province Wellesley, and Penang, were attacked, and in most cases fighters escorted the bombers. The performance of Japanese aircraft of all types, and the accuracy of their bombing, came as an unpleasant surprise. By the evening our own air force had already been seriously weakened.” Brigadier Key withdrew after causing an estimated 800 casualties upon the Japanese while taking roughly 465. While Kota Bharu was being fought over, Percival unleashed Operation Krohcol, a 2.0 of Matador seeing British forces cross into Thailand to intercept the incoming enemy. It was an absolute disaster, the British attackers were defeated not only by the Japanese 5th division, but some Royal Thai police also defended their territory. The operation had basically become a race to who could seize the important focal point first and the Japanese took it first thus winning decisively. To add to that misery, force Z, consisting of the battleship HMS Prince of Wales,, battlecruiser Repulse and 4 destroyers tried to intercept the Japanese invasion fleet only to be utterly destroyed by overwhelming Japanese airforces.   Within 4 days of the landings, the 5th division advanced from Singora through the town of Jitra to capture the RAF airfield at Alor star, around 100 miles away. Yamashita managed this using flanking techniques that saw his army take town after town and airfield after airfield. There were numerous natural obstacles to the advance such as dense jungles, very long supply lines, torrential rain and heat, but he had a secret weapon, bicycles. At Jitra Percival made his first major stand. Holding Jitra would safeguard the northern airfields of Malaya, but it was a folly to do so as the airfields in question were not provided adequate aircraft and the British lacked something extremely important to be able to defend themselves, tanks. Colonel Tsuji saw the fighting at Jitra first hand and reported “Our tanks were ready on the road, and the twenty or so enemy armored cars ahead were literally trampled underfoot … The enemy armored cars could not escape by running away, and were sandwiched between our medium tanks … It was speed and weight of armor that decided the issue.” The British had spread themselves far too thinly across a 14 mile front with jungle on their right flank and rubber plantations and mangrove swamps to their left. Yamashita used a innovative blitzkrieg like tactic, he combined his air, artillery, tanks and bicycle infantry to punch holes in concentrated attacks forcing allied defenders to withdraw. As Percival would write later in his memoirs “This withdrawal would have been difficult under the most favorable conditions. With the troops tired, units mixed as the result of the fighting, communications broken and the night dark, it was inevitable that orders should be delayed and that in some cases they should never reach the addressees. This is what in fact occurred … the withdrawal, necessary as it may have been, was too fast and too complicated for disorganized and exhausted troops, whose disorganization and exhaustion it only increased”    Yamashita had ingeniously thought of employing large numbers of bicycles for his infantry so they could keep up momentum and speed with his mechanized forces. Oh and he didn't bring thousands of bicycles over to Malaya, the real genius was that they were there ready for him. His intelligence prior to the invasion indicated nearly all civilians in malaya had bicycles, so when the Japanese came over they simply stole them. Half of Yamashitas troops moved in motor vehicles while the rest road on 18,000 bicycles. As noted by Tsuji “With the infantry on bicycles, there was no traffic congestion or delay. Wherever bridges were destroyed the infantry continued their advance, wading across the rivers carrying their bicycles on their shoulders, or crossing on log bridges held up on the shoulders of engineers standing in the stream.” They Japanese overwhelmed the defenders who were forced to fight, flee into the jungles or flee along the roads where they were simply outsped by the faster Japanese. The defenders left numerous stores of food, abandoned vehicles, and supplies that Yamashita's men would dub “churchill's allowance”. British Lt Colonel Spencer Chapmanwas forced to hide on the sides of roads watching Japanese pedal past remarking “The majority were on bicycles in parties of forty or fifty, riding three or four abreast and talking and laughing just as if they were going to a football match.” The Japanese had the ability to carry their gear on the bicycles, giving them an enormous advantage over the allies fleeing on foot. The Japanese could travel faster, further and less fatigued. When the British destroyed 250 bridges during their flight, “the Japanese infantry (to continue) their advance, wading across the rivers carrying their bicycles on their shoulders, or crossing on log bridges held up on the shoulders of engineers standing in the stream”. The British could not escape the bicycle blitzkrieg as it became known, countless were forced to surrender under constant pressure and relentless pursuit.    Alongside the bicycle warfare, whenever Yamashita faced terrain unsuitable for his tanks, he ordered amphibious landings further south to outflank the enemy's  rear.   Meanwhile the war in the air went equally terrible for the allies. The RAF had pulled back its best pilots and aircraft to deal with the war for Britain against the Luftwaffe. 21 airfields were in Malaya and Singapore, few of them had modern facilities, only 15 concrete runways. The heavy rain made the grass airstrips unusable. All the airfields were allocated around 8 heavy and 8 light anti aircraft guns. Quality radar units were completely inadequate. The Super Spitfires and Hyper Hurricanes were mostly in Britain fighting the Germans, while Buffaloes were allocated to Malaya. The Japanese airforces easily overcame the allied opposition and established air superiority quickly. Launching from airfields in Vietnam, they bombed all the airfields into submission and continuously applied pressure to Singapore. . The aerial dominance of the Zero and ‘Oscar' fighters served to undermine the morale of the British infantryman on the ground. As historian H. P. Wilmot has observed, “in the opening phase of the war the Zero-sen was just what the Japanese needed, and the Allies were devastated by the appearance of a ‘super fighter.' To add insult to injury, every airfield taken starting at the most northern going further and further south towards Singapore offered the Japanese new launching points to make for faster attack.   Yamashita's forces reached the southern tip of the peninsula in just 8 weeks, his men had covered some 700 miles, about 12 miles a day on average. They fought 95 large and smaller battles doing so. Multiple lines of defense were erected one after another to try and halt the Japanese advance, to kill their momentum. Starting at the beach landings, to Jitra, then to Kampar, over the Slim river, then Johor. The British failed to employ “leave behind forces” to provide guerilla warfare in lost territories leading not only the Japanese to easily consolidate their gains, the Thai's also came down and grabbed some territory. At the battle of Muar Major General Gordon Bennet deployed the allied defenders south of the Muar River and it was widely believed here they would finally halt the Japanese. Then the Imperial Guards division outflanked them performing an amphibious landing and advancing down the coastal route. The 5th Japanese division followed a parallel route through the center and the 18th division landed near Endau. The allies were thus surrounded and took heavy casualties, countless were forced to flee through swamps and thick jungle abandoned their stuff. Gordons 45th brigade were absolutely shattered, effectively disbanded and left north of the Muar river as the rest of the allies fled south. The defeat at Muar broke the British belief they could hold even a toehold on Malay. Percivals strategy to fight delaying actions until the arrival of reinforcements to Singapore had fatally undermined his troops ability to hold onto defensive positions. As the British governor of the Johore straits settlement, Sir Shenton Thomas would say on January 6th ‘“We … have gone in for mechanized transport to the nth degree. It is a fearsomely cumbersome method. We have pinned our faith to the few roads but the enemy used tracks and paths, and gets round to our rear very much as he likes.”” Yet alongside the conquest came a series of atrocities.    At the Parit Sulong Bridge south of the Muar, Captain Rewi Snelling was left behind with 150 wounded Australian and Indian soldiers not able to trek south. The Imperial guards division herded them into buildings, denied them medical treatment, many of the Indians were beheaded, others shot. This become known as the parit sulong massacre. Its hard to saw what Yamashita would have known about this incident, it technically was under the command of Takuma nishimura. On January 22nd, Nishimura gave the orders for prisoners to be forced outside, doused with petrol and set on fire. Nishimura would be sentenced to life in prison by a Singapore court, but on a flight back to Japan he was hijacked by Australian military police in Hong Kong who grabbed him and held a trial for the Parit Sulong massacre, finding him guilty and hanging him on june 11th of 1951.    When the Japanese reached the straits of Johore, Yamashita took several days to perform reconnaissance, allowing his forces to regroup and prepare to attack the massive fortress. His plan for the invasion would see the Imperial guards perform a feint attack on the northeast side of Singapore, landing on the nearby Palau Ubin island on february 7th. The 5th and 18th division would remain concealed in the jungle until the night of the night of the 8th when they would cross the Johore and hit the northwest side of Singapore. The causeway to Singapore had been blown up by the retreating British, but the ability for Singapore to defend itself from a northern attack was lackluster. When Churchill was told by Wavell the Japanese sat on the other side of the Johore strait ready to attack the fortress he said ““I must confess to being staggered by Wavell's telegram. It never occurred to me for a moment that … Singapore … was not entirely fortified against an attack from the Northwards …””   With barely enough supplies or logistical support for his campaign, Yamashita's rapid advance down the Malay peninsula walked a tightrope of what was possible. His 70,000 men of which 30,000 were frontline troops had overcome a British force double their number. In Japan he garnered the epithet “Tiger of Malaya”, which ironically he was not too happy about. Later on in the war he would bark at a German attache “I am not a tiger. The tiger attacks its prey in stealth but I attack the enemy in a fair play”.   By this point Singapore had swollen from a population of 550,000to nearly a million. Percival had a total of 70,000 infantry of mixed experience plus 15,000 clerks and support staff to man lines if necessary. 38 battalions, 17 Indian, 13 British, 6 Australian and 2 Malayan. He placed his weakest troops west of the causeway, near the abandoned naval base rather than nearby the airfield which he considered was going to be Yamashita's thrust. He placed his best forces over there, which would prove fatally wrong as Yamashita hit west of the causeway. Yamashita meanwhile could only muster 30,000 troops, he was outnumbered 2:1 and amphibious assaults called for the attacker to hold a 2:1 advantage for success. Yamashita's men were exhausted, they had suffered 4565 casualties, roughly 1793 deaths in their 55 day advance south. Worse yet, Yamashita had a critical supply issue. He had greatly exceeded his supply lines and had been surviving on the abandoned churchill stores along the way. His ammunition was critical low, it is said he was down to 18 functional tanks, allowing his men to fire 100 rounds per day, the fuel ran out, and as Yamashita put it “My attack on Singapore was a bluff—a bluff that worked. I had 30,000 men and was outnumbered more than three to one. I knew that if I had to fight for long for Singapore, I would be beaten. That is why the surrender had to be at once. I was very frightened all the time that the British would discover our numerical weakness and lack of supplies and force me into disastrous street fighting.” He told his men of the 5th and 18th division not to build any cooking fires so they could conceal their positions in the jungle as he gathered hundreds of collapsible boats and other crafts to ford the strait. He gathered 40 divisional commanders and senior officers to a rubber plantation and with a flushed red face read out his attack orders while pouring them Kikumasamune (ceremonial wine). He made a traditional toast and said “It is a good place to die; surely we shall conquer”. He had to get the British to surrender quickly, he had to essentially ‘bluff” his enemy. He had to make the British think he was fully armed and supplied for a prolonged siege, how could he do so? He fired his artillery like a mad man, knowing full well they would run out of shells.   Starting on February 3rd,  Yamashita's artillery supported by aerial bombings hit Singapore for 5 days. On the night of the 7th, 400 Imperial Guards crossed to the Ibin island performing their feint attack. Percivals attention was grabbed to the east successfully, while on the night of the 8th the 5th and 18th divisions assembled carefully at the water's edge. At 8:30pm the first wave of 4000 Japanese troops crossed the Johore strait aboard 150 small vessels. The noise of their engines was drowned out by artillery. The thinly spread Australian lines, 3000 or so men led by Major General Bennet were breached fast leading to pockets of surrounded australian troops. As Lewis Gunner cliff olsen recalled “We were horribly spread out and it was pitch black and they [Japanese troops] were very hard to see. They walked through us half the time.” A beachhead was formed, a soon 14,000 Japanese had crossed by dawn.    Communications broke down for the allies, Percival unwilling to believe the Japanese's main thrust was in the west declined to send reinforcements there. When he did finally realize the main thrust was in the west he began to withdraw troops from quiet sectors and built up a reserve. The Japanese held air supremacy and their artillery was fierce. The big 15 inch guns of singapore held mostly armor piercing shells designed to hit ships, there were few HE shells available. When they fired upon the Japanese the shells would hit the ground they would embed deeply before exploding doing little damage. The defenders had no tanks, basically no more aircraft. The last departing ships fled the scene as everything was burning chaos around them. Morale was breaking for the defenders. By the 9th, Japanese bombers were raining bombs on allied positions unopposed. Bennet was forced to pull men back to a new line of defense from the east of the Tengah airfield to the north of Jurong. Poor communications hampered the northern sector of Brigadier Duncan Maxwell whose troops actually battered the hell out of the Imperial Guards who had landed at 10pm on the 9th. The Imperial guards gradually managed a foothold on a beach, but Maxwell feared encirclement and withdrew his men against direct orders of Bennet. The retreat opened up the flank of the 11th indian division who were overrun. All of the beaches west of the causeway fell to the enemy, when they did Yamashita brought over his tanks to smash the new Jurong line. The Japanese could have potentially stormed the city center at this point, but they held back, because in reality, Percival had created a formidable reserve in the middle. The Australian 22nd brigade took the brunt of the fighting.    Yamashita was running out of reserves and his attacks were reaching their limit, but he needed the battle to end swiftly. Yamashita was shocked and shaken when he received a report that the British troop strength within the city was twice what they believed. With covert desperation, Yamashita ordered his artillery to fire until their last rounds and sent Percival a demand for surrender. “In the spirit of chivalry we have the honour of advising your surrender. Your army, founded on the traditional spirit of Great Britain, is defending Singapore, which is completely isolated, and raising the fame of Great Britain by the ut¬ most exertions and heroic feelings. . . . From now on resistance is futile and merely increases the danger to the million civilian inhabitants without good reason, exposing them to infliction of pain by fire and sword. But the development of the general war situation has already sealed the fate of Singapore, and the continuation of futile resistance would only serve to inflict direct harm and in¬ juries to thousands of non-combatants living in the city, throwing them into further miseries and horrors of war. Furthermore we do not feel you will in¬ crease the fame of the British Army by further resistance.”   Singapore had received another order prior to this from Churchill “It is certain that our troops on Singapore Island greatly outnumber any Japanese that have crossed the Straits. We must defeat them. Our whole fighting reputation is at stake and the honour of the British Empire. The Americans have held out on the Bataan Peninsula against far greater odds, the Russians are turning back the picked strength of the Germans, the Chinese with almost complete lack of mod¬ ern equipment have held the Japanese for AVi years. It will be disgraceful if we yield our boasted fortress of Singapore to inferior enemy forces. There must be no thought ofsparing troops or the civil population and no mercy must be shown to weakness in any shape or form. Commanders and senior officers must lead their troops and if necessary die with them. There must be no question or thought of surrender. Every unit must fight it out to the end and in close contact with the enemy. ... I look to you and your men to fight to the end to prove that the fighting spirit that won our Empire still exists to enable us to defend it.”   What was Percival to do? The Japanese had seized control over Singapore water reservoirs, the population would die of thirst within 2-3 days. Japanese shells were causing fires and death everywhere. People were panicking, trying to get on the very last boats leaving the port, even though that surely meant death to the IJN. An American sailor recalled “There was a lot of chaos and people killed on the docks during these bombardments. Everywhere you looked there was death. Even in the water there were dead sharks and people floating all around.” Defeatism was endemic. Australian troops were overheard saying “Chum, to hell with Malaya and Singapore. Navy let us down, air force let us down. If the bungs [natives] won't fight for their bloody country, why pick on me?” Sensing a complete collapse Percival formed a tight defense arc in front of the city, and by the 13th his commanders were telling him they believed Singapore was already doomed. Wavell was asked for approval for surrender, but he replied  “to continue to inflict maximum damage on enemy for as long as possible by house-to-house fighting if necessary.” Percival then told him the water reservoirs were taken, so Wavell sent back “YOUR GALLANT STAND IS SERVING A PURPOSE AND MUST BE CONTINUED TO THE LIMIT OF ENDURANCE”   On the 15th, Percival held a morning conference reported there was no more fuel, field gun nor bofor ammunition. In 24 hours their water would be done. He told them he would ask for a ceasefire at 4pm, by the end of the day Wavell gave him permission to surrender. Over at his HQ on the Bukit Timah heights, Yamashita was staring at a Union Jack fluttering over Fort Canning. Then a field phone rang, and a frontline commander reported the British were sending out a flag of truce.   Meanwhile back on February the 14th, Japanese forces reached the Alexandra Barracks hospital at 1pm. At 1:40pm a British Lt greeting them waving a white flag and was bayoneted on the spot. The Japanese stormed the hospital and murdered the staff and patients. 200 male staff and patients, badly wounded were bound over night and marched to an industrial estate half a mile away. Anyone who collapsed was bayoneted. The survivors of the march were formed into small groups and hacked to death or bayoneted. For a few days over 320 men and women were massacred. Only 5 survivors would give recounts of the event. It is suspected by historians that Tsuji was the architect of the Alexandra hospital massacre. This is because he was the instigator of countless atrocities he ordered unbeknownst to his superior commanders such as Yamashita.    Percival was ordered to go to the Ford motor factory to where he met with Yamashita. Yamashita was hiding his surprise that the surrender party came and as he glanced at the surrender terms he said through his interpreter “The Japanese Army will consider nothing but surrender,” Yamashita knew his forces were on the verge of running out of ammunition and he still held half troops Percival did, he was anxious Percival would figure it out. Percival replied “I fear that we shall not be able to submit our final reply before ten-thirty p.m.,” Percival had no intention of fighting on he simply wanted to work out specific details before signing the surrender. Yamashita was sure Percival was stalling. “Reply to us only whether our terms are acceptable or not. Things must be settled swiftly. We are prepared to resume firing.Unless you do surrender, we will have to carry out our night attack as scheduled.”” Percival replied ““Cannot the Japanese Army remain in its present position? We can resume negotiations again tomorrow at five-thirty A.M”. Yamashita screamed “Nani! I want the hostilities to cease tonight and I want to remind you there can be no arguments.” Percival replied ““We shall discontinue firing by eight-thirty p.m. Had we better remain in our present positions tonight?” Yamashita said yes and that firing would cease at 8:30pm and that 1000 allied men could keep arms to maintain order within the city. Yamashita stated “You have agreed to the terms but you have not yet made yourself clear as to whether you agree to surrender or not.” Percival cleared his throat and gave a simple nod. Yamashita looked at his interpreter “There's no need for all this talk. It is a simple question and I want a simple answer.” He turned to Percival and shouted, “We want to hear ‘Yes' or ‘No' from you! Surrender or fight!” Percival finally blurted out  “Yes, I agree. I have a request to make. Will the Imperial Army protect the women and children and British civilians?”Yamashita replied  “We shall see to it. Please sign this truce agreement”. At 7:50 the surrender was signed off, 40 minutes later Singapore was in the hands of the Japanese. In 70 days Yamashita took at the cost of 9824 casualties, had seized Malaya and Singapore, nearly 120,000 British surrendered. It was the greatest land victory in Japanese history.   Churchill called the fall of Singapore to the Japanese "the worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history" Churchills physician Lord Moran wrote The fall of Singapore on February 15 stupefied the Prime Minister. How came 100,000 men (half of them of our own race) to hold up their hands to inferior numbers of Japanese? Though his mind had been gradually prepared for its fall, the surrender of the fortress stunned him. He felt it was a disgrace. It left a scar on his mind. One evening, months later, when he was sitting in his bathroom enveloped in a towel, he stopped drying himself and gloomily surveyed the floor: 'I cannot get over Singapore', he said sadly   With the fall of singapore came another atrocity, the Sook Ching massacre. After February 18th, the Japanese military began mass killings of what they deemed undesirables, mostly ethnic Chinese. It was overseen by the Kempeitai and did not stop in Singapore, but spread to Malaya. It seems the aim of the purge was to intimidate the Chinese community from performing any resistance. According to postwar testimony taken from a war correspondent embedded with the 25th army, Colonel Hishakari Takafumi, he stated an order went out to kill 50,000 Chinese, of which 20 percent of the total was issued by senior officials on Yamashita's operations staff, most likely Tsuji. It is certain at the behest of Tsuji the orders were extended to Malay. The death toll is a tricky one, the Japanese went on the record to admit to 6000 murders, the Singaporean Chinese community and the Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew allege 70,000-100,000. Historians analyzing the scale of discovered mass graves after some decades think around 25,000-50,000. How much Yamashita knew of the massacre is debatable, the orders came from his office after all, but it seems Tsuji had orchestrated it. Many of Japan's generals wanted Yamashita to be appointed war minister, a move that obviously threatened then Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, who feared his rival. Tojo retaliated, ordering Japan's new war hero back to Manchuria. On the surface, the assignment appeared worthy as Yamashita would serve as the first line of defense against a possible Soviet invasion. But since the two nations had signed a neutrality pact in April 1941, and Soviets were bogged down fighting the Germans, immediate war appeared unlikely. In reality, Tojo had parked Yamashita on the war's sidelines. Tojo went even further, he barred Yamashita any leave in Tokyo, preventing him from visiting his wife as well as from delivering a speech he had written for the emperor. No worries though, an aide of Yamashita's sent him three geishas. Allegedly he said this “I know they want to please me with these girls. But send them back—and don't forget to tip them.” The Tiger of Malaya would maintain a low profile in Manchuria where he received a promotion to full General. As months fell to years Yamashita sat on the sidelines helpless to aid the Japanese forces. His exile would come to an end in 1944 when Tojo was outed and the Tiger was required to try and save the Philippines from General Douglas MacArthur.

Some links are affiliate links. See our disclosure. Here's the link to the exact tour we booked. It included the entrance to the Petronas Twin Towers. What We Cover in This Episode In this episode, we share with you our journey through Kuala Lumpur, exploring its rich culture, historical landmarks, and delicious cuisine. Guided by a local, Nish, we delve into the city's history, visit significant sites like the National Mosque and Petronas Twin Towers, and enjoy authentic Malaysian dishes. Their experience highlights the importance of understanding a city through the eyes of its residents, making for an unforgettable adventure. Resources & Links Want curated travel deals every week? Subscribe to Travel Deal Insiders — the best travel deals sent straight to your inbox. Get Our Ultimate Packing Guide for Traveling Smart and Packing Light + Access to Exclusive Weekly Content here. Don't waste your precious vacation time with Jet Lag, get Flykitt and watch Jet Lag disappear! Protect your privacy, boost your security, and keep your browsing data safe with Express VPN. Plus, get 3 months free with a yearly plan. Follow Sunshine Travelers Listen on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Read more about this and other travel destinations on our BLOG Follow our travels on TikTok @sunshinetravelerspodcast Follow us on X @sunshinetrvlrs Connect with us on LinkedIn @sunshinetravelerspodcast Get travel tips and follow our travels on Instagram: @sunshinetravelerspodcast Connect with us on Threads @sunshinetravelerspodcast Connect with us on Threads See our travel videos on YouTube @sunshinetravelerspodcast Save our travel ideas on Pinterest @sunshinetravelerspodcast Music: This Acoustic Happy Music by Dmitrii Kolesnikov from Pixabay

Preached at Calvary Church 2025, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 

Preached at Calvary Church 2025, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 

Preached at Calvary Church 2025, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 

Preached at Calvary Church 2025, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 

Our guest today is Danika, a Canadian author, traveler, and dance instructor who traded a conventional career path in sciences for a life of exploration and creativity. Moving abroad to teach internationally led her to unexpected opportunities—like teaching ballet in Iraq. Her travel memoir, 'One Year and a One-Way Ticket', shares her journey of self-discovery through solo travel and breaking expectations. Her work has been featured in Intrepid Times, Go World Travel Magazine, and more. Today, she's here to share her insights on solo female travel safety, adventure, and making space for authenticity—welcome, Danika! Host: Katie Koestner Editor: Evan Mader Producers Catrina Aglubat and Emily Wang

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Our first stop in Asia was nothing short of unforgettable. In this episode, we take you with us to Lombok, Indonesia—just east of Bali—where we spent one of the most meaningful travel days of our lives. From learning traditional weaving techniques in a quiet village to riding motorbikes through a rainforest (crutches and all), and snorkeling with clownfish off the Gili Islands, this day was packed with adventure, connection, and soul. It was the kind of day that reminded us exactly why we travel—and why Indonesia is so much more than Bali. Some links are affiliate links. See our disclosure. Help Support the Podcast by Buying us a Coffee ☕️ Book the Private Tour we did in Lombok with Andy Lombok Driver Other Related Episodes You'll Love: Episode 140 - Lombok, Indonesia: What Bali Was Like Before the Crowds Episode 142 - Discovering Malaysia: Insider Tips on Kuala Lumpur and Penang with Colin + Meg What You'll Discover in This Episode: What it felt like stepping onto Asian soil for the first time How we planned a private, authentic tour in Lombok (and why we skipped the cruise excursion) Getting strapped into a loom and weaving with the women of a local village The wild motorbike ride that left us breathless and laughing in disbelief Scott's heartwarming chat with locals using Google Translate Hiking (and not hiking) to the stunning Kelambu Waterfalls The moment we climbed onto the roof of a traditional jukung boat Snorkeling off the Gili Islands with thousands of fish—and unexpected clownfish The GoPro deal of a lifetime (complete with a private underwater photographer!) Why our lunch of nasi goreng and homemade sambal was worth the trip alone Dodging a missed cruise departure—and what to know if you're booking excursions on your own How Indonesia welcomed us in ways we never expected—and why we can't wait to return Destinations Covered in this Episode: Lombok, Indonesia Kelambu Waterfalls Gili Islands Traditional Weaving Village in Lombok Local beachside warung (restaurant) Helpful Links and Travel Resources Want curated travel deals every week? Subscribe to Travel Deal Insiders — the best travel deals sent straight to your inbox. Get Our Ultimate Packing Guide for Traveling Smart and Packing Light + Access to Exclusive Weekly Content here. Don't waste your precious vacation time with Jet Lag, get Flykitt and watch Jet Lag disappear! Protect your privacy, boost your security, and keep your browsing data safe with Express VPN. Plus, get 3 months free with a yearly plan. Follow Sunshine Travelers Listen on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Read more about this and other travel destinations on our BLOG Follow our travels on TikTok @sunshinetravelerspodcast Follow us on X @sunshinetrvlrs Connect with us on LinkedIn @sunshinetravelerspodcast Get travel tips and follow our travels on Instagram: @sunshinetravelerspodcast Connect with us on Threads @sunshinetravelerspodcast Connect with us on Threads See our travel videos on YouTube @sunshinetravelerspodcast Save our travel ideas on Pinterest @sunshinetravelerspodcast Music: This Acoustic Happy Music by Dmitrii Kolesnikov from Pixabay

What life is like in the newsrooms and on the beat for LGBTQ+ reporters in a time when there's too much news and fewer jobs, according to Los Angeles chapter co-presidents Hansen Bursic and Katie Karl of NLGJA: the Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists (in a roundtable with This Way Out's Lucia Chappelle, interviewed by Brian DeShazor). Plus the reign of a lesbian queen, two music halls, human rights milestones, Southern Hemisphere civil unions and more in The Rainbow Rewind (produced by Brian DeShazor and Sheri Lunn). And in NewsWrap: a raid on an alleged “gay male sauna sex party” in Kuala Lumpur another kind of bust when all 200 arrestees are released without charges, all 27 European Union member nations must recognize the civil marriages of same-gender couples legally performed in any other E.U. member nation under a landmark ruling by the Court of Justice, a ruling in Tokyo's High Court contradicting four previous district court decisions in favor of marriage equality sends the issue to Japan's Supreme Court, the United Kingdom's Women's Institute is being forced to require new and renewing members to confirm that they were documented female at birth, Reverend Dr. Phillippa Phaneuf tells the North Chili United Methodist Church in upstate New York “I'm giving up pretending to be a man,” and more international LGBTQ+ news reported this week by Melanie Keller and John Dyer V (produced by Brian DeShazor). All this on the December 8, 2025 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Disappearance | Paranormal Podcast In this episode, we dive deep into one of aviation's most perplexing mysteries: the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. On March 8, 2014, the Boeing 777 vanished from radar just 40 minutes after takeoff with 239 people on board, scheduled to fly from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. We walk through the timeline of that fateful night—from the captain's routine "good night" at 1:00 AM to the plane disappearing completely at 1:20 AM—and explore the frantic scramble that followed as Malaysian officials, search teams, and grieving families desperately sought answers. What makes this case so compelling is the mountain of conflicting evidence: military radar detected an unidentified object crossing Malaysian airspace in a bizarre zigzag pattern, satellite systems pinged the aircraft for six hours after it vanished, and family members reported that calls to passengers' phones rang instead of going straight to voicemail. We examine multiple theories that have emerged over the past decade, each with its own compelling evidence and glaring holes. From the discovery of a suspicious flight simulator in the pilot's home that matched the plane's alleged route, to debris found on beaches thousands of miles away, to claims of Russian hijackers and American military involvement—nothing adds up cleanly. We discuss the work of independent investigators, including a group of engineers who theorized how someone could deliberately make a jetliner disappear, and "Cindy" from the Tomnodders who claims to have found wreckage in the South China Sea that was largely ignored.

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US President Donald Trump has overseen the signing of an agreement between Thailand and Cambodia to normalise relations after their short border conflict earlier this year. We'll hear from our Southeast Asia correspondent Jonathan Head who is in Kuala Lumpur.Also in the programme: Police in France have detained at least one man in connection with the theft of millions of dollars of jewels from the Louvre museum; and voting has begun in Argentina in midterm elections that are being seen as a de facto referendum on the president Javier Milei. (Picture: U.S. President Donald Trump applauds as Thailand's Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Manet hold up a ceasefire deal in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on October 26, 2025. Credit: REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein)

Follow me on X (@chinaadventures) where I post new China city prayer profiles every single day. Send any notes or comments to bfwesten at gmail dot com and find much more, including my missionary biographies, at PrayGiveGo.us! Today I begin by discussing Trump’s visit to Malaysia (today!) and how he is likely perceived by Malaysians (and Asians in general), plus a note about Doug Wilson’s Open Letter to Trump and its availability here in Malaysia (and everywhere). Check out (and share!) Doug's message to Trump at: TrumpRepent.my Next we look at this week’s Chinese cities to pray for (x.com/china.myadventures, PrayforChina.us), including a deeper look at an early missionary to Mongolia (James Gilmour: https://www.missionary.com/articles/who-was-james-gilmour). Pray for China places of the week https://chinacall.substack.com/p/pray-for-china-oct-27-nov-2-2025 Luke McKinney, the Podcast Ninja from the Comedian Next Door podcast, joins me for the second half of the podcast in a conversation we recorded earlier today (Noon on Saturday Malaysia time, Midnight Eastern): The Comedian Next Door Podcast: https://pubtv.flfnetwork.com/tabs/the-pub/podcasts/8295 We discussed our respective NBA teams (Pacers & Thunder) for the first 20 minutes or so, before moving on to a number of China related topics including Hong Kong freedom (or not), the restrictions on Chinese churches, and LeBron and the NBA’s nefarious relationship with China. Finally, the last few minutes of the podcast take us to the topic of deer hunting, but Luke’s only been out two more times than I have (and I haven’t been out at all, here in Malaysia). Subscribe to China Compass and leave a review on your preferred podcast platform. Follow us on X (@chinaadventures), and find much more @ PrayGiveGo.us. Luke 10, verse 2, the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Talk again soon!