Offhand, the two nearby places that may have connections to the Philippines are the former Portuguese settlements of Malacca ...

MELAKA: The small Portuguese community in Ujong Pasir here has lit up their settlement, creating a Yuletide fairyland atmosphere ahead of Christmas. Efforts by the community to make Christmas ...

Every year, as the Christian world enters the solemn days of Holy Week — Semana Santa, as the Portuguese call it — something profoundly quaint and extraordinary unfolds in the historic Malaysian city ...

With its government buildings, churches, squares and fortifications, Melaka demonstrates the early stages of this history originating in the 15th-century Malay sultanate and the Portuguese and Dutch ...

THE local Portuguese community remains hopeful for a favourable outcome concerning the status of the historic Canossian Convent located in Bandar Hilir, here. Read full story ...

Margaret Sarkissian teaches courses in ethnomusicology and anthropology. Her field research has focused primarily on the Malaysian-Portuguese and Straits Chinese communities of Melaka (Malacca), ...

Major Religions: Islam 61.3%, Buddhism 19.8%, Christianity 9.2%, Hinduism 6.3%, Chinese folk 1.3%, Unknown 1.7%, Others 0.4% The Nestorians and Persian traders introduced Christianity to the Malacca ...