SCHOOL students sing it daily, and the rest of us? We hear it, once in a while. But none of us really know where Negaraku, Malaysia’s national anthem, was truly conceived.
ESTABLISHED in 1946, Radio Malaya began in Singapore, before relocating to Kuala Lumpur in 1950. Consider that this was during a time when national identity and unity was promoted at an all-time high, and Malaya was just waiting to go independent.
AT Dewan Filharmonik Petronas last weekend for the Saturday night performance of Malam Terang Bulan, we sat back and lost ourselves in the remarkable world of Saidah Rastam‘s Rosalie and Other Love Songs.