Talk:Straits Settlements

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Am dividing my resources between Federated Malay States and this article. After some research time managed to confirm exactly how the coat of arms of the straits settlement look like (ref from the back of old malayan ringgit notes and some incomplete image that I had to completely clean up and (for some part) redo. Will get back to this if have more time.

--Bukhrin 18:04, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Native name
Why was Negeri-Negeri Selat removed from the native_name field? --Bukhrin 18:05, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Currency
What kind of $ does this article refer to? Straits dollar? United States dollar? Malaya and British Borneo dollar? --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 23:07, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
 * See the infobox __earth (Talk) 01:53, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

merge tag

 * support merge-there do not need to be two articles on the same topic. Chris 18:35, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
 * support - the article for Straits Settlement of Malacca is too short, I think it's a good iea to merged it with the Straits Settlements. Andrew Kidman - (talk |contrib) 13:53, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * support - the other article is a fork, and should be turned into a redirect to this article. john k (talk) 06:31, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * support __earth (Talk) —Preceding comment was added at 08:39, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Official language(s)
As a British colony, I presume that the official language of the Straits Settlements should be English only. I am not sure about Malay, but I doubt that Chinese and Indian languages are official as well. -- Joshua Say "hi" to me!What I've done? 13:37, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

I have not found anything specifically on official language during the colonial period. But the carefully documented website http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jacklee/Files/Moyer-MultilingualMultiethnicCountry.pdf says this:  "In 1946, the government provided free primary education in the four main languages – Chinese, Malay, Tamil and English. In 1955 the government recommended that each of the four main languages be treated equally." Colin McLarty (talk) 20:12, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Flag of the Malayan Union
Is this correct, if as flag of the Crown Colony of the Malayan Union shows a flag of the Federated Malay States 1895-1942? Flagoved (talk) 19:20, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Malaya is a racist community in Malaysia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.133.36.54 (talk) 03:02, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 3 March 2022
Change “and by 1836 Singapore was the seat of government…” to “and from 1832, Singapore was the seat of government…” Horuijie (talk) 07:22, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ CMD (talk) 07:58, 3 March 2022 (UTC)