Already in the 10th century the Malay kingdoms were establish in the harbors of the spice trade route of Malacca. In the ports blossomed the trade with China and the Orient. Arabian immigrants brought Islam and in the 14th century the kingdom became Malacca a sultanate.

The street of Malacca is a part of the spice trade route of the British Eat-India Company to China. It was impossible to hide the wealth of Malacca from the Portuguese and Englishman. In the 15th century the wealth became the disaster to all Malay kingdoms and sultanates. The area became colonize.

Four centuries Malaysia suffered from the colonization by the Portuguese, Dutchman and Great Britain.

The Malaysian States Pahang, Perak, Selangor and Negeri Sembilan became protectorate of Great Britain in 1874. Their sultans were only string puppets of the English crown. In 1896 the Federation of Malay States were formed from this protectorates.

Because of the presence of the British colonialists Malaysia was occupied by Japanese which led war against England during the 2-nd world war.

After the end of the war Singapore received the state of a self administered Britain Crown-Colony. The States Perlis, Kedah, Kelantan, Terengganu as well as the Crown-Colony’s of the British East-India Company (Straits Settlements encloses Malacca, island Singapore, Penang, island Labuan, Pankor islands, Dindings - today Pelau Pankor, distant Wellesley, the coconut palms islands and Christmas islands) was added to the Federation of Malay States. In result the Malay Union was formed.

Malay Alliance fights out itself the independence from Great Britain in a long guerrilla war against the English colonialists and founded the federation Malaya in 31st August, 1957.

With the accession Sabahs, Sarawaks and a short time also Singapore to the Malay Alliance, the Federation Malaysia was founded in 1963.

The Philippines raised claim to Sabah in 1963. Also Indonesia tried to prevent in 1963 the integration of the Malaysian States Sabah and Sarawak in the north of Borneo, nevertheless Indonesia had to recognize the affiliation to Malaysia.

Today the kingdom Malaysia enclosed 13 federal States (7 sultanates among) and 3 federal territories. All 16 administration units have her own flag and own land signs. Sabah, Sarawak, Penang and Malacca are no sultanates and, hence, are administered by a governor of the central government.

Malaysia is one of the richest and most advanced and developed countries. In front of Malaysia ranks Brunei by his oil and Singapore by his function as a centre in the harbor and aerial trading.

The Malaysian Kingdom is a constitutional, parliamentary democratic monarchy. All 5 years the Chamber of Deputies (Dewan Rakyat) the Land Meeting (Dewan Negar) is chosen in a rotation principle one sultan from 9 sultanates as the "intermittent king“.

Since 1957, the independence famed, celebrated with the national holiday 31st August, governed a party alliance under the guidance of the United Malays Nationwide Organization (UMNO) after the clever election slogan „unity is strength“, (Bersekutu Bertambah Mutu). The UMNO represents all essential ethnic groups. The national hymn is called „my land“, (Negara Ku).

Women have in the Malaysian policy and economy a really equal role - they have not only rates or alibi functions.

As one of the biggest commercial centres in South-East Asia, Malaysia counts to the panther's States. The people are high formed, because the Government spends approx. 25% for education (however, only 10% for armament). Thus the land has developed a highly competitive, innovative economy. The prosperity is substantial - even after European benchmark, and also growth rates of 6% are more annual. That is proving the best future chances.

The State applies the proven socialist principle of the planned economy, with long-term concepts for developing and derived from it to 3 and 5 years plans in combination with success-oriented market economy without capital speculations. Hence, impressive economic success of the land explains itself in comparison to the G7 / G8 countries.

By the Ringgits uncoupling of the dollar according to Chinese model now the Malaysian economy also gets rid of her chains, can develop more freely and do fair trade. The inflation rate pointed with only 1%.

The kingdom scoops his income from raw materials (silver, tin, oil), agriculture (India rubber, palm oil, tea, fruit), tourism, production from goods (electronics, cars) and trade.

The car, the Proton, is world-renowned. Especially for the Proton advertisement the Sepang Internationally Circuit for car races became built near Kuala Lumpur.

In the Malaysian Kingdom are existing, same as in India, USA or China multiple languages. Bahasa Malay is the community language in Malaysia. In addition, a lot of people speak Malay-English, Chinese, in the west, however, also Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Thai and in the east on Borneo Austronesia Iban and Kadazan.

You are still able to meet groups of original people in east Malaysia, partly on the early cultural step of hunters and collectors. On Borneo still lives about 400 known tribes (Orang importance, Penan, Melanau, Orang Ulu, Iban, Bidayuh, Melayu …).

They are followers of traditional physical religions. More and more, young family members integrate themselves into the ultramodern world of the cities and her religion mixes with Christianity and Islam.

These Austronesia languages natives, called Bumiputras – sons of the earth, are more than half of the population Sarawaks and Sabahs. Hence, townsmen West-Malaysia’s express themselves now and then disparagingly: on Borneo that one lives in the trees.

In the west, on the Malay Peninsula one calls the Bumiputras also Orang Asli. They belong like on Borneo to a big number of different ethnic groups with common culture, nevertheless, pocket already as far as possible from the new Malay culture, lives in the cities and have lost their identity.

Today Malays are only just 50% of the whole population to the numerous minorities belong in whole Malaysia commercial-competent immigrants from China and South Korea. In the Chinese hand lies trade and the economy – therefore also the biggest wealth.

East-Malaysia has hard to fight with unlawful immigrants from the Philippines. In east Malaysia lives only about one fifth of the inhabitants of whole Malaysia. On the Malaysian peninsula are concentrate poverty refugees from Europe, descendants of the colonialists, immigrants from India, Pakistan and Arab.

The life expectancy lies between 70 to 80 years. In spite of a baby's mortality of approx. 2% the population increase with approx. 2.5% yearly is big alarmingly and leads to possibly the fact that one third of the population is more recently than 15 years.

Malaysia was a Buddhist and Hindu region in the origin. Arabian immigrants brought the Islam to Malaysia since 13th century. More than 200 years Arabs and Malays are mixed, what led to the gentle Islamize of Malaysia and Indonesia.

Cultural and social problems by the plentiful immigration in rich Malaysia led in the end of the seventies of the last century to orthodox trends in Malay Islam. Although today only curt the half of the population is Malays, the orthodox Islamism was overcome as much as possible.

Two thirds of the populations are Muslims. Islam is the State-Religion. All ethnic Malays are constitutional from birth Muslims and should not marry dissidents, just as Christians. A turning away from Islam is possible. The Sharia Law pretends any renunciation only after fruitless re-education (like the brain-washing before an abortion in Germany). Muslims are put in the civil service preferentially (same like Christians in German Catholic areas, or give East Germans the status of civil servant). One can feel like at home, or think about(?).

In Malaysia every believer has a claim to get and commit freely and publicly the holidays of his religious direction under the protection of the State. Hence, in the public life a colored variety of open creeds is quite normal.

This kind of cultural and religious freedom and tolerance is inconceivable in most "liberally" Christian lands (have you ever seen in your country once officially celebrations of the Chinese New Year, Ramadan, or Buddhist ceremonies?).

Social laws are in Malaysia still in development. Nevertheless, in practice becomes not tried to avoiding or to annul the social thoughts, but this is voluntarily lived. Pregnant women, mothers with children receive more wages and have more safe workplaces, severely disabled persons are treated obliging and reliefs are developed clearly obviously.

There is given pension from 55 years and the preretirement from 50 does not reduce the pension claims from 55 years. The families which are supplied not enough enjoy the allowance of the king.

Policy of Malaysia pursues an adjustment on the removal of ethnic and economic differences as well as the poverty of immigrants. Malaysia has launched auxiliary programs for desperate Countries, like the Philippines, to avert the mass drift into Malaysia.