Now that I am older and presumably wiser, I want to revisit places I didn’t think much about when visited in my youth.

The Portuguese, who occupied Malacca in 1511, had done little before their expulsion by the Dutch in 1641. The Dutch, who, with two short breaks (1795–1801 and 1807–18), owned Malacca till ...

MELAKA: A mother of four here is determined to preserve Melaka's Portuguese heritage, featuring the community's Kristang language in a recent Christmas pageant as part of the effort. Cultural ...

In Melaka, where history lingers in narrow lanes and ancient buildings, the Praya Lane neighbourhood stands as a reminder of the once-vibrant Portuguese Eurasian, or Kristang, community.