Malay population

Considerable heterogeneity has been demonstrated with respect to average plasma Lp(a) levels in different ethnic groups. These differences cannot be entirely explained by differences in allele frequencies that exist between these groups [i.e., are not entirely due to allele-specific effects on Lp(a) concentrations] (M13, S3, S4). Interestingly, in the Sudanese population, Lp(a) levels are primarily (81%) determined by factors other than the size of the apo(a) allele, while in the Malay population, only 23% of the variation in Lp(a) levels could not be accounted for by size differences in the gene (S3). In Caucasians, it has previously been reported that 40-70% of the variance in Lp(a) levels can be... 

Malay ethnie nationalism, of the protective type analysed in chapter 2, had had an exceptionally long innings in Malaysia. In its UMNO form it had, however, been unable to expand its agenda to become an inclusive type of state nationalism of civic kind. By 2008 there were claims that this was a kind of failed nation (Sani 2008). On the other hand, the sense of threat that had given rise to this brand of ethnie nationalism in the 1940s, when there were very few Malays in the modern economy, was unconvincing to a new generation who had seen the Malay population increase to some 60 per cent of the... 

Under French protection the monarchies of the Mekong were institutionally secure for the first time in centuries, and protected from the sort of succession conflicts which had in the past ensured the survival of the toughest. Like their Malay counterparts they were encouraged to focus their energies in the areas of state ritual, symbolism, culture and religion. Some 220,000 Vietnamese migrants (2.7 per cent of population in Laos,... 

Prior to this shift, settled cultivators were few in both the lower Peninsula and lowland Sumatra. The main populations of cultivators who would later be classified Malay were in Kelantan and Patani, and appear to have called themselves by these place names or even more local ones. Their Siamese overlords distinguished them where necessary as Khek. In Sumatra, around 90 per cent of the population south of Aceh was in the highlands, and identified themselves by the lake (Toba, Ranau, Kerinci), river valley or locality around which they lived. When Muslim traders, rulers and diplomats of the hybrid lowland centres later thought of as Malay needed very broad labels to distinguish themselves from Arabs, Europeans, Chinese and other outsiders they would use... 

This Turkish connection ensured that Aceh would see itself differendy placed from the sultanates positioned around the Java Sea. States like Palembang and Banjarmasin were always involved with coastal Javanese politics, and acknowledged the appeal of Javanese culture even when they were in conflict with specific Javanese states. For them, interactions with the Dutch successors to Javanese maritime power were inescapable. By contrast, Aceh never had significant contact with Java, but much with the Malay states of the Peninsula and Sumatra, where it loomed as the major power until the mid-seventeenth century, and with the Middle East, South India and the countries around the Bay of Bengal.1 Because of its trade connections, it had more South Indian and Arab elements in its population, and in court roles including the royal dynasty itself, than did other Indonesian peoples. 

Remarkably, despite the insignificant number of Malays in the state s population when it joined Malaysia, the Peninsula model of UMNO... 

Christmas Island, 28,000 km (17,398 mi) northwest of Perth, Western Australia, 380 kilometers south of Java in the Indian Ocean is home to 1200 people of Chinese, Malay and Caucasian heritage. The 135 km (51.7 mi ) island is jungle-clad mountainous consisting mainly of limestone with volcanic rock. More than 60% of the island is national park with one of the world s largest and most diverse land crab populations. The Christmas Island Permanent Immigration Reception and Processing Centre (Detention Centre) was constmcted on a relatively flat 30 hectare (74.1 acre) piece of land in the remote northwest tip of the island (Fig. 98.4). 

The facial and Cl direct measurements and indexes showed significant difference among races Malay, Chinese and the control population. 

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