Ab Rauf in Netherlands to examine world’s oldest written record on Hang Tuah

MELAKA: Delegates from the Melaka government are in The Hague, Netherlands to examine a 265-year-old manuscript that could shed more light on the legendary Malay warrior Hang Tuah. The document, which is at Leiden University in The Hague, is the world's oldest Hang Tuah Tale manuscript dating back to 1758. Other documents include the Hikayat Hang Tuah,...

Look to India and Japan for evidence of Hang Tuah, not just Europe, says NGO chairman

MELAKA: Efforts should be placed to extract historical facts about legendary Malay legend Hang Tuah from archives in Okinawa in Japan and Tamil Nadu, India says a local activist from the Portuguese community. Save the Portuguese Action Committee chairman Martin Theseira said the facts about Hang Tuah were hidden in Japan and India. "I believe there is...