The `Unfinished Business' of Malaysia's decolonisation: The origins of the Guthrie `Dawn Raid'

• Main Authors: Yacob, S., White, N.J.
• Format: Article
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2010
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/12493/
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

In a `dawn raid' on the London Stock Exchange on 7 September 1981, the premiere British rubber and oil palm conglomerate in Malaysia, the Guthrie Corporation Limited, was taken into local control in less than four hours. This was the most dramatic Malaysian acquisition of a foreign company duri...