Malaysian First Day Cover - Paralympics Golden Moments In Rio 2016 - 20 December 2016

Malaysia participated in the Paralympics Games , the biggest sporting event for disable athletes for the first time in Heidelberg Germany in 1972. Malaysia won the first bronze medal in the 1988  Seoul Paralympics Games and subsequently won one silver and two bronze medals at the 1992 Barcelona Paralympics Games in Spain. At the Rio Paralympics Games, the Malaysian contingent sent 21 athletes participating in 8 events - Athletics, Cycling, Archery, Weighlifting, Ping Pong, Sailing, Swimming and Wheelchair Tennis. History was made at the Rio Paralympics Games 2016 where Malaysian won  three gold medals.

1. MALAYSIAN FIRS DAY COVER - PARALYMPICS GOLDEN MOMENTS IN RIO 2016 - ISSUED 20 DEC 2016

Malaysian First Day Cover - Places Of Worship - 21st. November 2016

Malaysia is a melting pot of various races and religions. It is of the most diverse countries in the world where people of different beliefs and culture live together harmoniously. It is very common to see different places of worship such as mosque, temple, church and gurdwara in the same neighborhood or a few hundred meters from each other. In this stamp edition, Pos Malaysia is showcasing a few well-know places of worship which we can track back their places of origin as far as South India, China and Sri Langka. Among them are 1. Masjid Kapitan Keling ( Penang ), 2. Church Of Saint Francis Xavier ( Melacca ), 3. Malaysian Ceylon Saivites Association ( Kuala Lumpur ), 4. Gurdwara  Sahib Shapha ( Kuala Lumpur ) and 5. Perak Cave Temple ( Perak )

MALAYSIAN FIRST DAY COVER - PLACES OF WORSHIP - 21ST. NOVEMBER 2016 

                                                                   

Old And New Stamps Of Thailand ( South East Asia )

Before Siam / Thailand issued its first stamps, mail service was only for the royal family. The earliest recorded mail  from Bangkok dates back to 1836 when an American missionary sent a letter to his father in a stampless cover. The British consular  post office in Bangkok was established by the British in 1858. It ceased to provide service in 1885 when Siam joined the Universal Post and started its own international postal service. Siam issued its first stamps the Solet series on 4th. of August 1883.

1. 1887 - 1891 ( KING RAMA 1 )

2. 1900

3. 1904

4. 1908

5.  1908

6.  1909 - 1910

7.  1910

8.   1912 - 1917

9.  1920

10.  1925 ( KING RAMA VII )

11.  1925 - 1929

12.  1932

13.   1939

14. NEW ISSUE ( KING BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ )

15. NEW ISSUE

16. RECENT ONES

17. RECENT ONES

Stamps Of Cambodia - South East Asia

Cambodia used postage stamps of Indo-China until the early 1950s. In 1949, Cambodia became associated with French Union but  gained independence in 1953 and left the union in 1955.  The first stamps were issued in 1951 with Royaume du Cambodge.  One of the stamps depicted King Norodom Sihanouk.  The National United Front of Cambodia took over Cambodia in 1975 and established Democratic Kampuchea. The new regime allowed no civilian private communication  and so abolished the postal system. Service resumed in the early 1979 when the Vietnam People's Army drove the Khmer Rouge out of Phnom Penh. April 1980 saw the first set of postage stamps being issued after the establishment of the People's Republic of Kampuchea.

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Malaysian First Day Covers - Penang Free School - 21 October 2016

On 6th of February 1816 a committee headed by Reverend Robert Sparke Hutchings then the Colonial Chaplain of the Prince of Wales Island ( Penang ) submitted a proposal for the establishment of a school to the Governor of Penang. The school was open to all children regardless of age and religion. That is how the school got its name. Penang Free school is the oldest school in Malaysia and South East Asia as well. Its first Headmaster was Mr. James Cox. Today we are commemorating Penang Free School for achieving  a 200 Years of Excellence in education.

1. MALAYSIAN FIRST DAY COVER - PENANG FREE SCHOOL - 21 OCTOBER 2016

2. MALAYSIAN FIRST DAY COVER - PENANG FREE SCHOOL - 21 OCTOBER 2016

Stamps Of Laos - South East Asia

Laos is a landlocked country in South East Asia, bordered by Burma and People's Republic of China to the North West, Vietnam to the East, Cambodia to the South and Thailand to the West.  Laos traces back its history to the Kingdom of Lan Xang or land of a million elephants which existed in the 14th century to the 18th century. After a period as a French Protectorate, Laos gained independence in 1953. A long civil war ended officially when the Communist Party Pathet Lao movement came to power in 1975. The first stamps of Laos were issued on 13rd November 1951. Before that stamps of French Indo-China were used.

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Malaysian First Day Covers - Postmen Community - 09 / 10 / 2016

Postmen Community is one of the projects of Sabah and Sarawak Postal Transformation Plan to widen mail coverage and improve delivery services to remote areas. Since its inception in 2010, there are 250 Postmen Communities in Sabah and Sarawak helping to deliver postal items from house to house in the rural areas where normal postmen could not reach. Postmen Community delivers their daily tasks by using different means of transportation depending upon their unique surrounding and logistical challenges. Some of them ride on horses, bicycles, long boats, motorcycles, cars and even walking.

1.  MALAYSIAN FIRST DAY COVER - POSTMEN COMMUNITY - 09 / 10 / 2016

2.  MALAYSIAN FIRST DAY COVER - POSTMEN COMMUNITY - 09 / 10 / 2016