Dr Wai Weng Hew provides some comments on the Malaysia workshop Day 2 Panel 1.
Dr Wai Weng Hew gave a commentary on the contributions from the first panel of the second day which included talks on 'Gold, Tin and Gambier: Chinese Migration and Pahang's Economic Development in the 19th Century' by Dr Rudolph Ng; 'Piecing together the early history of Pahang through Imperial Chinese scripture' by Mr Jonathan Privett-Mendoza; 'Pahang in the Maritime Spice Route: Insights from Numismatics, Shipwrecks, and Cartography' by Mr Amru Khalid Sazali; and 'The early history of the Bay of Bengal: An Austronesian Sea?' by Dr Roger Blench.
