Sentence examples for rubber estate from inspiring English sources

The shootings took place after a 16-man patrol group of Scots Guards surrounded a rubber estate at Sunga Rimoh by the Batang Kali river.

However, in 1948, as Ceylon gained independence (it became Sri Lanka in 1972), he sailed home and bought a derelict rubber estate at Lunuganga, near Bentota, with the aim of transforming it into a tropical evocation of an Italian garden.

"It is almost forgotten history," said Sasidaran Sellappah, a retired plantation manager in Malaysia whose late father was part of a team of 120 Tamil workers from a rubber estate who were forced to work on the railway.

"It is almost forgotten history," said Sasidaran Sellappah, a retired plantation manager in Malaysia whose father was among 120 Tamil workers from a rubber estate forced to work on the railway.

The public are apt not to realise the profitable nature of the return arfter a rubber estate has come into bearing, because in the majority of cases where they are invited to take shares in Malayan or Ceylon rubber companies the estates have been already started and often brought to the bearing point, and the exploiters have to be paid for their outlay.

That one's still being fought in the Dalit bastis of our villages, on the banks of the Narmada and the Koel Karo rivers; in the rubber estate in Chengara; in the villages of Nandigram, Singur, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa, Lalgarh in West Bengal and the slums and shantytowns of our gigantic cities.

The mostly Hindu Indian minority, connected historically with nearby rubber estates, also is substantial.

Surrounded by oil-palm and rubber estates, the town is on the central Johor plains and has a small airfield.

The communist guerrillas ("bandits" to the colonial authorities) drew their strength from the enormous Chinese working class that toiled in the European-owned tin mines and rubber estates.

In partnership with others, he owns tapioca and rubber estates to the extent of about 3,500 acres, complete with a factory, at Ayer Chermin and Alor Gajah, and he himself owns lands and houses in Malacca, Singapore, and the Federated Malay States.

To start the program, organizers selected 20 rural schools in the state closest to Kuala Lumpur, reaching out to children from fishing villages, oil-palm plantations and rubber estates.