Catalogue description Colonial Office: South East Asia Department: Original Correspondence

This series contains correspondence of the South East Asia Department relating to Borneo, Brunei, Malaya, Sarawak and Singapore, and to the Federation of Malaya. Subject matter includes various aspects of those countries' internal and constitutional development, and international relations in south-east Asia as a whole.

For later records see CO 1030

For earlier records relating to North Borneo see CO 531

For earlier records relating to the Federated Malay States see CO 717

For earlier records relating to Sarawak see CO 938

For earlier records relating to Brunei see CO 943

For earlier records relating to Singapore see CO 953

For later records see OD 27

For earlier records see CO 954

Colonial Office, South East Asia Department, 1950-1956