A belated happy New Year to all. What will this year bring us? Trump as president of the USA, Putin still waging war against Ukraine and of course all the upheaval in the middle east. Are we going to see even more weather related disasters? And of course the unpredictable China. Lets all hope that we have some sanity to come! Now on a less gloomy note all is fine down here in Cornwall and I hope all is ok with you all. I often think back to my time in Malaya, I wonder how much I spent on Tiger beer an
d Rum? Haven't got the capacity to do it now, the old bones wont allow. Good luck to you all have a good year.
       

G’day all!
I was recently asked by a local historian if I knew a “Sgt Leonard Scott” RASigs, who's listed as having served in Malaya from 1964 thru 1965. As, this was just before my time, I couldn’t help. Although I can’t ever recall hearing his name before. Does he ring any “208 bells” for anybody? Mind you, he could have been on 28 Bde HQ, or the 3RAR RASigs Det. Or, he could have been at 111 LAA Battery Det up at Butterworth. So, over to you, folks – any information is greatly appreciated.
Cheers, Ken.

Yes indeed. Biden was all over the VN media only two days ago talking about his plans to form a strategic commercial partnership between VN and USA. Of course that could all change very quickly after the upcoming election in USA, which is doubtless being watched very closely in Hanoi's halls of power!

G'day Ken - all good up here in Vietnam, thanks. Forecasters reckon we only have a few more typhoons before this year's wet season ends. Usual annual average is 12 storms for the country and about half that number for south-central where we are in Vung Tau, and we've had 4 so far with much less than normal damage, unlike those hit with all that carnage up north! Biggest problem for us is the population boom in Australia forcing the gov't to reduce the usual intake of overseas students, because we wanna get our niece Sunny into a high school near Willoughby so she can stay with us, but all the schools are full at the moment so we're stuck playing the "wait and see" game. Ho hum! 

Hi Pam.
Apologies for taking so long to respond but I had a problem with logging into this MB. No idea what happened but the user name and password boxes at the top of the page were suddenly empty instead of full of asterisks, and I couldn't for the life of me remember my user name and password for this site.
I've been trying to contact Lee but no response so I guess he's still busy helping his local council (I think that's what he was doing - sounded like IT support).
I came back onto this site just now because I think I might have found the password even if not the user name (we changed from the old ones that your Martin gave everyone when Lee rebuilt this site). But lo and behold, the user name and password boxes were suddenly full of asterisks again so I logged in successfully - but still don't know the user name and password!!!
Anyway, it doesn't look like anyone else is using the MB these days so will have to wait at least until Lee comes back on board to try and get him to help Steve Iceton.
All OK in this neck of the woods - Sunny goes back to school for second of two terms tomorrow, then will finish Year 7 (not 8 as I wrongly said below). She's been elected class leader for the second year running so we're all very proud - especially as she was also 1 of only 7 students from her school to pass Cambridge Key English Test (KET) with an A grade! Wish I had her brains!!!
Actually, I've just noticed the "Attachments and other options" below, and sure I've never seen them before so maybe Lee's back on board already and making more updates - I'll email him and let you know if any success.