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SIMPANGHISTORYNew villages are settlements created during the waning days of British ruleover Malaya in the mid-1950s. The original purpose of the New Villages inMalaysia was to segregate the villagers from the early Malayan Races LiberationArmy insurgents, which were led by the Malayan Communist Party, during theMalayan Emergency. This plan aimed to defeat the communists, who wereoperating out of rural areas as a guerrilla army, primarily by cutting them off fromtheir sources of support.Simpang New Village is one of the 450 Chinese New Villages createdduring the Malayan Emergency. Simpang is located 4km away from Taiping,Perak. Established in 1952, Simpang New Village currently has a population ofaround 2000 villagers with 264 houses. The name of the village comes from theroad junction where it is located “Simpang” means junction in Bahasa Malaysia.Simpang New Village is dominated by Hokkien Chinese people.2