At its peak the Majapahit empire, in the days of King Hayam Wuruk and his feared vizir Gajah Mada, controlled a huge amount of territory, from modern day southern Thailand to Singapore, Java, Sumatra, ...

The meeting would end up bloody, sparking wars between the Mongols and the Javanese, and from Singasari’s ruins was born the Majapahit kingdom, the most powerful empire in the land that would ...

HERALD van der Linde has just published the book, "Majapahit" (Intrigue, Betrayal and War in Indonesia's Greatest Empire), under the imprint of Monsoon Books in London. All of us who went to grade ...