Khoo Kay Kim

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Dato' Dr Khoo Kay Kim (b. March 28 1937) is a Malaysian historian and currently is a Professor Emeritus at University of Malaya's history department. He was born in Kampar, Perak, Malaysia.

All of his university degrees - B.A. 1959; M.A. 1967; PhD. 1974 - were awarded by the University of Malaya. The title of his PhD thesis is The beginnings of political extremism in Malaya 1915-1935 (1973) and was supervised by Prof. Kennedy G. Tregonning, who was then the Raffles Professor of History. Tregonning was also trained at the University of Malaya.

Khoo is one of the co-authors of Rukunegara.

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• History of Malaysia. Malaysian National Library. URL accessed on April 10 2006.