1. Prime Minister Najib Razak promised to scrap the sedition laws a legacy of British colonial rule after public rallies calling for reform in 2012.

2. The change in command has taken place this way starting in the British colonial days.

3. The mere presence of the buried structure indicates that there was a colonial presence in the area.

4. Most South Koreans prefer the term comfort women even though it is adopted from their former colonial ruler.

5. But historic churches dating from the Spanish colonial period suffered the most.

6. Unlike the West, China has no colonial or slave trade history in the region.

7. The executions were part of a mass hysteria in colonial Massachusetts in which some local people were accused of practicing witchcraft.

8. Many South Koreans harbor deep resentment against Japan over its colonial occupation.