Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Yap Ah Loy (Chinese: 葉亞來, Hakka: Ya̍p Â-lòi, Pinyin: Yè Yălái, Cantonese Yale: Yip A-loi - 14 March 1837-15 April 1885), also known as Yap Tet Loy and Yap Mao Lan. He is regarded as the founding father of modern Kuala Lumpur, he developed Kuala Lumpur as a commercial and mining centre during the mid-19th century. Yap Ah Loy became a Kapitan Cina and the headman of a settlement of Chinese inhabitants. After the independence of Federation of Malaya from the British Empire on 3 August 1957 and later the Formation of Malaysia in 1963, Kuala Lumpur became the capital of Malaysia. Today, there is a street named after him in the heart of Chinatown in Kuala Lumpur, known as 'Jalan Yap Ah Loy' or Yap Ah Loy Road.. }
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- Yap_Ah_Loy abstract "Yap Ah Loy (Chinese: 葉亞來, Hakka: Ya̍p Â-lòi, Pinyin: Yè Yălái, Cantonese Yale: Yip A-loi - 14 March 1837-15 April 1885), also known as Yap Tet Loy and Yap Mao Lan. He is regarded as the founding father of modern Kuala Lumpur, he developed Kuala Lumpur as a commercial and mining centre during the mid-19th century. Yap Ah Loy became a Kapitan Cina and the headman of a settlement of Chinese inhabitants. After the independence of Federation of Malaya from the British Empire on 3 August 1957 and later the Formation of Malaysia in 1963, Kuala Lumpur became the capital of Malaysia. Today, there is a street named after him in the heart of Chinatown in Kuala Lumpur, known as 'Jalan Yap Ah Loy' or Yap Ah Loy Road.".