New Villages were the population transfers the British used to successfully combat the Malayan Emergency. IOTL, they inspired the Strategic Hamlet program of Vietnam, where they were an abject failure.
Why was there such a contrast between the results of the two programs? Did the British get historically lucky, that is, could New Villages have backfired? Were the main problems of the Strategic Hamlets their administration, or was there something fundamentally different between them and New Villages?