History
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Nostalgia: Remembering New Pasir Puteh
By Ian Anderson Three of ipohWorld’s staunch supporters Mano, LMS and SK, lived in New Pasir Puteh in the late…
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Ipoh’s Beef Noodles
This story starts in 1902 when Lee Cheong was born in Guangdong. Like many Chinese of his time, he left…
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The Foochows of Sitiawan
By Ian Anderson In the National Census of 1901, the British Colonial Government recorded a dramatic increase in the population…
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Cover Story: Visit Ayer Tawar & Sitiawan Now Before They Become Tourist Magnets!
By Tan Mei Kuan & Vivien Lian (pics) Get swept up with the energy in this jam-packed, town-hopping itinerary which…
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Heritage: A Mansion, Motherhood and a Murder
By Ian Anderson Most local people are aware of the Kinta Medical Centre (KMC) and its supporting role in the…
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Cover Story: An Echo Worth Hearing
By The Ipoh Echo Team How time flies. Ipoh’s only community newspaper, and perhaps the only one in the whole…
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Fond Memories of Ipoh: Birch Gardens in the Sixties
The bloody Seafield temple incident late last year prompted me to pen my memories. This is in response to Ipoh…
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Cover Story: Everybody’s Nephew
By Ian Anderson As the FMS Bar has opened again after 10 years “Under renovation” our thoughts turn to its…
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The Dato’ Sri Adika Raja, the most influential Malay in 1900s Ipoh
After the death of the tenth Dato’ Panglima Kinta Mohamed Yusuf in 1903, Dato’ Sri Adika Raja, Wan Mohamed Salleh…
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An Update On The Forgotten Six-mile Tunnel
Ipoh Echo featured the six-mile tunnel in Issue 16, 2006 (the year Ipoh Echo was founded). Not much has been…
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