HERITAGE
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Who’s in the Club Today? – Ah Toh (Episode 6)
As Ah Foong stands dreaming about food at the Fan Tan table, down in the kitchen Ah Toh is putting…
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Who’s in Han Chin Pet Soo – Ah Foong (Episode 5)
Ah Foong is another rich miner who just does not like to conform to the normal Towkay standards. He is…
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Who’s in Han Chin Pet Soo – Ah Foo (Episode 4)
Ah Foo, a wealthy tin mine owner, a regular gambler and opium smoker.
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Who’s in Han Chin Pet Soo – Dancing Girl Yong (Episode 3)
As a concubine of an extremely wealthy Chinese Towkay in the 1930s, Soo, unlike her friend Yong, is well up…
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Who’s in Han Chin Pet Soo – Concubine Soo (Episode 2)
You met Ah Lee yesterday when he was playing Mahjong with friends. As usual, he was wearing a horse riding…
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Who’s in Han Chin Pet Soo – Towkay Ah Lee (Episode 1)
The streets and lanes of Ipoh are empty. There are no visitors to the museum but, behind the closed doors…
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Kinta Karsts – Perak’s Time Capsules
By Chris Teh What are karsts? According to retired geochemistry professor W.K. Fletcher in his recent talk about Malaysian Galapagos…
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Nostalgia: Infanticide and the Little Daughters-in-Law
The problem of unwanted babies has been with us for thousands of years. It seems that all too often, we…
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First-ever Couplets Calligraphy Event
By Chris Teh In view of the upcoming Chinese New Year, Tin Alley organised a Couplets Calligraphy event which garnered…
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First-of-its-kind Marker Trail
To add on to the city’s heritage trails, the first-of-its-kind marker trail of Dr Sun Yat Sen and his comrades…
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