HERITAGE
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Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects
By Tan Mei Kuan Professor Emerita Lynn Hollen Lees gave an illustrated talk based on her book, “Planting Empire, Cultivating…
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Nostalgia: Boutique Hotels of Old
By Ian Anderson The last time I looked at a website for Ipoh hotels I discovered that it claimed that…
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Heritage: An Idea over Lunch
By Ian Anderson In 1933 a group of prominent local tin miners met for lunch. There was probably nothing unusual…
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Nostalgia: A Different Sort of Chop
By Ian Anderson Leong Fu So was born in Teluk Anson in 1932, the son of a policeman. Shortly afterwards,…
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Heritage: Ipoh’s Green Lungs
Ipoh has changed dramatically over the last 20 years I have lived here. Wonderful old trees have been cut down…
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Connexion: Silver trail in heritage living
By Joachim Ng Perak is caught in an old-versus-new dilemma: to preserve our past, or protect our posterity. Planters and…
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Nostalgia: Times Change
By Ian Anderson There is no doubt that things have to change as we cannot stay in a sort of…
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Cover Story: Chew Museum: Yeoh-Lim-Chew and Beyond
By Tan Mei Kuan and SeeFoon Chan-Koppen Opened in 2013, the two-storey Chew Museum is located in a bungalow behind Ban Hoe…
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Cover Story: Chew Museum: Yeoh-Lim-Chew and Beyond
By Tan Mei Kuan and SeeFoon Chan-Koppen Opened in 2013, the two-storey Chew Museum is located in a bungalow behind Ban Hoe…
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Heritage: Chew Boon Juan, the Chew Family Patriarch
By Ian Anderson Ipoh has a number of successful Chinese family’s well-known names like Foo, Lee, Yap, Lim, Yeoh and…
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