HERITAGE
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Heritage: A Heritage that Spans 115 Years
By Ian Anderson Ipoh was a dreadful place in the 1880s with hundreds of Chinese immigrants living cheek by jowl…
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History: A Char Kway Teow Stall in Fair Park
By Ian Anderson On June 16, 1948, at 8.30am, Communist sympathisers killed three British planters in Sungai Siput. This marked…
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Here Comes the Milo Man
By Ian Anderson Ipoh World Sdn Bhd was set up in 2004 to record our history, concentrating on Ipoh and…
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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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Nostalgia: Mobile Hawkers, Accessible and Affordable
By Ian Anderson Ipoh has an abundance of restaurants – “too many”, some citizens would say, but restaurants are a…
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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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Nostalgia: Kledang Hill In The 1950s
By Ian Anderson Kledang Hill has been in the news lately because of the dramatic clearing of its trees and…
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Nostalgia: LAU EK CHING – Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
By Ian Anderson Lau Ek Ching, born in 1880 in Fuzhou, Fujian province, to Cantonese parents, was one of the…
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