HERITAGE
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What’s The Story Behind This Abandoned Cinema In Ayer Tawar?
By Vivien Lian Ipoh Echo scribes came across this beauty when they were exploring Ayer Tawar. The faded yellow paint…
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Cover Story: Heritage and Cultural Associations in Ipoh: Thriving or Surviving?
By Chris Teh Historically, Ipoh has been one of the cities in Malaysia where many associations were formed for the…
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Heritage: An Ipoh Centenarian Still Going Strong
The idea of a Chinese recreation club began when Dr K.T. Khong came down to Ipoh from Penang, in 1912,…
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Heritage: Historic Taiping Aerodrome Sold
On Friday June 14, members of Taiping-based non-governmental organisations (NGO) organised a rally to protest against the sale of part…
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Nostalgia: Clubs and Clubbing – The Early Days
As the saying goes, “Wherever there are British, there’s a club”. Sure enough, when the Brits came to Perak, there…
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Creating a Safe City
By Chris Teh The declaration of Ipoh as a safe city has certainly boosted the city as an artistically and…
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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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Nostalgia: Necessity is the Mother of Invention
By Ian Anderson The bicycle was invented by a Scotsman, Kirkpatrick MacMillan, as long ago as 1839. He was a…
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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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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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