HERITAGE
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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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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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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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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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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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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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