HERITAGE
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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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Heritage: A Mansion, Motherhood and a Murder
By Ian Anderson Most local people are aware of the Kinta Medical Centre (KMC) and its supporting role in the…
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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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Cover Story: An Echo Worth Hearing
By The Ipoh Echo Team How time flies. Ipoh’s only community newspaper, and perhaps the only one in the whole…
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Fond Memories of Ipoh: Birch Gardens in the Sixties
The bloody Seafield temple incident late last year prompted me to pen my memories. This is in response to Ipoh…
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Nostalgia: Some Famous Ipoh Indians
Perhaps the very first of these was Shaik Adam, founder of the Mohammedan Mosque by the Padang. He started his…
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Cover Story: Everybody’s Nephew
By Ian Anderson As the FMS Bar has opened again after 10 years “Under renovation” our thoughts turn to its…
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An Update On The Forgotten Six-mile Tunnel
Ipoh Echo featured the six-mile tunnel in Issue 16, 2006 (the year Ipoh Echo was founded). Not much has been…
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Nostalgia: Bangsawan, the Malay Opera
By Ian Anderson This photograph shows a Malay opera or Bangsawan troupe. Bangsawan is a form of traditional Malay opera…
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The Dato’ Sri Adika Raja, the most influential Malay in 1900s Ipoh
After the death of the tenth Dato’ Panglima Kinta Mohamed Yusuf in 1903, Dato’ Sri Adika Raja, Wan Mohamed Salleh…
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