Features
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EDUCATION
Education: A Lifelong Love
Consider what these situations have in common: ordering food from a menu, following road directions or filling out a form?…
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Eye Health: World ‘No Tobacco’ Day
Ipoh Echo’s EYE HEALTH series continues with Consultant Eye Surgeon Dr S.S. GILL talking to us about the ocular effects of cigarettes…
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HEALTH
Wellness: Trust Your Medical Specialist?
You could say that Dr Stephen Jacob is almost camera shy as Echo photographer Rosli Mansor came to take his photograph. After…
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Commentary
Giving and receiving
By Cornelia Tan How many of us give in order to receive? We often think of giving like two-way traffic,…
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HERITAGE
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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History
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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HERITAGE
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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HEALTH
About Lasik: Brief History of Refractive Surgery
The first refractive surgeries are thought to have been performed in ancient Greece. These crude surgeries involved removal of cataracts…
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Nostalgia
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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Arts & Culture
Never Too Late or Too Old to Reach International Stardom
By Raja Yasmin Raja Yusof The interview session with Tan Sri Dr Fong Chan Onn on April 27 was…
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