Heritage
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HERITAGE
Heritage: New Town Ipoh, after Dark
By Ian Anderson In the competitive world of entertainment, only the strongest survive. Every new venue must start with a…
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HERITAGE
Heritage: Where Have the Old Pubs Gone?
By Ian Anderson Youngsters these days are a fickle lot, or so it seems, as every time a new pub,…
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HERITAGE
Heritage: Merdeka Heritage
By Ian Anderson As the sixty-second Merdeka approaches, the commercial instinct to make money wherever possible has come to the…
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Nostalgia
Nostalgia: One Man’s Rubbish is Another Man’s Collectable
By Ian Anderson The British first arrived in India in 1758, as the British East India Company. In 1858, the…
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Heritage: Shorthand – Heritage or Outdated Skill?
By Ian Anderson In the good old days, little girls always wanted to be film stars and little boys, train…
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Heritage: It’s 1937 and Kampar Celebrates
British Malaya, like all other countries under British rule, took great effort in marking any major event in Britain with…
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HERITAGE
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
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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Arts & Culture
Fond Memories of Ipoh: Hume Street Art Gallery
Hume Street Art Gallery – Near Old Mosque In old town Ipoh opposite the old Mosque existed a fine Gallery The owner…
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HERITAGE
Sharing Ipoh’s Heritage with Community
Committing to its annual corporate social responsibility project, Henkel Malaysia (Ipoh) recently donated tin ingots of archaeological value to Han…
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