Or the Importance of Sex Education The rate of teenage pregnancies and abandoned babies nationwide is alarming. Ipoh is not immune to this and while our community leaders, experts, police and NGOs debate about how to resolve this issue, babies continue to be dumped. Many see sex education as a means of empowering young teenagers [...]
In the autumn of 2011, Kampar, Perak, Malaysia, will finally receive its own splendidly unique museum dedicated to the preservation of its tin mining inheritance. Following heritage initiatives of the tin museum in Selangor (Klang Tin Museum) and the Sungai Lembing Museum in Pahang (dedicated to the memory of tin mining in that area), the [...]
An uncle of mine used to jog the two kilometres to his favourite nasi lemak stall, wash two ‘bungkus’ of nasi lemak down with teh tarik, then telephone his son to fetch him home, in the car. That was his ‘morning exercise’. My friends promptly pay their monthly gym fees, but have yet to attend [...]
Few will have heard of him but his name is V. Murugeson and he died on 11 July 2010 after a short illness. Murugeson had been the earliest distributor of The Star in Lumut when the newspaper was first published in 1971. His son said, “When he started out as a vendor in the early [...]
The following are my reasons to tempt my friends and family to visit Ipoh.
We trawled over the last remaining dredge, stepped out and up at Kellie’s Castle and climbed once more into our aging jeep heading down the road to an area rapidly becoming renowned for its tranquil lakes and lush parklands – Taman Herba.
“The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.” That is Mother.
Isabella Bird, the Victorian lady, described in ‘The Golden Chersonese’ the beautiful Perak countryside when she visited Malaya in 1879.
Brother Vincent Corkery, who had served a span of over 60 years in educating thousands of our citizens, only wishes to be a Malaysian Citizen and spend the rest of his life in this country.
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