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 [...]
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.
Isabella Bird, the Victorian lady, described in ‘The Golden Chersonese’ the beautiful Perak countryside when she visited Malaya in 1879.
Do we really need celebrities to be our reading ambassadors? Are we only motivated when famous people are involved?
Ask anyone about Ipoh and 99% of them will say it is a boring place. How can the scene of political struggles, of nature at one’s doorstep, of a place where the people can still find time for you, be termed boring?
The Orang Asli (OA) have suffered for too long, with scores of people taking advantage of them on the pretext of helping them.
Pulses are set to race when Singapore director Eric Khoo films the long awaited movie Mei Gui Xiang (The Charming Rose), about Malaysia’s Striptease Queen, Rose Chan.
There is something marvellous about living in Ipoh. Set in the Kinta valley, surrounded by limestone hills and mining ponds, nature couldn’t be closer
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