Ipoh Echo interviews M. Gokoolaram Naidu (Ram), Executive Legal Officer of Perak Legal Aid Centre & Human Rights Committee. Ipoh Echo: Give us an overview of the Perak Legal Aid Centre. Ram: The Bar Council Legal Aid Centre of Perak was formed in late 1984. When I joined the Centre I had to work from [...]
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 [...]
Recently, there has been a lot of talk about promoting Ipoh – the City That Tin Built, as a tourists’ destination, all of which was looking at a bigger picture of some ambitious plan or project. What these plans failed to do was to take note of some of the seemingly minor details that needed [...]
Malaysia’s 53 years of independence may have been celebrated on a subdued scale as it was held during the fasting month of Ramadan but nevertheless it was a morning full of colour and grandeur at the Perak Stadium. The theme for this year’s celebration was: “1 MALAYSIA: GENERATING TRANSFORMATION” A total of 37 contingents consisting [...]
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 [...]
Ipoh City Watch (ICW) for no apparent reasons has virtually disappeared from the radar screen.
By G. Sivapragasam SMI Class Of ‘60 For me and my classmates, the end of the 1960 school year in St Michael’s Institution marked the end of life as we had known for most of our conscious years. We had graduated. Some went on to Form Six; others went overseas while still others began working. [...]
It is said that a photograph speaks a thousand words. Certainly this photograph (above) taken at the entrance of Taman One Pertama in the Silibin area recently is no exception. It too could describe with a thousand words, the irresponsible attitude of the residents in the area. Look at the metal loader, which was meant [...]
I guess you have to have the ‘gift of the gab’ to be a successful Emcee and that is what K.T. Pillai has in abundance. Effervescent as a glass of champagne, one will probably have to ‘cork’ him up for him to stop talking….and in a multitude of languages at that. Fluent in Malay, Chinese [...]
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