Category: Letters
Rape of the Polo Ground
I am a resident of Ipoh who enjoys a bit of nature by way of some brisk walking at the Polo Ground and regular climbs up Kledang Hill where we can still be blessed with some fresh air and greenery and a suitable place for sweating it out after a long day of work and [...]
Polo Ground
With reference to the letter “Polo Ground” published in issue 125. This is the reply from the Mayor’s office: The Council issued two compounds in August 2011 for the offence of failing to renew vendor licences. The Council is also awaiting approval from the Perak State Government to allow the former Restaurant D’Pollo site to [...]
Cleanliness and Civic Consciousness Sorely Lacking In Ipoh
I am part of the management corporation for the Intan 2 building in the Lebuh Medan Ipoh area, located behind Ipoh’s famous Jusco shopping centre. Our management corporation has made many complaints to the city council about the poor garbage collection and maintenance of cleanliness in this area. The drains are so clogged up that [...]
Proposed Columbarium
The news reported in the Chinese & Star papers are hearsay, speculation, and very biased. The proposed Columbarium project is located in Ipoh Garden East, Taman Kemuncak. Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Tan Kean Choon, a graduate from International Cemetery Cremation Funeral Association (ICCFA University), certified Crematory Administrator. I am director of [...]
A Good Samaritan
I am in every way an old-fashioned man and hold strongly to my religious beliefs. Kindness will be rewarded with kindness and evil with evil, for it is predestined. After being around for three scores and a half and having seen how modernity affects the way we live and interact, I tend to be a [...]
‘Efficient’ Public Transport System
I refer to your article “Update on Bus Services for Perak” (Ipoh Echo Issue 123) and wish to highlight the following: Ipoh bus service is still poor in spite of the many new buses plying the city routes. There is still no bus serving the Bercham-Tasek Industrial area route although a large number of people [...]
“Annual Assessment a Necessary Evil”
I read your editorial on the above subject with great amount of interest at least initially. What you have exhaustively detailed in your article is just one side of the story – the story of what assessment rates we the Ipoh property owners are being levied with by City Hall. Nothing is mentioned about how [...]
Street Names
Recently when we lost one of our most outstanding architect-engineers, Tan Sri Stanley Edward Jewkes, many including Tun Ahmad Sarji wrote about his contribution to our country. His remarkable workmanship includes the Stadium Merdeka (1957) and Stadium Negara (1962). One letter to the editor even suggested that a street be named after him. Truly, not [...]
Polo Ground
In February 2010, Ipoh Echo first brought to light the issue of street vendors and hawkers who set up unsightly stalls at Taman Rekreasi Sultan Abdul Aziz (more popularly known as “Pologround”), a sorry situation that takes away all the appeal of the park. Fast forward to a year later, and sadly, the situation has [...]
Keeping Ipoh Clean
Ipoh City Council’s catchy tag-line, “Ipoh Bersih, Hijau dan Membangun” or “Ipoh Clean, Green and Progressing” is misleading, to say the least. It was recently announced that Kampong Sg Rokam would be the city’s first litter-free zone. The programme was launched on Thursday, October 20. When it comes to project launching we are on top. [...]