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 [...]
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. [...]
Ipoh’s second Mayor Dato’ Ismail Shah Bodin was a man with a vision – to see Ipoh City Council become a caring one.
Might the Perak state government’s controversial cable-car project linking Taiping to Bukit Larut, go the same way as the Penang botanical gardens project dubbed ‘the fallen arches’?
On the June 10, the New Straits Times reported that the Perak government wants Lenggong Valley to be declared a world heritage site.
What has happened to the proposal to redevelop the location of Ipoh’s once well-known landmark – Yau Tet Shin Market?
Just as I had expressed my fear earlier (IE93) that any plan to relocate the last of the giant tin dredge and preserve it as a heritage of the once renowned tin mining industry in the Kinta Valley will face a whopping bill.
At one time, Ipoh imported the most Mercedes Benz cars and French brandy in the whole world. That was during the rubber and tin era. Now we are in the doldrums.
The HAVEN promoted with the tag line ‘Pride of Ipoh – Envy of the Nation’ has come under some harsh criticism.
The need for a good viable commercial airport in Ipoh has been felt ever since Air Asia abandoned the Sultan Azlan Shah Airport in 2006, citing unsuitable runway as the reason.
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