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History
Nostalgia: Remembering New Pasir Puteh
By Ian Anderson Three of ipohWorld’s staunch supporters Mano, LMS and SK, lived in New Pasir Puteh in the late…
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HERITAGE
History: A Char Kway Teow Stall in Fair Park
By Ian Anderson On June 16, 1948, at 8.30am, Communist sympathisers killed three British planters in Sungai Siput. This marked…
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Nostalgia
Nostalgia: Mobile Hawkers, Accessible and Affordable
By Ian Anderson Ipoh has an abundance of restaurants – “too many”, some citizens would say, but restaurants are a…
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HERITAGE
The Foochows of Sitiawan
By Ian Anderson In the National Census of 1901, the British Colonial Government recorded a dramatic increase in the population…
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Nostalgia
Nostalgia: Kledang Hill In The 1950s
By Ian Anderson Kledang Hill has been in the news lately because of the dramatic clearing of its trees and…
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Nostalgia
Nostalgia: LAU EK CHING – Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
By Ian Anderson Lau Ek Ching, born in 1880 in Fuzhou, Fujian province, to Cantonese parents, was one of the…
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HERITAGE
Heritage: A Mansion, Motherhood and a Murder
By Ian Anderson Most local people are aware of the Kinta Medical Centre (KMC) and its supporting role in the…
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Nostalgia
Nostalgia: Some Famous Ipoh Indians
Perhaps the very first of these was Shaik Adam, founder of the Mohammedan Mosque by the Padang. He started his…
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Nostalgia
Nostalgia: Bangsawan, the Malay Opera
By Ian Anderson This photograph shows a Malay opera or Bangsawan troupe. Bangsawan is a form of traditional Malay opera…
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