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Nostalgia
Nostalgia: Lets Go on a Pub Crawl
By Ian Anderson Over the years, Ipoh has fostered many pubs, but none lasted for too long, apart from the…
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HERITAGE
Heritage: Where Have the Old Pubs Gone?
By Ian Anderson Youngsters these days are a fickle lot, or so it seems, as every time a new pub,…
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HERITAGE
Heritage: Merdeka Heritage
By Ian Anderson As the sixty-second Merdeka approaches, the commercial instinct to make money wherever possible has come to the…
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Nostalgia
Nostalgia: Memories of Merdeka
By Ian Anderson While Tunku Abdul Rahman was doing his famous Merdeka performance in the Stadium in Kuala Lumpur on…
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Nostalgia
Nostalgia: “Schooling Doesn’t Assure Employment, but Skill Does”
By Ian Anderson “Schooling Doesn’t Assure Employment, but Skill Does,” so said Amit Kalantri, author, magician and mentalist, recently, and…
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HERITAGE
Heritage: Shorthand – Heritage or Outdated Skill?
By Ian Anderson In the good old days, little girls always wanted to be film stars and little boys, train…
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Heritage: It’s 1937 and Kampar Celebrates
British Malaya, like all other countries under British rule, took great effort in marking any major event in Britain with…
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HERITAGE
Heritage: An Ipoh Centenarian Still Going Strong
The idea of a Chinese recreation club began when Dr K.T. Khong came down to Ipoh from Penang, in 1912,…
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Letters
Letter: The Milo Man
With reference to the article “Here comes the Milo Man” (Ipoh Echo issue 305, Jun 1-15, 2019), I hereby would…
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Nostalgia
Nostalgia: Necessity is the Mother of Invention
By Ian Anderson The bicycle was invented by a Scotsman, Kirkpatrick MacMillan, as long ago as 1839. He was a…
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