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HERITAGE
Heritage: A Heritage that Spans 115 Years
By Ian Anderson Ipoh was a dreadful place in the 1880s with hundreds of Chinese immigrants living cheek by jowl…
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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: 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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Conservation
Cover Story: An Echo Worth Hearing
By The Ipoh Echo Team How time flies. Ipoh’s only community newspaper, and perhaps the only one in the whole…
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History
Fond Memories of Ipoh: Birch Gardens in the Sixties
The bloody Seafield temple incident late last year prompted me to pen my memories. This is in response to Ipoh…
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HERITAGE
The Dato’ Sri Adika Raja, the most influential Malay in 1900s Ipoh
After the death of the tenth Dato’ Panglima Kinta Mohamed Yusuf in 1903, Dato’ Sri Adika Raja, Wan Mohamed Salleh…
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History
An Update On The Forgotten Six-mile Tunnel
Ipoh Echo featured the six-mile tunnel in Issue 16, 2006 (the year Ipoh Echo was founded). Not much has been…
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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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History
Dr Wu Lien Teh
Dr Wu Lien Teh was born in Penang in March 1879, educated at Penang Free School and Cambridge University and…
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