ipoh history
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Books
Discover and Learn More with The Untold Story of Ipoh
Ipohites can now purchase their very own copy of ‘Ipoh: The Untold Story’, a photo book detailing the undisclosed sides…
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HERITAGE
Who’s in Han Chin Pet Soo – Concubine Soo (Episode 2)
You met Ah Lee yesterday when he was playing Mahjong with friends. As usual, he was wearing a horse riding…
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HERITAGE
Who’s in Han Chin Pet Soo – Towkay Ah Lee (Episode 1)
The streets and lanes of Ipoh are empty. There are no visitors to the museum but, behind the closed doors…
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Nostalgia
Nostalgia: Architecture of the Night
By Ian Anderson Architecture of the night or nocturnal architecture is a fancy term for floodlighting buildings to show off…
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Nostalgia: Boutique Hotels of Old
By Ian Anderson The last time I looked at a website for Ipoh hotels I discovered that it claimed that…
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Featured
Heritage: Ipoh’s Green Lungs
Ipoh has changed dramatically over the last 20 years I have lived here. Wonderful old trees have been cut down…
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Nostalgia
Nostalgia: Times Change
By Ian Anderson There is no doubt that things have to change as we cannot stay in a sort of…
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Conservation
Cover Story: Chew Museum: Yeoh-Lim-Chew and Beyond
By Tan Mei Kuan and SeeFoon Chan-Koppen Opened in 2013, the two-storey Chew Museum is located in a bungalow behind Ban Hoe…
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HERITAGE
Cover Story: Chew Museum: Yeoh-Lim-Chew and Beyond
By Tan Mei Kuan and SeeFoon Chan-Koppen Opened in 2013, the two-storey Chew Museum is located in a bungalow behind Ban Hoe…
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HERITAGE
Heritage: Chew Boon Juan, the Chew Family Patriarch
By Ian Anderson Ipoh has a number of successful Chinese family’s well-known names like Foo, Lee, Yap, Lim, Yeoh and…
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