My heart starts beating significantly faster by the time I finish reading the second paragraph.
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January 25, 2021 in Environment, Sitiawan
Growing up in: Sitiawan’s small-town comforts
MOST people from small towns tend to have the same memories of wide open spaces, great food and wonderful neighbours.
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TAIPING'S grand dame of buildings isn’t a stately hotel or an ornate government office frequented primarily by the rich and powerful.
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October 20, 2020 in Food, Sitiawan
Visit Ayer Tawar & Sitiawan Now Before They Become Tourist Magnets!
Get swept up with the energy in this jam-packed, town-hopping itinerary which showcases the best of Ayer Tawar, Sitiawan and Lumut in the Manjung District without breaking the bank.
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October 20, 2020 in Culture, Sitiawan
Retired Perak headmaster promotes Chinese culture, traditional games online amid Covid-19
SITIAWAN, June 18 — Retired headmaster Wee Ong Chin has been showcasing Chinese culture and traditional games at fundraising events for over three decades.
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Kampung Koh is one of the original villages making up the sprawling settlement of Sitiawan, close to the town of Lumut and nearby to Pangkor Island.
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The fort on Pangkor Island is called Kota Belanda ('Dutch fort') by local Malays and is located at a place called Teluk Gedung.
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YI POH LOU SHU FUN 姨婆老鼠粉的故事 – THE UNTOLD STORY
‘So who is the person you called Yi Poh?’ I asked Thong Chee Kong the owner of Yi Poh Loh Shee Fun and he answered ‘Yi Poh is my grandmother’s sister and together with my grandfather they all migrated to Seremban from China to escape poverty’
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Koay Jetty: The social evolution of the Hui people in Penang
The Hui are one of the main minority groups in China. They are the descendants of Arabian and Middle Eastern peoples.
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Indian Muslims in Penang: Role and contributions
The exact year of the first arrival of Indian Muslims in Penang or elsewhere in the Malayan Peninsular is not known.
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Battle of Penang: When Malay fishermen rescued Russian sailors
During the First World War, when the German light cruiser SMS Emden sunk the Russian protected cruiser Zhemchug off Penang, local fisherman rushed into the Strait of Malacca in small boats to save the lives of over 100 Russian sailors.
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Arlene Terrace
The Restoration of Arlene Terrace (Formerly known as Towkay Leong Kin shop-house and operated as Heng Woh Shoe Shop)
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Arlene House (Chung Thye Phin Building)
The conservation, preservation and restoration of Arlene House - 1905 (Also known as Kapitan Chung Thye Phin Building and Phin Kee Chan), located at No 18, Jalan Dato Maharaja Lela (Station Road), 30000 Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.
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Project Street of Harmony by 1982 Right Livelihood Award Laureate Anwar Fazal
Street of Harmony project on Penang Island (Malaysia) celebrates mutual tolerance illustrated by this amazingly cosmopolitan micrososm.
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8 “Must eat” food when visiting Sabah
What is the “must eat” in Sabah? I got asked this question a lot and many local Sabahan seems to be at lost what food to recommend their visiting friends.
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Sandakan Memorial Park, Sabah
The Sandakan Memorial Park commemorates a tragedy and an atrocity.
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History of Sabah
Sabah, which was known as North Borneo before it joined the Malaysian Federation in 1963, was part of the Sultanate of Brunei in the 16th century while the north-eastern coast of the state became part of the Sultanate of Sulu which was centered in the southern islands of the Philippines.
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The North Borneo Railway Project
The romance of an old steam train.... A ride on the North Borneo Railway is truly a journey of rediscovery into the heart of Borneo.
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Zacharevic moves on to five more masterpieces on Kuching walls
Zacharevic definitely made his mark here as viral images of a runaway wheelbarrow full of eight baby orang utan and another young orang utan hanging onto a gutter pipe in Jalan Power here exploded on social media.
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Talang-satang National Park
Sarawak’s first marine national park, Talang-Satang was established with the primary aim of conserving Sarawak’s marine turtle population.
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Seeing tourism through the eyes of Sarawak’s ‘big village’
Kuching is a big village, a kampung besar. This is an honest perspective from an outsider after spending two weeks in Sarawak’s capital, a remote outpost of Borneo that is somewhat more than a town but less than a city.
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Truly cool Kuching
The Kuching Esplanade has a number of open green spaces housing conserved structures or cafes like this named after the white rajah — James Brooke.
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Explore Kuching Heritage in 2 hours
Take a quick look around Kuching and you will certainly notice a historic building or site, stately and unique, enchanting always; these are just some of the attractive charms of the city.
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Places of Worship
There is no definite evidence which dates the first Indian voyages across the bay of Bengal but conservative estimates place the earliest arrivals to Malay shores at least 1,700 years ago.
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Le Tour De Langkawi 2020
Le Tour de Langkawi merupakan satu acara jelajah lumba berbasikal di lebuh raya yang diadakan di Malaysia setiap tahun.
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