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A Pageant to Highlight Beauty’s Depth
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THE SAYING THAT beauty is only skin deep is evident in beauty pageantries. But one stands as an exception in Malaysia as it calls attention to the self-empowerm...
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A Penang Comprador: “There Was Always Carlsberg beer in the House”
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TAN HENG SOON (1894-1962), a Straits-born Baba, was a comprador for the Danish East Asiatic Company, a prestigious European company established in 1897 by H.N....
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