Penning for the Pictures
by
Regina Hoo
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Cinemas of Old Had Their Own Identity and Architectural Design
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FOR JUST 40 sen, many of us got to buy a third-class ticket to watch a movie. A third-class ticket meant sitting on the first three rows of a cinema with our ne...
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Inhabiting a World Populated by Pieces of Art
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GEORGE TOWN WAS a sensory feast for artist Ono Kang on his walks to school many years ago. He was especially charmed by the colourfully tiled five-foot ways, an...
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A Cineplex Business that Intends to Survive the Crisis
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A Brief History of 123 Macalister
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The 109.38-hectare (ha) George Town UNESCO World Heritage Site (WHS) contains more than 1,700 buildings, making it the largest collection of pre-war buildings i...
