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A trail charming and delightful
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You can see its distinctive peak with its radio towers from miles away, jutting up from the lowlands. Easily visible even from the island, Bukit Mertajam is 545...
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Louise Goss-Custard
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No fetish for heritage here, and yet…
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I was looking out of a window in the longhouse when a local resident asked if I could spot the ancient stone mound, called a perupun in the local language, whic...
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Carolyn Hong
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Festivals of significance: A writer’s view of literary festivals
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In Malaysia, every year is a year of festivals
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Timing is everything, and for local writer Keith Hockton to have released his book, Festivals of Malaysia, this year, well, one might have thought he had inside...
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