Testaments of Their Times
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Jubilee Clock Tower in George Town, Penang.It is easy to tell the time today – you have it on your wrist, or in your pocket, or on your desk, o...
Rejoicing in George Town’s Diverse Rituals
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Kuah Li Feng.This year, the George Town Heritage Celebrations, held from July 6-8, highlights the rituals and festive events of the various...
Malaya’s Ceylonese Connection
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The relationship between Malaya and Ceylon was established long before East India Company days through trade in spices, tin, elephants and peacocks.When exact...
Keepers of Heritage
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Suffolk House, the Carpenters’ Guild Loo Pun Hong, Han Jiang Ancestral Temple… the Penang Heritage Trust (PHT) has been a bastion for Penang&r...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Heritage
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It’s the word du jour, “heritage”. International organisations vote to acknowledge and list it (for protection purposes, among...
Handling the Intangibles: Heritage Management in George Town
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The road to becoming a World Heritage site was not easy for George Town and Melaka – the paperwork, inventorying, filing and so on all require...
In Search of a Place to Call Home
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In Butterworth, 10-year-old Mohamed Noor is playing football with his friends in an alley behind a row of shophouses. The children are speaking fluent...
Paintings Timelessly Watered and Coloured
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(Top) First layer. Demonstration painting at the Taman Aman lake. (Bottom) Hey Presto! The finished painting.“He (Ong Kim Seng) is versatile in hi...
Heritage in Numbers
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The George Town World Heritage site (WHS) stretches over an area of 259.42ha, with the core and buffer zones consisting 42.2% (109.38 hectares) and 57.8% (...
A Festival at Your Doorstep
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George Town Festival's various shows.It’s a bonanza of local and international acts as George Town Festival (GTF) returns for its...
George Town Caught in the Crises and Chances that Change Offers
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Saleh Rawther on Lebuh Queen has been providing stevedoring and ship chandler services for over 60 years.In the beginning, George Town was a trading...
The Feisty History of Penang SCBA
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Old photos of SCBA.During British Malaya, the creolised Chinese in Penang, Melaka and Singapore (conjoined to form the Straits Settleme...
