Lest We Forget - Penang Monthly (Page 3)

The Deep Legacy of Indian Immigration to the Malay Peninsula

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The ties between India and Malaya go back millennia. Silappadikaram, 1 a second-century Tamil epic, highlighted that Tamil merchants were operating from a Mal...

Railways – The Iron Spine of Malaya

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The formation of the very first railway system in the Malay Peninsula in the late nineteenth century revolutionised the way economic commodities were transporte...

James Dollery Fettes and Penang Waterworks: A Legacy of Public Service (Part 1)

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JALAN TANJONG TOKONG, the main thoroughfare leading to the tourist beaches of Batu Ferringhi, is often clogged with traffic during public holidays. Torrents of...

General on the Great Hill: US Civil War Hero Visits Penang – Part 1

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Enter the GeneralON FRIDAY, March 28, 1879, the 1,615-tonne schooner, S.S. Simla[1] of the British-India Navigation Company (B.I.S.N. Co) – a swift, “pleas...

The Japanese Conquest of Penang: Part One

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THE OVERWHELMING FOCUS on the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 19411 as the start of the Pacific War means that the actual first shot is largely forgotten...