THE letter by Wan Mohamed Salih, "Clear petty traders from Taiping Lake Garden"(NST, Feb 9), has my support. I have seen the goings-on from the New Club to the end of the road. There is now a sort of pasar malam there. [...more]
Ntv7’s new drama series Glowing Embers revolves around Taiping’s charcoal industry. [...more]
PLUS Expressways Bhd ( 5052 ), the country's largest toll highway operator, has cautioned promoters of the second north-south highway, saying that the project is not viable currently. [...more]
MALAYSIANS look destined to go down in history as great, probably compulsive, road builders. And the news last week that another highway is in the works to link the northern and southern parts of Peninsular Malaysia has certainly strengthened that prospect. [...more]
IPOH, March 4 (Bernama) -- Perak Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir Thursday questioned the "exorbitant" RM37 million demanded by the Railway Assets Corporation for the railway reserve land in Kuala Sepetang which the federal government decided to hand over to Perak for the 300 occupants there. [...more]
TAIPING, Feb 27 — Perak Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir said today there will be no reshuffle of the State Executive Council (Exco) in the near future as they have only been appointed to their respective portfolios quite recently. [...more]
TAIPING, Feb 26 — The position of Islam as a religion which is protected by the Federal Constitution and placed directly under the power of the Rulers must be understood and respected, said the Sultan of Perak, Sultan Azlan Shah. The Sultan also said that while the followers of other faiths are allowed to practise their respective religion peacefully, these religions are not allowed to be ... [...more]
Chess development in the country will be given a boost with the arrival of Bangladeshi grandmaster Ziaur Rahman. [...more]
KAMPUNG GAJAH, Feb 24 (Bernama) -- Police found parts of 17 motorcycles in a canal here and believe they have exposed a gang stealing the machines to use the parts for illegal racing. [...more]
I WAS born in 1957 in Yam Seng estate in Semanggol, near Taiping. My father, S. Krishnasamy, was headmaster of the Tamil primary school there but later moved to Kamunting, where he became an ordinary teacher, so that we could go to King Edward VII school in Taiping. [...more]
