St Michael’s Institution in Ipoh in the late 1940s, just a few years after the Japanese had occupied the school during the Second World War.
Sep 062011
Aug 242011
It was a concerted civil society postcard campaign around 1990 that pressured the state government to stop any development on Penang Hill.
Jun 122011
Tunglang takes us on another journey to the past in old George Town, Penang, this time recalling the street performances put up by Chinese medicine men in Magazine Circus in the 1960s.
Jun 102011
Here’s something that some ex-Xaverians found out when they attended a reunion bash: St Xavier’s Institution in Penang is probably the oldest surviving formal school in the land.
May 252011
An article in theSun today discusses loopholes that could allow four high-rise condo towers to be built on a site in Pykett Avenue, Penang, where one stood a mansion that was demolished without local council approval. Are we heading for a Metropole Hotel-style ‘solution’?