Dreaming In Broome: Of Pearls, Migration And Being "Malay"
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DURING MY VISIT to the Broome Historical Museum to learn about its pearling industry, my attention was drawn towards an…
Edgecumbe on Penang Hill: A Trip up Memory Lane
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PERCHED HIGH ON Penang Hill and setback from a road which has a gradient of 45 degrees, sits Edgecumbe. This…
Places of Worship In Penang Photographed by The Traveller, Jules Claine
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JULES CLAINE WAS a French explorer and diplomat who spent a year travelling across Malaysia in 1889 and 1890, photographing…
A Penang Comprador: “There Was Always Carlsberg beer in the House”
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TAN HENG SOON (1894-1962), a Straits-born Baba, was a comprador for the Danish East Asiatic Company, a prestigious European company established in 1897 by H.N....