Through the wheels of time January 29, 2021 – Posted in: In The News, Reviews

Arnold Loh, The Star THE nostalgia hits many locals on busy Penang Road. From the Chulia Street-Penang Road junction towards Komtar, commuters will come across parallel steel tramlines, built sometime between 1880 and 1906. Road builders dug them up by accident in 2004 while replacing underground utility cables. To make them invulnerable to the grinding wheel of time, the road running along the tramlines is encased not in normal asphalt but solid concrete. This preserved…

Penang trams – Posted in: In The News

This page is about Penang Trams. George Town was one of the first cities in the region to introduce trams, ahead of even Calcutta and Singapore. A steam tramway with a single metre gauge line commenced operation in the 1880s linking Weld Quay in the town centre with Ayer Itam, four miles away across picturesque scenery and coconut plantations. It was used both as a passenger service and to transport farm produce to the docks…

Kenali Chitty–masyarakat India Peranakan di Malaysia yang semakin pupus January 6, 2021 – Posted in: In The News

Osman Affandi29 Nov 2018 Perkataan Baba itu merujuk kepada lelaki sementara Nyonya pula bermaksud wanita. Peranakan pula bermaksud keturunan dimana mereka adalah keturunan nenek moyang mereka yang telah berhijrah ke sini. Dari segi bahasa pula, mereka bertutur dalam bahasa Melayu dan kebiasaannya hanya golongan-golongan berumur sahaja yang pandai bertutur dalam bahasa Hokkien. Masyarakat Baba Nyonya ini begitu sinonim dengan negeri Melaka dan di Melaka, terdapat sebuah muzium khas Baba dan Nyonya yang memaparkan sejarah, latarbelakang…