Born in Ipoh. Built for the World.
Our writing on Ipoh, the wider world and the families who make our history.
Tin, trains and the people who built our hometown.
The loan sharks wanted a girl of 15 as payment for her father's debts. Her family slipped out the back door. More than a century later, the YLCO Gallery of Families, The Living Archive (formerly the YLCO Museum), sits in…
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The story of Ban Loong (萬隆號), the Loh family's general merchants and hardware shop at 51 Leech Street (Jalan Bandar Timah), Ipoh, and how fourth-generation engineer Ir Loh Ban Ho turned it into Ban Loong Hotel.
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He came up the Kinta River in 1892 and started in a tin-mine kitchen. A shipwreck, a fortune teller and a brother's death later, Ipoh named a road after him.
Read more →Global stories from China (in Mandarin) and Kazakhstan (in Russian), plus our City of Millionaires talks.
Около двух тысяч детей, которые раньше учились только дома, впервые пришли в обычный класс. Как Казахстан строит инклюзивную школу для 237 тысяч детей с особыми образовательными потребностями и чего ещё не хватает.
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Тысячу лет назад по степи шли караваны, сегодня — контейнерные поезда. Как Транскаспийский маршрут, порты Каспия и сухой порт Хоргос снова делают Казахстан перекрёстком континента и какие профессии он открывает молодёжи.
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Шымкенту больше 2 200 лет, а его главное богатство только идёт в первый класс. Как древнее городище, предприниматели и одна из самых высоких рождаемостей в стране сделали Шымкент третьим миллионником Казахстана.
Read more →Every family in Ipoh carries a piece of the city's story.
The loan sharks wanted a girl of 15 as payment for her father's debts. Her family slipped out the back door. More than a century later, the YLCO Gallery of Families, The Living Archive (formerly the YLCO Museum), sits in…
Read more →He came up the Kinta River in 1892 and started in a tin-mine kitchen. A shipwreck, a fortune teller and a brother's death later, Ipoh named a road after him.
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He arrived in 1899 and started out as someone else's clerk. He ended up planning names for great-grandchildren he would never meet. One of them would carry an Oscar home to Ipoh.
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