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Article: Resurrecting Papan to glorify its proud heritage
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- New Straits Times
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- September 28, 2004
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Casey Ng
New Straits Times
09-28-2004
Resurrecting Papan to glorify its proud heritage
Byline: Casey Ng
Edition: 2*
"A LITTLE boy, son of Raja Bilah, insisted on giving me a tame black monkey," Sir Fredick Weld, then head of the colonial government, noted in his diary in 1882.
Having spent a restless night in the `balek' (court house), the governor had a busy day in Papan and the cheeky Raja Yacob succeeded in breaking the Anglo Saxon's otherwise straight face into smiles.
Today's Papan is but a ghost town, the leftover of long- forgotten people haunting modern-day visitors with memories of a tumultuous past.
This is a town that embodies and best summarises Malaysia's early tin mining days.
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Article: Books received: JSEAS 2004, 3.
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies;
October 1, 2004 ;
700+ words
... ... Singapore: University of Washington Press in association with Singapore University Press. ISBN 0-295-98392-2 Malaysia Raja Bilah and the Mandailings in Perak: 1875-1911 By ABDUR-RAZZAQ and LUBIS KHOO SALMA NASUTION. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Branch ...
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