Images of Ipoh: The Beauty of Aging Building

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

The Beauty of Aging Building

A lot of Ipoh citizen may not realize where this row of shop houses located, but many may know where the film shooting of Ang Lee's "Lust, Caution". The shops are, in fact, have been vacant for quite some time because of its non-strategic location in New Town. However these shops at Cheng On Siew Road had attracted the film director to choose here as one of the shooting location for his movie on a World War II story.

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Ipoh, the capital city of Perak State, Malaysia, is the city that tin built. Located at the famous tin mining area, Kinta Valley, it used to be the world's largest tin mine since 19th century. Not only of its tin mine, but Ipoh also famous of its delicious food, beautiful mountain ranges, mysterious lime stone caves, attractive history & friendly citizen. Being the second in Malaysia that gain the status of city in year 1988 after Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh is one of the major cities in Malaysia with the population around 700,000. Began as a small village in 1870's, tin mine industry had brought in Chinese and Indian that boosted the town development since 1890's. The rapid growing town later upgraded to be the capital of Perak during the Japanese occupation at World War II. The rich tin resource had brought prosperity to many Ipoh miners that even make it once known as the City of Millionaires. Today, Ipoh has grown to cover a large area including the neighboring township such as Bercham, Tasek, Jelapang, Menglembu, Pengkalan, Simpang Pulai & Chemor. The city is still developing continuously while maintains its beauty of nature and harmony.