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(From New Straits Times (Malaysia))

Byline: D.M. Ponnusamy

I REFER to "Gazetting of historical buildings not done" (NST, Nov 14). I am surprised the Perak Government does not seem to show interest in preserving historical buildings in the State.

For that matter, Taiping, the oldest town in the country (1874), has not been gazetted as a Bandar Warisan. The Taiping Municipal Council has put up signboards at strategic ...

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