SS Quah's Anything Goes

In the last few weeks, I've noticed that the old Straits Echo building at the junction of Penang Road and Dato Koyah Road has been under...

I was invited to join some friends from the PFS Class of 1971 for dinner last night on the island. Had a whale of a time renewing my acquain...

From the Straits Echo of 27 August 1903, here is the fourth instalment of the newspaper's History of Penang. The first three parts of th...

From the Straits Echo of 25 August 1903, here is the third instalment of the newspaper's History of Penang. Click here for Part One and...

From the Straits Echo of 18 August 1903, I shall continue with the second instalment of the newspaper's History of Penang. Click  here  ...

My thanks to my fellow facebooker, Jeffery Seow, for highlighting this story which had appeared initially in the Straits Echo in 1903. It wa...