Tuesday 9 July 2024

Wrong facts

Saw this picture from Tourism Melaka on facebook. However, according to Serge Jardin, there are lots of errors in the text, of which he listed down quite a number. It's quite a shame - I'm not going to say "shameful" but oops, I just did -  that nobody edited or factchecked it. Tourism Melaka could have done better; in fact, much better! Anyway, Jardin wrote:

PLEASE, TOURISM MELAKA, YOU SHOULDN’T TAKE TOURISTS FOR STUPID, THANK YOU.

In your latest guidebook (see photo): 

1/ “The Emperor bequeathed Hang Li Poh to Sultan Muzaffar Shah.” 

She married Sultan Mansur Shah.

2/ “The arrival of the Portuguese in the 15th century under Alfonso de Albuquerque”

1511 is the 16th century.   

3/ “the Portuguese ruled for the next 150 years”

1511 – 1641 is 130 years. 

4/ “the European invasion back in the 14th century”

1511 is definitively the 16th century.   

5/ “After independence, a colonial building was built by the British, which was known as Melaka Club”

The new Malacca Club was built in 1912. 

6/ “Melaka celebrating 750 years in history”

1400 – 2024 is 624 years.  

7/ “Queen Victoria’s Fountain was built in 1901 to commemorate Her Diamond Jubilee.”

It was built in 1904, to commemorate the death of a Great Queen, as Her Diamond Jubilee was commemorated in 1897.

8/ “In 1574, St Francis Xavier died in a ship”

He died in 1552, on Sangchuan Island, China. 

9/ “Melaka Stamps Museum”

It is definitively closed for four years already. 

10/ “Poh San Temple built in 1754 at the foot of Bukit Cina”

It was built in 1795. 

Just to name a few, not mentioning mistakes about Cheng Ho, A Famosa, Porta de Santiago, the museums and the Dutch bastions, St Paul Church and Cheng Hoon Temple, etc. 

Is there somebody in charge?

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