News by Jerry Francis

More such schemes will gradually be set up all over Ipoh and other parts of Perak.

Just five years ago, the section on the right bank of the Kinta River, which bisects Old Town and New Town, was home to largely  dilapidated or condemned buildings and vacant business premises – the result of the collapse of the tin-mining industry in the Kinta Valley in the mid-1980s

Ipoh folk are opting to live in high rises instead of landed property because of the better security afforded by the former.

A number of the old buildings in Concubine Lane have been redeveloped and given a new facade. Others are works in progress.