Industrial romance

  Ask those familiar with USJ 19’s commercial spaces and they will probably tell you about the sleepy neighbourhood mall and the numerous vehicle workshops and related businesses that dominate the rows of shops there.

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Timeless treasures

Where else but in Malaysia is “Have you eaten?” an appropriate alternative to “Good morning”, when salutations are exchanged at the start of the day? Yes, “Dah makan?” is not just a greeting but, in truth, a clue to the collective psyche of the Malaysian people.

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Where the unwanted gets a second life

Under the loving devotion of Happy Tan, the abandoned is given a home, the unwanted acquires dignity, the ugly is transformed to admired beauty and the useless becomes priceless.

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Renaissance place

It would have been too easy for APW (formerly known as Art Printing Works Sdn Bhd) to yield to the steady march of progress.

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Growing the Dusun

Hidden in the jungles of Pantai, Negeri Sembilan is the Dusun (Orchard), a collection of seven homes amid a durian plantation.

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Swept by tides of change

History has it that when miners from China sailed up the Klang River searching for tin in 1857, they anchored at the confluence of the Klang River and Gombak River as it was the furthest point up the Klang River that could accommodate supply boats.

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