FOR LOCAL TOURISTS: Walking tour celebrates city’s cultural diversity MALACCA: NESTLED in the heart of this historical city’s Jonker Street area is Harmony Street (Jalan Tukang Besi), which is a reflection of Malaysia’s cultural and religious diversity. This hidden treasure is home to some of the country’s oldest places of worship for the Muslims, Buddhists, [...]
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By R.S.N.MURALI MALACCA: Dragon boat racing originated about 2,500 years ago in China during the Han Dynasty as a traditional festival that evolved from myths and legends. Multi-coloured boats were decorated with ferocious-looking dragonheads, scaly bodies and elaborate tails that rose out of the sea. They were huge in length and just wide and long [...]
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By Shuib Taib FOOD has always been an important element as far as history and culture are concerned. Datuk Wira Latiff Tamby Chik, chairman of Malacca State Tourism, Culture and Heritage, said: “Economically, food is an important factor in tourism sub-sector. People are known to travel the world just to sample food. I believe that [...]
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By PERCY D’CRUZ MALACCA: For a week beginning on Palm Sunday (April 1) to Easter Sunday (April 8), more than 20,000 pilgrims and devotees both Christians and non-Christians, local and outstation visitors and tourists converged at Malaysia’s oldest Catholic edifice (built in 1710) the Church of St. Peter to partake, participate and witness rituals, rites [...]
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By LEO ARROKKIASAMMY MALACCA: While Tanjung Tuan continues playing host to thousands of migratory raptors and other birds, the Malacca government is seeking to promote Kampung Pengkalan in Machap here as a similar tourist destination. Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam urged the state Tourism Department and other state government departments to work towards [...]
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By PERCY D’CRUZ MALACCA: Residents at the Portuguese Settlement in Ujong Pasir here had a splashing time at the annual traditional water festival of Intrudo held the Portuguese settlement recently. Intrudo or ‘introduction’ in the local Cristao language is celebrated on the Sunday preceding Ash Wednesday, which falls on February 22. The festival can be [...]
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These photos courtesy of Sin Chew Daily.
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By R.S.N.MURALI MALACCA: Some 3,000 Malaccans from various communities witnessed the grand WangKang procession last night, a Taoist festival organised to get rid of ‘evil spirits’ snaking around the streets of the historic city. The festival, after a 10-year lapse, was organised by the century-old Yong Chuan Tian temple in Jalan Banda Hilir (Jalan Parameswara). [...]
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By ANDREW SIA A deity ‘instructs’ a Chinese temple’s devotees to build a boat and load evil spirits on it. Why? IF predictions for the year of the Black Water Dragon are to be believed, we may have to brace ourselves for calamaties such as earthquakes and tsunamis. In light of this, the grand Wangkang [...]
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By KELLY KOH LING MIN Rare procession to rid Malacca of misfortune IT is not an annual event like Chinese New Year or Chap Goh Mei, but the Wangkang Festival is nevertheless important in the Chinese calendar, especially for the Hokkien community. Wangkang is a festival which is believed to have its beginnings 150 years [...]
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