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  • Church of the Immaculate Conception, September 2010

    The September site visit, delayed on account of Ramadan and the Malaysia Day holidays, took place on Sunday, 19th September at the Church of Immaculate Conception on Burmah Road in Pulau Tikus. 45 PHT members and friends took part. The church was founded by Portuguese Eurasians who settled in Penang to escape persecution in Phuket. They were latecomers -- an earlier wave of Catholic immigrants arrived in Penang from Kedah in 1786 with Captain Francis Light and founded the Church of the Assumption on Farquhar Street.

  • Penang General Hospital, October 2010

    The sprawling complex of Penang General Hospital was the venue for the PHT site visit on Sunday afternoon, 3rd October. Some 31 PHT members and friends assembled at the hospital’s main entrance in Block B. Now known as Hospital Pulau Pinang and previously as Hospital Besar Pulau Pinang, this is the biggest public hospital in Penang and second largest in the country.

  • Cintra Street and The Pre-War Japanese Community, January 2011

    On Sunday afternoon 9th January, 72 members and friends of PHT gathered at the corner of Cintra Street and Kampung Malabar to follow a trail to the former Japanese quarter of Penang led by Clement Liang. Very little physical evidence remains today to remind us that any Japanese community ever existed there and only the names of the streets in Chinese and the interpretative signboards on the old wall bear witness to their presence once upon a time.

  • Ipoh and The Kinta Valley, June 2011

    After a postponement in March, a site visit five years in the making finally saw the light of day when on Saturday morning 18th June 20 PHT members including our guide Tim and Sheau Fung, our manager, assisted by Pei Ling, assembled at the Caring Society Complex. The bus left at 8.20 a.m. and reached the Regal Lodge hotel in Ipoh at 11.30a.m. En route, Tim gave a brief introduction to the history of Ipoh and the Kinta Valley.

  • Lee Rubber Factory, Oct 2011

    PAYA TERUBONG, PENANG - The last remaining rubber factory on the island, the Lee Rubber Co Pte Ltd in Paya Terubong, is due to close down early in 2012, after operating for 50 years. A large group of PHT members were given a rare chance on 2 October of a guided tour through the production plant, together with a fascinating illustrated presentation on the A-to-Z of the rubber business by Mr Ooi Boon Chye, the Lee Rubber Group Quality Assurance Manager of 43 years’ service.