Cameron Highlands Malaysia

Tea Time at YTL Cameron Highlands Resort

2008-09-15T13:53:00.000+08:00

It's 3.30 pm in the Cameron Highlands, which rise some 5000 ft above sea level and are reached by a vertiginous four-hour drive winding up through the jungle from the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur. The landscape up here seems otherworldly; with high ridges as far as the eye can see covered in strangely vivid, clipped bushes which at first resemble either a vast art installation by the likes...

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Traders in Brinchang has no cause for concern

2008-09-04T12:37:00.000+08:00

No cause for concern Thursday September 4, 2008 By Clara Chooi TRADERS at the Brinchang market in Cameron Highlands can be rest assured that their business licences will not be revoked. Cameron Highlands District Council secretary Mohd Pauzi Abu Hussaini said the council had never made any plans to revoke their trading licences. “We received a letter from their lawyer telling us they are upset...

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Enduring Charm of Fraser's Hill

2008-09-03T12:35:00.000+08:00

Enduring charm Wednesday September 3, 2008 Over a Cuppa by Hoo Ban Khee Fraser’s Hill has managed to retain its character over the years. MANY travel brochures describe Fraser’s Hill as the “Little England” of Malaysia. It is an idyllic and tranquil resort perched on top of the Titiwangsa mountain range some 1,500 metres above sea level. There are scores of colonial-style stone houses...

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Check fertiliser and pesticide prices, Government urged

2008-09-02T12:33:00.000+08:00

Check fertiliser and pesticide prices, Government urged Tuesday September 2, 2008 KUANTAN: While welcoming the abolishment of import duty on fertiliser and pesticides as an-nounced in Budget 2009, Cameron Highlands vegetable farmers urged the Government to monitor prices of the products. Cameron Highlands Malay Far-mers Association chairman Syed Abdul Rahman Syed Abdul Rashid said he was...

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Farmers: Give out incentives fairly

2008-08-30T12:31:00.000+08:00

Farmers: Give out incentives fairly Saturday August 30, 2008 THE RM5.6bil provided under the National Food Security Policy for incentives to help agriculture entrepreneurs is good news to the Federation of Vegetable Sellers Associations. However, its adviser Datuk Yeoh Chip Tong said in George Town yesterday that the incentives must be distributed fairly to all who genuinely deserve it...

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Fun in the hills (for seniors)

2008-08-25T12:27:00.000+08:00

Fun in the hills Monday August 25, 2008 By George Lee Life can be lived with gusto, even in one’s senior years. WHO says seniors have to sit in one corner alone and stare at the “lost” horizon day in, day out, and miss out on all the fun? Given the opportunity, we love to get around and socialise. I look forward to the weekly fellowship on Saturdays. Seniors with cars often bring one or two...

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Highway realigned to help small towns

2008-08-15T12:21:00.000+08:00

Highway realigned to help small towns Friday August 15, 2008 KUALA TERENGGANU: The several realignments made to the East Coast Highway were to benefit the smaller towns, the state assembly was told yesterday. The state government did not want to see the smaller towns, especially Kuala Berang, turn into sleepy hollows, said Mentri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said. “We don’t want the same situation that...

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No greens from Highlands on Saturdays

2008-08-06T12:17:00.000+08:00

No greens from Highlands on Saturdays Wednesday August 6, 2008 By Clara Chooi VEGETABLES from Cameron Highlands are no longer available at the Selayang wholesale market on Saturdays. This is because the Cameron Highlands Vegetable Transport Association has temporarily stopped transporting vegetables to the market since mid-July. Other smaller markets in Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore are...

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Pahang to have a hospital in each district

2008-08-05T12:12:00.000+08:00

Pahang to have a hospital in each district Tuesday August 5, 2008 CAMERON HIGHLANDS: Two more hospitals will be built in Pahang this year to ensure all its districts have one each, Health Minister Datuk Liow Tong Lai said. Liow said the last two would be built in Rompin and Bera districts after the completion of hospitals in Cameron Highlands, Pekan and Temerloh. He said the Sultan Hajjah...

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Cameron’s blooms to cost

2008-07-31T12:10:00.000+08:00

Cameron’s blooms to cost Thursday July 31, 2008 IPOH: The price of Cameron Highland flowers will go up by 10% from Aug 8. Flower Floriculture Association chairman Lee Peng Fo said the increase was inevitable as the price of raw materials such as fertiliser and petrol had been increasing. “The last time we increased the price of flowers was in December 2004,” he told a press conference here...

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Impressed by the food and people

2008-07-25T12:08:00.000+08:00

Impressed by the food and people Friday July 25, 2008 LAST week four of us returned to New Zealand after spending two glorious weeks holidaying in Malaysia. After crossing over from Singapore, we picked up a rental vehicle from Johor Baru and departed for the east coast. Here we took one week to sink ourselves into the remoteness of your pristine beaches, amazing countryside, beautiful people...

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Fraser’s Hill or Fraser Hill?

2008-07-23T09:53:00.000+08:00

Fraser’s Hill or Fraser Hill? Wednesday July 23, 2008 I MUST thank Captain P.J. Rivers for his response (July 4) to my article on eponyms. He wondered what I could make of Cameron Highlands. Well, the place could conceivably have been called the Cameron highlands although highlands it was not, because it was man-made. Malaysia, beginning with Malacca in 1511, came under three colonial masters;...

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There’s also Cameron Highlands

2008-07-04T16:07:00.000+08:00

There’s also Cameron Highlands Friday July 4, 2008 DR Lim Chin Lam has rightly made a distinction between the British usages of Maxwell Hill and Fraser’s Hill (June 13). Just as Mount Swettenham took its name from a colonial administrator, so was Bukit Larut renamed after Sir William Maxwell when as Assistant Resident he built a government bungalow there. I’m not sure that Louis James Fraser...

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Chicken manure shortage, farmers turning to compost

2008-07-04T16:06:00.000+08:00

Chicken manure shortage, farmers turning to compost Friday July 4, 2008 Following a shortage of chicken manure, hard-pressed Cameron Highlands farmers are turning to compost as fertiliser. China Press reported yesterday that there was an acute shortage of chicken manure on the highlands now. Farmers blame the shortage of chicken manure to the skyrocketing price of non-organic fertilisers...

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Farm owner promises to halt soil erosion at Brinchang slope

2008-06-11T17:23:00.000+08:00

Farm owner promises to halt soil erosion at Brinchang slope Wednesday June 11, 2008 By Clara Chooi CAMERON HIGHLANDS: The landowner responsible for the hill cutting in Brinchang will take immediate remedial measures to prevent soil erosion. Big Red Strawberry farm owner S. Kumar said he had fitted two outlets to the silt trap ponds, and covered up several dangerous slopes with tarpaulin. He...

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Land clearing outrage in Brinchang

2008-06-07T09:57:00.001+08:00

Land clearing outrage in Brinchang Saturday June 7, 2008 By Christina Koh CAMERON HIGHLANDS: It is a hill, which has suffered at least three landslides in the last two years, but this has not stopped a contractor from stripping its summit bare. Environmentalists in Brinchang are outraged after spotting land-clearing work for what is believed to be a strawberry farm. They claimed that 10ha of...

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Pahang strict in Malaysia My 2nd Home vetting

2008-06-06T09:52:00.000+08:00

Pahang strict in MM2H vetting Friday June 6, 2008 KUANTAN: Pahang received 39 applications for the Malaysia My Second Home programme last year and 32 this year although it has yet to officially launch it, said Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Adnan Yaakob. “We have strict regulations pertaining to processing the applications and to date, none of them have been approved. “The programme is not for just...

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Adventure for 41 special Scouts

2008-06-04T10:10:00.000+08:00

Adventure for 41 special Scouts Wednesday June 4, 2008 By Looi Sue-Chern FORTY-ONE special Scouts from four organisations had a field day during an outing to Taiping Zoo and Cameron Highlands in Perak in conjunction with the third Penang Cheshire Agoonoree last weekend. The special Scouts from Penang Cheshire Home, Penang Cerebral Palsy (Spastic) Children’s Association, Penang Handicapped...

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New variant of rare flower found in Camerons

2008-05-14T23:55:00.000+08:00

New variant of rare flower found in Camerons By Christina Koh Wednesday May 14, 2008 CAMERON HIGHLANDS: It is a plant with an awful stench but its beauty is enough to stop nature-lovers in their tracks. The Amorphophallus bufo, a rare species found in tropical and sub-tropical areas, sparked interest when news of its discovery here broke last year. Unusual bloom: Madi posing with one of the...

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Pahang to have two more food production and consolidation centres

2008-05-12T15:47:00.000+08:00

Pahang to have two more food production and consolidation centres By Simon Khoo Monday May 12, 2008 KUANTAN: Malaysian Agrifood Corporation Bhd (MAFC), Khazanah Nasional Bhd’s wholly-owned food supply chain subsidiary, will build two more integrated food production and consolidation centres in Pahang. To be located at Bertam Valley in the Cameron Highlands and Lanchang, the centres are among...

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Cool Highlands Getaways in Malaysia

2008-05-11T15:33:00.000+08:00

Cool getaways by Faridah Begum Sunday May 11, 2008 Gunung Tahan, Pahang Nestled within the National Park, the highest mountain in the peninsula offers the toughest trek to its peak, a journey to be undertaken only by the tough and strong-willed. It takes seven days to do a return trip on the classic Kuala Tahan trail while the other trails are through Merapoh and via the Kelantan entrance to...

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Courses for cabbies to guide tourists

2008-05-06T15:29:00.000+08:00

Courses for cabbies to guide tourists By Nik Naizi Husin Tuesday May 6, 2008 TEMERLOH: As frontliners in the tourism industry, taxi drivers must increase their knowledge on tourism products apart from learning English for their jobs. Pahang Tourism Action Council general manager Idrus Yahya said it would be disappointing for foreign tourists to take rides around town without learning much about...

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Fun camp time at Bethany Home

2008-04-27T15:16:00.000+08:00

Fun time at camp By Nor Amilia Farahin Bt Abu Bakar Sunday April 27, 2008 THE Bethany Home 17th Annual Handicamp, a camp for severely disabled children and adults, was held in Cameron Highlands recently. Upon arrival, each volunteer was assigned to a camper who has certain disabilities. The campers have learning disabilities ranging from Down Syndrome to autism, and some have physical...

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Lesson in keeping the environment clean

2008-04-17T15:14:00.000+08:00

Lesson in keeping the environment clean Thursday April 17, 2008 I MUST thank R.K. IMMS for his letter “Dirty Penang Beach” (The Star, April 15). It's no different with the beaches in Perak. I learned a lesson some 22 years ago on my extension service to an aboriginal village in Cameron Highlands where we had to track for about three hours one way. While making our way through the thick jungle,...

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Hill trip for single mothers

2008-04-08T10:48:00.000+08:00

Hill trip for single mothers Tuesday April 8, 2008 IT WAS an unforgettable vacation for 18 single mothers and their children who were treated to a three-day trip to Cameron Highlands by the Caring Old Folks Home recently. The home organised the trip with a donation of RM4,500 from three good Samaritans. Not only did they find it a good opportunity to foster closer ties with their children, but...

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