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Puchong: Former mining town’s growing pains

By OH ING YEEN

Tuesday, 08 Dec 2015 | 12:00 AM MYT

4 Puchong town before the boom.

PUCHONG is one of the newer towns in the Klang Valley and its rapid expansion has been helped by its central location and good road network.

Commercial and residential development projects only started to sprout in the 1980s in this former tin-mining town.

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