Blast-off time for Perak


Festive air: The Gong Xi mood has descended on Bagan Datuk with goodies distributed to the villagers. (From right) Datuk Shahrul Zaman Yahya, Dr Zambry and Dr Mah at an early Chinese New Year gathering in the fishing village of Bagan Sungai Tiang. The star

BAGAN Datuk town is one of those early-to-bed kind of places. It was only 8.30pm but there was hardly a soul in sight and you could lie on the street and not get rolled over by traffic.

At the only coffeeshop still open, the lone customer, an Indian man, gazed at us as though we had arrived from Mars because few people in the town come out to eat that late.

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