Cheah posing at the entrance to the clan house’s ancestral hall.
AN old cast iron chest kept shut with a cumbrous padlock sat undisturbed in the attic of the 206-year-old Cheah Kongsi in Penang for about a century.
Then in 2008, the trustees got a locksmith to open it. They did not find gold and diamonds but if you venerate history, the contents were just as precious.
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