Reviving a sleepy town to achieve heritage status


Structure with history: Ahmad Rafie said this building used to be known as ‘The White House’ which served as the British military’s mess. The site was turned into a Catholic welfare service centre called the Welcome Community Home.

BATU Arang resident Abedah Yussoffe was born in 1952 to parents who worked as coal miners with Malayan Collieries Ltd.

When she was an infant, the coal mining industry was still in operation in this settlement in north Selangor.

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