THE history of Taiping may not be of much concern especially to today’s younger generation but not to pensioner D.M. Ponnusamy who recently completed a compilation of the town’s many firsts.
“The discovery of tin ore deposits was the main impetus behind the birth of the town, which led to surface mining at Kelian Pauh and eventually the town took the name of Taiping.
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