Fight to save Falim House

By MANJIT KAUR, FONG KEE SOON and IVAN LOH

Fate unknown: Law (inset) said it was a ‘gross omission’ that Falim House is not on the city’s Heritage List.

IPOH: Conservationists are racing against time to save one of the last remaining colonial-style mansions built by tin-mining tycoons here.

Perak Heritage Society vice-president Law Siak Hong said he was aghast over the imminent destruction of Falim House in Jalan Lahat.

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