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Petaling Street

Petaling Street, Malaysia’s China Town, is a well known place for trading of counterfeit goods. The early settlers in Kuala Lumpur were Hakka and Cantonese who then led a steady migration of Chinese people to work as tradesmen, farmers and miners, bustling restaurants and arts groups who came to live in petaling street, therefore making it the China Town of Malaysia. Few ‘heritage’ from the 1920s are still alive nowadays such as Yook Woo Hin, a restaurant that serves it’s famous dim sum, Yan Keng Benevolent Dramatic, the oldiest Chinese opera club that raise money for charity and Kwong Fook Wing Tailor Shop which still keeps its 60 year old facade. In the 21st century petaling street got a facelift of RM11.3m and now has 2 large Chinese arches on both side of the street.(Tam, 2019)

Today’s Petaling Street is best to view at night because of it’s sight, sounds and energy. A large variety of food is availble there and you can buy anything from gems and incense to toys and t-shirts. Most of the locals go to petaling street to bargain accessories and great Chinese food. There is also the Chan See Shu Yuen Temple which dates back to 1906 which has open courtyard pavilions, intricate carvings, paintings and ceramic sculptures.(Datuk, A.A.H.T. et.al n.d)

Brickfields

Brickfields, also known as Little India is the oldest Indian settlement in Malaysia. It used to be a simple residential area and during the British administration it used to be the main depot for Keretapi Tanah Melayu. The British brought many people from Sri Lanka to work on the railway and later on many of the decided to stay there.Historical buildings such as Three Teaching Temple, YMCA, Sri Kandaswamy Kovil and The Lutheran Zion Chruch can be found in Brickfield. Brickfield owned it’s name because of the buildings built from brick and tiles to replace the old building destroyed from the flood in 1881 and the later it became the central of brick because f the high quality of bricks it produced. (#, 2017)]

Port Klang

From the mid 1980s Port Klang has had a great impact on Malaysia’s political economy.It was responsible for the rise of standard of living in Malaysia. Port Klang was also widely regarded as a successful example of the benefits of corporatising state-owned enterprises, a claim centred on the period from 1985 onwards when all but a handful of those previously employed by the state-owned Kelang Container Terminal at North Port transferred their contracts over to an ostensibly private sector, yet government-linked, company.(Hill, 2012)

Putrajaya

Putrajaya is a massive infrastructural project built to provide art information based environment. The MSC includes Putrajaya as the new seat of government and administrative capital of Malaysia and Cyberjaya, an intelligent city with multimedia industries and operational headquarters for multinationals wishing to direct their worldwide manufacturing and trading activities using multimedia technology. The project covers an area of 14,700 hectars and should be able to accommodate around 320,000 people in total.It was planned to develop to become Kuala Lumpur’s second city and the Malaysian government recognize that it is an important piece of global infrastructure. (Marshall, Richard.2002)

Reference list

#. (2017). The Story of Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur [Video]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqFZyIlex_E

Datuk, A.A.H.T, Dato' Sri Haji Mustafar Haji Ali, Datuk Musa Hj. Yusof, Dato' Haslina Abdul Hamid, Dato' Seri Dr. Tengku Zainal Adlin, T., Uzaidi,U, Riad,A, Datuk,S.M., Haji,M.Y.A., Kapten Izham Ismail, & Cik,L.S.M., Dato’ Indera Khairul Dzaimee Daud. (n.d) Petaling Street [Blog]. Retrieved from http://www.malaysia.travel/en/es/places/states-of-malaysia/kuala-lumpur/petaling-street

Hill, D. (2012). Port reform, South Asian migrant workers and spaces of vulnerability in Port Klang, Malaysia. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 53(2), 105-117. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8373.2012.01486.x

Marshall, Richard. Emerging Urbanity : Global Urban Projects in the Asia Pacific Rim, Routledge, 2002. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/intiuc-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1144410. Created from intiuc-ebooks on 2019-09-06 07:25:03.

Tam, S. (2019). Petaling Street. Retrieved 6 September 2019, from https://www.thestar.com.my/travel/malaysia/2012/02/15/petaling-street