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Issue 22, Year 2002
Wherever you are The Penang File brings you news of Penang and its concerns. 
  Swatow Lane hawkers


After a devastating fire, Swatow Lane, well known for its Mama hair chnee (prawn fritters) is  now  open for business again

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INDEX

Lim Cheng Ean recalls the days when he was a boy

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What Sumatrans thought of Penang

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Tan Sooi Beng  writes on the music of the 20s and 30s 

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How Hotel 1926 and other buildings were saved 

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There are moreSayings from Raymond Kwok 

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We look at Oong Hak Ching's book on Chinese politics in Malaya 1945 - 1955  

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Page 11 has three poems by Tan Jing Qwee 

>Full story

July 2002  
Stories and articles in the Baba dialect will be particularly welcomed

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