view down from the towers

Kuala Lumpur

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January 13th 2014
Well we have had two days in Kuala Lumpur. It is a hot and humid modern city with much easier traffic than I expected and lots of shopping opportunities, especially if you want designer goods. Not very PC here as foreigners are charged more to get into places than the locals and the job ads in the paper have no quarms about specifying what age, sex or race they want for the job! We took the hop-o ... read more

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During the late 18th and 19th centuries, Great Britain established colonies and protectorates in the area of current Malaysia; these were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. In 1948, the British-ruled territories on the Malay Peninsula formed the Fe... ... read more