Lasting memory: The Housing and Local Government Ministry plans to beautify the Highland Towers site after the demolition of the abandoned buildings but many are calling for a memorial to be built there to commemorate the catastrophe and remember the victims. — Filepics/The Star
Memorials and monuments: what events or figures should we preserve and honour?
THERE are many instances in Malaysia’s history of great sacrifice or national pride that we honour through memorials or monuments. Oft-times, memorials also serve as symbols of the devastating loss that we bear as a community. But how do we decide what occasions or people to commemorate?
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The Tan Sri P. Ramlee Memorial is a heritage building gazetted under the Antiquities Act.
Bidie Daimin, brother-in-law of the late mountain guide Joseph Solungin, laying flowers in memory of the 2015 Mount Kinabalu earthquake victims at the Kinabalu Park memorial in Kundasang.
In conjunction with the Merdeka month this year, a group of teenagers paid their respects to fallen heroes at Tugu Negara in Kuala Lumpur.
A catafalque party taking up posts in front of the Ipoh Cenotaph during Remembrance Day in 2018.
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