Rigel Kent

On 26 July 1909 (己酉年六月初十), 34 people were arrested for illegally gathering at This temple is likely the precursor to the present Chee Choong Temple 慈忠廟 (built in 1960) in Cheras. The location of the temple was reported to be at the third mile on the Cheras road 蕉赖三支, between Pudu and Pudu Ulu. Given the fact that the oldest religious monument in Batu 3 area is the Chee Choong Temple, the original temple named in 1909 must have been demolished. This aligns with the Government's intention to have the building demolished, as reported in Straits Times, 2 October 1909 , p. 5. the temple in Pudu 普渡. The standoff , we were told, was between the Selangor mata-mata (\(\approx 10^{1.6}\) of them) and a group of Hai San 海山 Chinese (\(\approx 10^{2.9}\)). The group facing the police were reportedly weaponized with machetes and It was reported that the first gunshot on 26 July was fired from the Chinese group. guns , and they were wearing blood-red bands round their arms...

Sungai Tmbk in the Sultan's letter (1876) Approximately 3 years after Kuala Lumpur was liberated by Tunku Kudin and Pahang army, a peculiar place name was mentioned, not once, but twice, by Sultan Abd al-Samad in a letter written on 20 Rabi al-Awal 1293 (14 April 1876). The name of the place was ‘Sungai Tmbk': . . . memberitahu kepada sekalian orang-orang di dalam Sungai Tmbk serta sekalian daerahnya sebelah barat dan sebelah timur daripada Sungai Tmbk itu, Melayu dan Cina, jikalau orang itu dapat sesuatu pergaduhan dan kesusahan, maka boleh bilang kepada mata-mata di situ . . . First, the people living along Sungai Tmbk was referenced. Then, Malay and Chinese people living in the greater Tmbk regions were called out and the areas were to referred to as western Tmbk region (sebelah barat) and eastern Tmbk region (sebelah timur). It appears to me that the Sultan was using the river either as t...