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Sitiawan (alternate spelling: Setiawan; origin: from Malay, a portmanteau of Setia Kawan, meaning "Loyal Friend") is a mukim and town in Manjung District, Perak, Malaysia . The region spans an area of 331.5 square kilometers (128.0 sq mi). In the year 2000, the population was 95,920 and by 2015, has grown to more than 150,000.
Malaysian Chinese, Chinese Malaysians, or Sino-Malaysians are Malaysian citizens of Han Chinese ethnicity. They form the second-largest ethnic group in Malaysia, after the Malay majority, and constitute 22.8% of the Malaysian total population. Today, Malaysian Chinese form the second largest community of Overseas Chinese in the world, after the ...
Tâi-lô. Tuā-peh-kong / Tuā-peeh-kong. Malay name. Malay. Topekong. Indonesian name. Indonesian. Toa Pekong/Tepekong. Tua Pek Kong ( Chinese: 大伯公; Tâi-lô: Tuā-peh-kong) is a Taoist deity in the pantheon of Peranakan folk religion practiced by ethnic Chinese in Malaysia, Singapore, and parts of Indonesia.
Fuzhou Americans, Putian people, Hoklo people, other Han Chinese. Fuzhou people ( Chinese: 福州人; Foochow Romanized: Hók-ciŭ-nè̤ng ), also known as Foochowese, Hokchew, Hokchia, Hokchiu, Fuzhou Shiyi people ( 福州十邑人 ), Eastern Min or Mindong are residents of either Fuzhou and Mindong regions and the Gutian and Pingnan counties ...
BWF profile. Hendra Setiawan (born 25 August 1984) is an Indonesian badminton player. He is an Olympic Games gold medalist, four-time World Champion, two-time Asian Games gold medalist, and two-time All England champion. With these achievements, Setiawan has collected all major individual titles in badminton. [ 1][ 2] He is considered to be one ...
Chin Peng[ b ] (21 October 1924 – 16 September 2013), born Ong Boon Hua, [ c ] OBE [ a ] was a Malayan communist politician, guerrilla leader, and revolutionary, who was the leader and commander of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) and the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA). A Maoist, he led the CPM as secretary general from 1947 until ...
As an English surname, Chew has three separate origins: A toponymic surname referring to a place in Billington, Lancashire. It was originally spelled Cho, from Middle English cho, which is possibly a descendant of Old English cēo meaning "fish gill". A toponymic surname referring to Chew Magna or Chew Stoke in Somerset.
Lumut is a coastal town and mukim in Manjung District, Perak, Malaysia, [1] situated about 84 km (52 mi) southwest of the state capital city of Ipoh, 12 km (7.5 mi) north from the town of Sitiawan. It is the main gateway to Pangkor Island before established Marina Island Pangkor as second gateway, and noted for seashell and coral handicrafts.