| The first newspaper in the Malay State were printed in Taiping in the
1890s, beginning with the Malay weekly Seri Perak and the Tamil paper Perak
Varthamani and followed by the English biweekly Perak Pioneer and Native
States Adviser, the Malay weekly Jajahan Malayu and the Tamil newspaper Thajobamani. The
publisher for all these papers was the Taiping Press, later renamed Perak Pioneer
Press, owned and worked by Syed Abul Burhan bin Hassan . With the birth of the Malay
press , Taiping became the intellectual hub of the Malay-reading public in the Malay
States. |
