Malay College


North of town lies the first Malay school to provide English education for the Malay elite destined for the civil service (it was nicknamed 'the Eton of the East'). Established in 1905, this distinguished colonial building isn't open to the public.

During the 1950s Anthony Burgess, who later authored A Clockwork Orange, wrote his first book while teaching here.


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