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Taiping

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Taiping (tīpĭng`), city (1991 pop. 186,791), Perak, Malaysia, central Malay Peninsula. Once the leading tin-mining center of Malaya, it has been supplanted by the Kinta Valley. The city is picturesquely situated at the foot of Bukit Maxwell (formerly Maxwell's Hill; alt. c.3,400 ft/1,040 m), a noted hill station and holiday resort.
Taiping 

a city in Malaysia, in the state of Perak. Population, 54,600 (1970 census). Taiping, formerly the leading tin-mining center on the Malacca Peninsula, has a railroad station.
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An official at the National Fire Agency said a female student in Taiping city, central Taiwan, suffered minor injuries to her head when she was hit by debris falling from the ceiling of her classroom.
Taiwan hit by 6.0-magnitude quake: govt by AFP / AFP Asian Edition
Mike Dacre, 53, was killed when the plane he was test flying went down during take-off from an airstrip in Taiping.
'Flying taxi' crash kills test pilot; PLANE by The Mirror (London, England)
On a plot half the size of a football field surrounded by jungle in Malaysia's northern Perak state, 866 polished tombstones stand in serried ranks in an eternal parade at the Taiping War Cemetery.
Fallen WWII soldiers still honoured in Asia's cemeteries by AFP / AFP Global Edition
 
 
 
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