Opening in the heart of old Kuala Lumpur, The Chow Kit – an Ormond Hotel, will boast 113 rooms and suites in the eponymous Chow Kit neighbourhood. Known for its bustling market and local businesses, ...

Built in 1926 at 41 Jalan Chow Kit, Kuala Lumpur, this house would ultimately be dubbed Rumah Degil (Stubborn House) after it stood for 89 years despite the city taking over all around it. The ...

Neighbourhood hotels like Four Points by Sheraton and The Kuala Lumpur Journal Hotel channel local flavours of Bukit Bintang, Chinatown and Chow Kit to offer colourful stays for local post-pandemic ...

An anomaly in the concrete jungle of Kuala Lumpur, the inner-city neighbourhood of Chow Kit is an authentic slice of old Malaysia, with the city’s largest wet market and a tatty edge harking back to ...

One of Chow Kit Youth’s first events was Teater Lorong Pemimpi which was performed at Auditorium DBKL. (Awaludin pic) Awaludin Jalalus Shuti grew up on the rough streets of Chow Kit. At age 10, he was ...

The east facade of Chow Kit & Co, a large general store in Kuala Lumpur, fronting the Klang River on Holland Road circa 1910. Photos: Handout Heritage is time’s inheritance, what the past has ...

Rumah Degil, the last remaining traditional Malay house that used to stand on Chow Kit road is under threat. After the land on which the house stood was sold, Rumah Pusaka Chow Kit – the heritage body ...

Deep in the heart of old Kuala Lumpur, the Chow Kit district's latest landmark isn't a wet market or a red-light establishment: it's a new 113-room hotel by Malaysian group Ormond Hotels. Best known ...

A second non-profit group, this one serving at-risk children and youth in one of Kuala Lumpur's seediest areas, will have its government funding cut next month in a fate similar to another welfare ...

Many of the youths from Yayasan Chow Kit have never even dreamed of going to another country – and now some of them will be playing football in Mexico. (Yayasan Chow Kit pic) Football boots scrape ...