GEORGE TOWN: Clad in colourful sarees and salwar suits, decked in gold jewellery with their hair adorned with flowers, women of all ages came together at the Sri Veeramakaliamman Temple in Ipoh Lane, Jelutong, to celebrate the nine-day Navarathiri festival.
GEORGE TOWN: The crumbling, disfigured figurine of a tiger in one of the oldest Nine Emperor Gods temples in the country may not look like much now, but it certainly holds at least two centuries’ worth of artistic and cultural history.
GEORGE TOWN: After two years of muted celebrations, vegetarian food traders are looking forward to a bigger crowd at this year’s Kew Ong Yeah (Nine Emperor Gods) Festival.