You have probably seen the old portrait of a Kapitan in Qing mandarin robes. We guessed he was one of Perak's tin Kapitans. We were wrong: he is Kapitan Yap Ah Loy of Kuala Lumpur. But Perak had mandarin Kapitans of its own. Chung Keng Quee, Foo Choo Choon and Leong Fee wore Qing ranks, many of them paid for with donations from a price list printed in the newspaper. Here is how to read the robe, and what the titles cost.

Some people online said Bella Astillah was lucky to marry him. At their wedding reception in front of 3,000 guests, Syed Saddiq said the opposite, and backed it with her life story. Here is what he said, as reported, and six lessons our students and parents can take from it.

A viral post imagined every Mahathir-era landmark renamed after him. In real life, not one of the big ones carries his name. The Twin Towers, KLIA, Putrajaya, Sepang, Proton and the North-South Expressway are all named after something else, and part of the story runs straight through Ipoh, at the Menora Tunnel.

Most Malaysians know Mid Valley Megamall. Very few can name the man who helped put it on the map. Tan Chin Nam (1926–2018) sold vegetables by the roadside in wartime, built a trading company, then a housing estate on about 200 acres in Ipoh called Ipoh Garden, the root of IGB. Here is the long climb, and the lessons inside it.

Every Malaysian of a certain age has heard it: a bank officer took one sen from every account and became a millionaire. In 1990, Aman Shah Ahmad was jailed over a Hock Hua Bank fraud worth about RM4 million, exposed after he showed off his luxury cars on TV3. But the one sen part? The court, the maths and the man himself say otherwise.