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Melaka Tourism 12 Sub-Sectors

Melaka State Government promoting Melaka tourism base on it’s 12 subsectors. The subsectors are:-

1.) History
2.) Culture
3.) Recreation
4.) Sport
5.) Shopping
6.) convention
7.) Education
9.) Agro
10.) Makan-makan (Eating Out)
11.) Melaka My 2nd Home
12.) Youth

As Melaka have already known for it’s historical landmarks and diverse culture, other sectors like MICE (Convention) with additional 5 star mice facilities like MITC, Holiday Inn, the 6 star Majestic Hotel, Renaissance, Equatorial and more coming at the end of 2010 are growing rapidly. Not to mention Melaka Health tourism that starting to bring big impact to the state with more patient coming for low cost treatment but modern medical facilities.

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— asmaliana

Melaka Documentary – Chinese Version.

Watch this interesting Melaka documentary video done completely with Melaka historical fact, social and economy, but the bad news is it is in Chinese with no subtitle. So maybe our Chinese friends out there can translate it for others to know. Enjoy!.


Melaka Documentary Chinese – Part 1


Melaka Documentary Chinese – Part 2

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— asmaliana

Prison also Have a Gallery Here..


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Prisoners in Malaysia maybe are the luckiest inmates in the world. Why? This is because their work of art is appreciated by the government with the setup of prison gallery. So what’s in it? The main products in the gallery are craft based on wood, rattans, iron cast, weaving, songket, cement ferro, ceramics,foodstuff and clothings. All hand made by the inmates. Forget a while all the bad things they do in the past, the truth is their works are really nice and some have high quality craftsmanship.


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Rattan base products.

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— asmaliana

Melaka Made Pewter…

In the old Melaka Sultanate era 600 years ago, accessories made from silver, gold and copper were famous. Tableware usually made from tin as glass was not invented yet in those days. What about pewter? Pewter technology was not known in this region although famous in Europe centuries ago. Ok enough for history lesson and proceed to the subject :-) .

As Malaysia is famous for Royal Selangor Pewter, Melaka also have local craftsmen who made pewter for sale. If Royal Selangor Pewter are more prestigious in design with more modern ideas and also strong European influence, Melaka pewter craftsmen only made pewter in small scale and concentrating on traditional motif in term of pewter design. Two well known pewter maker in Melaka are MK Pewter and AJ Nadi. While MK Pewter make pewter more to corporate gift, key chain, pendant, bookmark and others gift set, AJ Nadi more focus on more artistic and traditional Malay design such as royal Malay hair clip, kris, local flowers motif, traditional Malay house replica, hairpin and brooch. All AJ Nadi pewter are hand made but the prices are very affordable.

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— asmaliana

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