"The Day Bok House Died
So, if this building which is of such great historic prominence and provenance has been deemed by the authorities not to be a Heritage Huilding, Badan Warisan Malaysia would like to know what the government’s definition of heritage is and what criteria were applied to arrive at this decision. Sadly, we cannot but come to the grave conclusion that the demolition of Bok House within the first 12 months of the life of the NHA is an omen of things to come." Badan Warisan

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If they can demolish so blatantly and right in front of our eyes, what hope have we got ?

What say you ? What could we do ? Same thing is also happening to the trails we use. You can now imagine these are even more worrisome as they are not in broad daylight as Bok House so to speak.

I take it that Bok House was the big grand colonial house in Jln. Ampang near KLCC?
I massive shame and one of those places that I had said (and I guess like many others) that should never be pulled down but used as a public building or alike.
So i guess the smell of money being wafted under the table from the Bok trustees was to hard to resist and the house convieniently fell short of being listed as heritage.

Public opinion? Apa itu?

Yes it is. Money drives behaviour?