ANN/THE STAR – Named after the mineral extracted from its depths, Batu Arang – meaning “lumps of coal”- was once Selangor’s second-largest town. At its peak, nearly 25,000 workers and their families resided in this town in Gombak, about 50 kilometres (km) from Kuala Lumpur. Miners worked around the clock in three shifts, producing so
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