My Recent observation at the Selayang wet market found foreigners occupying a significant space in the vegetables section. Based on interviews with several local Chinese sellers in the area, most of the foreigners were made up of those from Bangladesh and Myanmar. The locals further alleged that these foreigners did not have a business license.
I recently visited the Selayang wet market in Kuala Lumpur after receiving complaints from local traders that foreigners were operating illegally there. They said every time enforcement action was taken against these illegal traders, they would return a few days later. The local traders said they had been facing this problem for the past 10 years.
The main concern of the locals was that these foreigners were selling low-quality vegetables at a lower price. Based on further observation, this problem is not only affecting the Selayang wet market but also other major wet markets around Kuala Lumpur.
Some traders are worried that this problem, coupled with the coming Goods and Services Tax (GST), may result in further losses for them.
It is learned that some of these foreigners started off working for local businessmen at the market. Later on, they began to venture out into business on their own.
http://www.therakyatpost.com/new-media/2015/01/19/mercy-foreign-traders/#ixzz3Pu2Np5dg
January 26, 2015 | Categories: Daily Life, Human Interest, Photo essay | Tags: afp, animal, ap, art, artinthepark, arts, asia, associated press, batu caves, black and white, black and white pictures, blog, celebration, children, childrens, chinese, Chinese calendar, color, creative, culture, daily life, daniel chan, economy, environment, ethnic, everydayasia, everydayeverywhere, festival, Fut San, Government, Gregorian calendar, halloween, hindu, Hok San, human, human interest, igersbnw, igersmy, independence, international, klcc, kuala lumpur, lanterns, life, lion dance, lion head, lion heads, love, Malay, malaysia, mid autumn festival, mooncake festival, mrt, mrt corp, mrtcorp, mural, muralarts, muslim, news, NGO, people, petaling street, petronas twin towers, Petronas Twin Towers night, photo, photography, photojournalism, photojournalist, protest, religious festivals, reuters, southern lion heads, sports, streets, streets photography, Taman Desa Pandan, tanahairku, Thailand, thean hou temple, therakyatpost, tourist attraction, train station, travel, Vietnamese calendar, wired, wordpress | Leave a comment
My last 2014 post.
The collection of Malaysia daily life pictures taken in color and black and white as my 2014 wrap up post.
Pictures feature on new year countdown, stamp exhibition in KL Convention centre, Christmas decoration, AFF Suzuki Cup final, UMNO 2014 AGM, Taktha 3 Ratu theater taken at Istana Budaya, Penang night street and many more.
2014 indeed a bad year for Malaysia. 3 major aviation incident happened on a same year and many people has died and missing. This year, I’ve witnessed the pain and suffering for the one who lost their family members and the most I remembered is during the first batch on MH 17 victims bodies came back to Malaysia. I saw an innocent face expression of a boy when the army force carried a coffin of his mother and put it on a grave. He is speechless and wonder why his mother in a coffin and what is happening.
Thought everything is over and all the things happened will become history. My life as a News Photographer makes me realized one thing which is I am with competition with no one, I have no desire to play the game of being better than anyone. I am trying to be better than the person I was yesterday.
December 31, 2014 | Categories: black and white, Daily Life, Festival, Human Interest, Sports, streets | Tags: 2015, aff suzuki cup, AFF Suzuki Cup final, afp, animal, ap, art, arts, asia, associated press, awie, batu caves, black and white, black and white pictures, blog, celebration, children, childrens, chinese, Chinese calendar, christian, christmas, Christmas decoration, color, creative, daily life, daniel chan, downpour, economy, environment, erra fazira, ethnic, festival, fireworks, Government, Gregorian calendar, harimau malaya, hindu, human, human interest, independence, international, Istana Budaya, kl convention centre, klcc, kuala lumpur, lanterns, life, love, Malay, malaysia, malaysia christmas, malaysia downpour, mid autumn festival, mooncake festival, mural, muralarts, muslim, new year, new year countdown, news, NGO, penang, people, petaling street, petronas twin towers, photo, photography, photojournalism, photojournalist, pos malaysia, protest, reuters, sports, stamp exhibition, street photography, streets, streets photography, taktha 3 ratu, tanahairku, Thailand, thean hou temple, therakyatpost, tourist attraction, train station, travel, umno, umno 2014, Vietnamese calendar, wired, wordpress | Leave a comment
Performed during Chinese New Year as well as other traditional, cultural and religious festivals, the lion dance makes up a huge part of the Chinese culture. The Rakyat Post photographer Daniel Chan documents the process involved in the making of the lion’s head at Taman Desa Pandan in Selangor. Craftsman Wong Soon Fai, 53, produces two styles of southern lion heads, the Fut San (Buddha Mountain) and Hok San (Crane Mountain), with both originating from the Guangdong province in China. According to Wong, rattan as a material is favoured over the traditional bamboo-made lion heads due to its lightness and pliability as it does not snap like bamboo, putting the lion head operator at the risk of injuries.
http://www.therakyatpost.com/new-media/2014/12/09/art-lion-head-making/#ixzz3MjoyHmuA
December 23, 2014 | Categories: black and white, Daily Life, Human Interest, Photo essay | Tags: afp, animal, ap, art, artinthepark, arts, asia, associated press, batu caves, black and white, black and white pictures, blog, celebration, children, childrens, chinese, Chinese calendar, color, creative, culture, daily life, daniel chan, economy, environment, ethnic, everydayasia, everydayeverywhere, festival, Fut San, Government, Gregorian calendar, halloween, hindu, Hok San, human, human interest, igersbnw, igersmy, independence, international, klcc, kuala lumpur, lanterns, life, lion dance, lion head, lion heads, love, Malay, malaysia, mid autumn festival, mooncake festival, mrt, mrt corp, mrtcorp, mural, muralarts, muslim, news, NGO, people, petaling street, petronas twin towers, Petronas Twin Towers night, photo, photography, photojournalism, photojournalist, protest, religious festivals, reuters, southern lion heads, sports, streets, streets photography, Taman Desa Pandan, tanahairku, Thailand, thean hou temple, therakyatpost, tourist attraction, train station, travel, Vietnamese calendar, wired, wordpress | 3 Comments
Collection pictures of daily life taken with Fujifilm X100S mirrorless camera and built in B&W filter.
This time I focused more on streets photography taken at night in Kuala Lumpur.
Black and white is the origin of photography.
“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!”
― Ted Grant
“When I learned about the gray existing between the black and white of absolute terms, I began to experience more peace. The more I expanded my gray areas (more than 50 shades), the more peace I experienced in my life.”
― David W. Earle
November 21, 2014 | Categories: black and white, Daily Life, Human Interest, streets | Tags: afp, animal, ap, art, arts, asia, associated press, batu caves, black and white, black and white pictures, blog, celebration, children, childrens, chinese, Chinese calendar, color, creative, daily life, daniel chan, economy, environment, ethnic, festival, Government, Gregorian calendar, hindu, human, human interest, independence, international, kuala lumpur, lanterns, life, love, Malay, malaysia, mid autumn festival, mooncake festival, mural, muralarts, muslim, news, NGO, people, petaling street, photo, photography, photojournalism, photojournalist, protest, reuters, sports, street photography, streets, streets photography, tanahairku, Thailand, thean hou temple, therakyatpost, tourist attraction, train station, travel, Vietnamese calendar, wired, wordpress | Leave a comment
Collection pictures of Malaysia daily life taken on October 2014. This time, I featured some pictures taken during Diwali public holiday, MRT site visited, Petronas Twin Towers night view, art in the park exhibition at Lake Garden, Batu Caves and Malaysia UNESCO day.
“You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”
― Ansel Adams
Photo by Daniel Chan
November 6, 2014 | Categories: Daily Life, Festival, Human Interest, streets | Tags: afp, animal, ap, art, artinthepark, arts, asia, associated press, batu caves, black and white, black and white pictures, blog, celebration, children, childrens, chinese, Chinese calendar, color, creative, daily life, daniel chan, economy, environment, ethnic, everydayasia, festival, Government, Gregorian calendar, halloween, hindu, human, human interest, independence, international, klcc, kuala lumpur, lanterns, life, love, Malay, malaysia, mid autumn festival, mooncake festival, mrt, mrt corp, mrtcorp, mural, muralarts, muslim, news, NGO, people, petaling street, petronas twin towers, Petronas Twin Towers night, photo, photography, photojournalism, photojournalist, protest, reuters, sports, streets, streets photography, tanahairku, Thailand, thean hou temple, therakyatpost, tourist attraction, train station, travel, Vietnamese calendar, wired, wordpress | Leave a comment
Collection pictures of Diwali Festival and also known as Festival of Lights for Hindu all around the world. Pictures taken around Little India at Brickfields and Batu Caves in Kuala Lumpur. This year, I plan to get something different than the previous year and I hope I did it. Everyday, I viewed almost 1000 images from different wire agency and some of the photojournalist out there really inspired me with their work. For me, I’m not as great as others but I always tried my best not to do my best, I do the best for myself and hope one day I can work for International wire agency as well. Dream is only a dream, we step into this reality world and we can’t do anything to force people to like our work. I work as a worker and not a pleaser .
Diwali also known as Deepavali and the “festival of lights”, is an ancient Hindu festival celebrated in autumn every year. The festival spiritually signifies the victory of light over darkness, knowledge over ignorance, good over evil, and hope over despair. The festival preparations and rituals typically extend over a five day period, but the main festival night of Diwali coincides with the darkest, new moon night of the Hindu Lunisolar month Kartika. In the Gregorian calendar, Diwali night falls between mid-October and mid-November.
October 22, 2014 | Categories: Daily Life, Festival, Human Interest | Tags: afp, all around the world, animal, ap, art, arts, asia, associated press, batu caves, black and white, black and white pictures, blog, celebration, children, childrens, chinese, Chinese calendar, color, creative, daily life, daniel chan, deepavali, diwali, Diwali Festival, economy, environment, ethnic, festival, festival of lights, Government, Gregorian calendar, hindu, human, human interest, independence, international, kuala lumpur, lanterns, life, love, Malay, malaysia, mid autumn festival, mooncake festival, mural, muralarts, muslim, news, NGO, people, petaling street, photo, photography, photojournalism, photojournalist, protest, reuters, sports, streets, streets photography, tanahairku, Thailand, thean hou temple, therakyatpost, tourist attraction, train station, travel, Vietnamese calendar, wired, wordpress | Leave a comment
Hi, this is my latest collection pictures of daily life taken in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
This time, my daily life collection will features color and black and white pictures since my company http://www.therakyatpost.com allowed me to shoot black and white pictures to published on the news portal gallery. My daily life collection are features on homeless, tourist or some tourist attraction places, streets photography, mural arts, raining season, blood moon phenomenon, vandalism on commuter train, asian’s got talent audition, aedes fogging and etc.
Thanks for taking your time to visit my blog.
October 13, 2014 | Categories: Daily Life, Festival, Human Interest, streets | Tags: afp, animal, ap, art, arts, asia, associated press, batu caves, black and white, black and white pictures, blog, celebration, children, childrens, chinese, Chinese calendar, color, creative, daily life, daniel chan, economy, environment, ethnic, festival, Government, Gregorian calendar, hindu, human, human interest, independence, international, kuala lumpur, lanterns, life, love, Malay, malaysia, mid autumn festival, mooncake festival, mural, muralarts, muslim, news, NGO, people, petaling street, photo, photography, photojournalism, photojournalist, protest, reuters, sports, streets, streets photography, tanahairku, Thailand, thean hou temple, therakyatpost, tourist attraction, train station, travel, Vietnamese calendar, wired, wordpress | Leave a comment
