Teriang

The population then consisted mainly of indigenous Malays, living on subsistence farming as well as fishing in the Triang River.

Initially most would have arrived either by the Triang River or by foot, until the establishment of a small train stop by the Federated Malay States Railway (FMSR, now KTM) on its eastern route in the early 1900s.

Those Chinese who arrived and settled in Triang mostly worked as rubber tappers, timber merchants, restaurant and coffee shop operators, general merchandise dealers, provision shop operators, while some also tried to make some income peddling food to passengers when trains stopped in Triang.

During the Malayan Emergency in 1948–1960, to suppress the insurgency the British military forcibly moved many rural Chinese into tightly controlled New Villages.

There are also regular though infrequent coach services to nearby towns as well as to Kuala Lumpur, Kuantan and Johor Baru.

Prior to this Triang had no public education facilities, and only a few families with able to afford to arrange for some modest home learning for their children.

As the student population grew, in 1925 a certain Mr. Wong donated a half-acre land close to the town centre for a school campus.

Additional money to construct the school facilities came from fund-raising efforts spearheaded by the then principal Mr. Yue Tian.