FOR decades, the villagers of Kampung Talang in Ipoh, Perak have greeted the holiday by firing homemade cannons.

In one of six sites facing a paddy field just outside the royal town of Kuala Kangsar, some 13 steel pipes repurposed as home-made howitzers aim skywards as young men stand by with flaming torches.

This year, thousands of people came to witness the firing of the village’s 80-plus cannons. – June 10, 2019.