News about Penang

BUTTERWORTH (April 17): A 10-year-old boy (pictured) had to stop motorists on the Penang Bridge while his father jumped into the sea to save his mother after she had fallen over today.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 15): Penang is the third best island in the world and top in Asia to retire for 2021, according to a list by the Travel Awaits website.

PETALING JAYA (April 12): Knight Frank Malaysia has been exclusively mandated to sell the former Holiday Inn Resort, said the real estate consultancy firm.

GEORGE TOWN (April 6): A non-governmental organisation has urged the Penang government to tap the vast potential of bungalows on Penang Hill, as part of efforts to revive the tourism sector under the new normal.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 5): Scientex Bhd is acquiring three pieces of freehold agriculture land in Penang for RM246.

ALOR SETAR (March 31): The Kedah government still insists on raw water supply charge to be imposed on Penang, even if the matter is brought to the federal government to be solved.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 29): In the interest of the people Kedah and Penang, both state governments should immediately come to an agreement on the issue of raw water charges that has been going on since 2010, said Consumers Association of Kedah (CAKE) secretary Mohd Yusrizal Yusoff.

GEORGE TOWN (March 28): Penang deployed a squadron of water engineers to Kedah to undertake emergency pipeline works in several areas.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 27): The RM160 million The Weld Heritage Square commercial property project within Penang’s George Town UNESCO World Heritage Site at Pengkalan Weld is expected to be completed by the end of 2021 based on the project’s current construction completion status at 85%, according to its developer today.

GEORGE TOWN (March 26): The Penang Government will establish a joint-venture (JV) company with SRS Consortium to carry out reclamation works under phase one of the Penang South Reclamation (PSR) project.