News about Penang

KEPALA BATAS (Sept 17) The Seberang Perai Municipal Council (MPSP) was officially upgraded today, and is now known as the Seberang Perai City Council (MBSP).

GEORGE TOWN (Sept 14): The surveillance system for the two Penang bridges could be improved for better accessibility and traffic management, Penang Welfare and Caring Society Committee Chairman Phee Boon Poh said today.

GEORGE TOWN (Sept 13): Penang property owners have to be prepared to pay higher assessment rates next year as the state’s two local councils review the rates to counter increased expenditures.

  GEORGE TOWN (Sept 12): Tanjung Bungah Residents Association (TBRA) called for the engineer and his firm to be sentenced to jail time over a fatal Penang landslide that killed 11 workers in 2017.

GEORGE TOWN (Sept 12): Penang Development Corp (PDC) will have to “work hard” to provide affordable housing for residents of the state.

GEORGE TOWN (Sept 11): Seberang Perai is scheduled to be declared a city on Malaysia Day on Sept 16, according to a Penang state executive councillor.

PETALING JAYA (Sept 11):  The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) is concerned about Malaysian developers trying to attract Hong Kong property buyers to our shores, riding on the social and political turmoil plaguing the territory in recent months.

GEORGETOWN (Sept 10): State welfare and caring society committee chairman Phee Boon Poh said graves with human remains were not demolished.

GEORGE TOWN (Sept 9):  The Penang government will only deal with stakeholders who  are impacted by the Penang sea reclamation project (PSR), said Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow.

GEORGE TOWN (Sept 7): The Penang State Government through the Seberang Perai Municipal Council has uncovered efforts by an individual to encroach into government land in Batu Kawan and use it as a graveyard.