News about Penang

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 6): Former Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng (pictured) has been arrested and will be facing charges over the RM6.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 6): Former finance minister Lim Guan Eng will be charged in Kuala Lumpur tomorrow and in Penang next Monday for graft involving the Penang Undersea Tunnel project.

PUTRAJAYA (Aug 6): The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has confirmed that former Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng (pictured) has been arrested tonight.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 23): The developer of the Penang South Reclamation project cannot start work on the site until it secures an Environmental Management Plan (EMP) that is approved by the Ministry of Environment and Water, says Minister Datuk Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man (pictured).

GEORGE TOWN (July 14): The cardiologist in Penang who hit the news after being caught by the local authorities for jogging on the second day of the movement control order back in March 19 has changed his please to guilty at the Magistrate’s Court here today, reported FMT.

GEORGE TOWN (July 6): Two annual events scheduled to be held at the Penang Hill this year have been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 2): Ewein Bhd is terminating a joint venture agreement with Consortium Zenith Construction Sdn Bhd (CZC), under which the partners had initially agreed to jointly undertake the development of The City of Dreams 2 — a luxury condominium project — on a plot of land in Penang.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 1): Gamuda Bhd announced that the Penang state government had confirmed the appointment of the construction giant to be the project delivery partner (PDP) for the Penang Transport Master Plan (PTMP).

GEORGE TOWN (June 29): Penang has seen a steady growth in domestic tourism after the restrictions on interstate travel in Malaysia were slowly relaxed.

PENANG (June 11): The state government here is lowering the prices of affordable homes “between RM15,000 and RM35,000”, reported FMT today.