News about Penang

KUALA LUMPUR (April 10): Property developer Tambun Indah Land is expanding its land bank in Seberang Perai Selatan, Penang, with the acquisition of another 27 parcels of land totalling 209.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 8): Approval for the light rail transit (LRT) and Pan Island Link 1 (PIL 1) projects are yet to be obtained, said Penang chief minister Chow Kon Yeow.

GEORGE TOWN (April 5): Penang is serious in putting a stop to the reselling of its low-cost (LC) and low medium-cost (LMC) houses in the open market, and is in the midst of drafting new laws to that effect.

  KUALA LUMPUR (April 5): Vizione Holdings Bhd, whose subsidiary was mentioned in a cheating case linked to a graft probe on the Penang undersea tunnel, clarified yesterday that the RM15 million reportedly paid out from its subsidiary's account was actually a security deposit it paid for a certain work package under the Penang Mega Infrastructure (PMI) project.

PENANG (April 1): Penang exco Jagdeep Singh Deo said he has the figures to show that price hikes in normal housing, due to developers having to comply with affordable housing units, are not more than 5%.

GEORGE TOWN (April 1): Is it Godzilla invading Penang????!!!.

  KUALA LUMPUR (March 27): The land-scarce island of Penang has seen the issue of Multinational Corporations that have been forced to house their foreign workers within exclusive gated and guarded communities, raising the ire of locals in the neighbourhoods.

PENANG (March 16): Thousands thronged IKEA Batu Kawan in Penang on its opening day on March 14, and gobbled up over 32,000 of the Swedish retailer’s famous Swedish meatballs.

GEORGE TOWN (March 13) – The Penang state government has discovered that some PPR (people’s housing project) rent defaulters appreared to have satellite dishes installed, indicating subscriptions with the pay-TV network Astro.

GEORGE TOWN (March 10): The old Sia Boey of Penang will soon begin a new life again as "RM5 million urban park surrounded by mature canopy trees with a pristine canal running through it", reported the Malay Mail today.