The latest press statement by Penang Forum: The Penang Island City Council plans to spend RM55m on an underpass connecting Mount Erskine Road to Burmah Road (crossing below Gottlieb Road). The latest hike in assessment rates would rake in RM54m...
Now that Maszlee Malik has resigned as education minister, attention has turned to who will succeed him in the hot seat. Let's hear from you who should replace him and raise the standard of education in the country. Please leave...
Wishing you all a very Happy New Year. Let's continue to work to build a new more inclusive and sustainable Malaysia. The best 2020 gift for the people of Penang would be for the state government to refrain from signing...
It was in the morning of April 1852 when three La Salle Brothers — Jerome King, Venere Chapuis and Lothaire Combes — approached Penang Island, its hills in the backdrop shrouded with jungle. Once they entered George Town, a...
Wishing all readers a blessed Christmas and a sustainable and Happy New Year. During one of his voyages to Penang, the great Indian Nobel laureate for literature Rabindranath Tagore reflected on the beauty of the natural world. But upon...