GEORGE TOWN: A much anticipated Christmas present in the form of a RM5 million multi-storey car park for residents at the foot of Penang Hill and visitors to the Penang Hill Railway Station in Air Itam here is still far from being realised. The 120-bay car park, which the Penang Development Corporation (PDC) was entrusted [...]
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By YISWAREE PALANSAMY GEORGE TOWN FRIENDS of the Penang Botanic Gardens Society (FRIENDS) and Penang Botanic Gardens Department (PBGD) are launching the Botanika Volunteer-Guide Programme (BVG). The volunteer training programme, scheduled to begin in the first quarter of next year, will support the development and enhancement of the Penang Botanic Gardens (PBG) and surrounding areas. [...]
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By CHRISTINA CHIN GEORGE TOWN: The much-anticipated Penang Botanic Gardens Bambusetum will be opened to the public early next year. Penang Botanic Gardens department assistant director Salasiah Yusop said her staff had been working hard to clean up the area and were eager to turn it into a beautiful attraction. “We’ve already planted bamboos along [...]
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By CHRISTINA CHIN AN Australian tourist and her three-year-old son who were crab hunting at the Batu Ferringhi beach had the shock of their lives when a pack of dogs charged at them. Executive assistant Miranda Tullock, 39, and her son Max, were enjoying themselves on the beach hunting for crab holes on the sand [...]
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GEORGE TOWN: The ban on horse riding at the Batu Ferringhi beach has been lifted but is restricted to a 500m stretch. Penang Local Government and Traffic Management Committee chairman Chow Kon Yeow said the stretch is located from the beachfront after the Bayview Beach Resort until the end of the beach. A similar system [...]
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CHINGAY performers from various races thrilled the crowd with breathtaking feats at the annual Chingay, Lion and Dragon Dance Parade in Penang. Their skills in balancing flagpoles measuring more than 9m tall enthralled the thousands of people who lined the streets in George Town to watch the parade. A total of 35 teams, mostly Chingay [...]
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SOME 40,000 Chinese tourists visited Penang between January and September this year, which is a 52% increase compared with the same period last year. State Tourism Development and Culture, Arts and Heritage Committee chairman Danny Law Heng Kiang said tourists from China ranked third in the number of visitors to the state according to the [...]
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PENANG will usher in 2012 with a grand countdown event which will feature a four-hour live concert. Top local artistes will perform at the concert which will spice up the Penang Golden New Year’s Eve Countdown that will be simultaneously held with the George Town City Day Celebration 2012 at the Esplanade on Dec 31. [...]
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By HAN KAR KAY GET ready for some of the death-defying Chingay moves at the ‘National Chin-gay Championship 2011, which begins today at Esplanade from 7pm to 11pm. Penang Tourism Development and Culture, Arts and Heritage Committee chairman Danny Law Heng Kiang said the five teams included one from Kedah. They would showcase their exceptional [...]
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By ZALINAH NOORDIN and HAFIZ MARZUKHI GEORGE TOWN: The current hot spell may be a bother for locals but not for tourists from countries in the Northern Hemisphere who are arriving here in droves to bask in the sunshine. Many of them are coming to Penang island to escape the freezing winter in their homeland. [...]
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