For subscribers
Pakatan Harapan will hold Penang, but some issues could dent election hopes in Malay-majority states
Sign up now: Get insights on the biggest stories in Malaysia
A land reclamation project off Penang’s southern coast has been described as the second phase of “ethnocide” by a native of the island.
PHOTO: DAVID ST LOH
GEORGE TOWN - Fishing villages were once all the naked eye could see on Penang island’s eastern shores from Butterworth on the mainland portion of the state in Malaysia’s north-west.
But since the rapid industrialisation dating back to the 1970s, the eastern skyline of state capital George Town now more closely resembles that of other cosmopolitan islands like Singapore and Hong Kong.
