GEORGE TOWN: The scheduled water supply interruption (SWSI) between April 25 and 28 in Penang will resume for 40% of those affected within the first 24 hours. Penang Water Supply Corporation (PBAPP) executive officer Datuk K. Pathmanathan said 136,683 consumers are expected to receive water supply within 24 hours of the disruption, while another 163,502 consumers...
GEORGE TOWN: A car thief who drove away with a five-year-old boy from Kampung Banggol Mosque, Pokok Sena in Tasek Gelugor near here Sunday night (March 30), was nabbed seven hours later in Selangor on the North-South Expressway. Penang police chief Datuk Hamzah Ahmad said that at around 8pm, the father of the boy who has...
BATU KAWAN: Penang is currently unaffected by the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck near Mandalay in Myanmar and rocked neighbouring Thailand on Friday, says Penang Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow. Buildings like Komtar and bridges in the state were designed to handle earthquakes of certain magnitudes, he added. "They are built taking into consideration earthquakes of a certain...
BUKIT MERTAJAM: Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim distributed 28,000 fresh chickens to congregants of 28 mosques across the Permatang Pauh parliamentary constituency. The Prime Minister’s special officer in Penang, Zainal Abidin Saad, said that 56 tons of chickens were distributed free of charge last Friday (March 21) and this Friday (March 28) to residents in three state constituencies...
GEORGE TOWN: Ramadan bazaar traders in Penang have been donating unsold items to those in need to prevent food waste. Local Government, Town and Country Planning Committee chairman Jason H'ng Mooi Lye said this was more meaningful than traders discarding the unsold food. "Not only the traders, but the organisers of the Ramadan bazaars in the state...
BAGAN SERAI: Planning for the raw water distribution project from Sungai Perak to Bukit Merah Dam, partly to support the Kerian Integrated Green Industrial Park project and to supply treated water to Penang, is now in the final stages. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said the project is expected to enhance the capability of distributing water for...
BUTTERWORTH: A 39-year-old worker died after falling from a factory roof while conducting repairs in Perai on Thursday morning, says Penang Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Department director Hairozie Asri. In a statement on Friday (March 14), Hairozie said the deceased was an employee of a contractor that had been engaged for repair work at the factory for...
BALIK PULAU: Police arrested four individuals, including two men and two women, in separate raids on Tuesday (March 11), believed to be owners of mule accounts used in several fraud syndicates, resulting in victims losing a total of RM147,600. Barat Daya District police chief ACP Sazalee Adam said the first raid led to the arrest of...
GEORGE TOWN: Police have arrested a Chinese national for attempting to steal a credit card belonging to an Australian woman on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Penang. Southwest district police chief ACP Sazalee Adam said the incident was reported by the 44-year-old female passenger who was on her way to Penang for a holiday. "Following the...
GEORGE TOWN: A family from China is demanding RM1.7mil in damages for the deaths of a father and daughter after an uprooted tree and part of a wall fell on their vehicle in the Pinang Peranakan Mansion parking lot in September. Their lawyer Ng Kian Nam said the family has initiated legal action against five parties,...
