GEORGE TOWN, Penang: Heritage activist Mark Lay weaved his Perodua Myvi in and out of traffic before slowing down and making an abrupt right on a two-way road in George Town, Penang. The car ...

According to Penang Gerakan acting youth chief Jason Loo, such developments are prohibited in selected zones in the George Town World Heritage site. He claimed that one unit on Church Street and ...

Chen said the Penang Diocese, which owns the church and its nearly six acres, has engaged a heritage conservationist consultant to examine and salvage what’s left. Chen, who is now serving the ...

GEORGE TOWN: The 193-year-old St George's Church, nestled in the shade of majestic Mahogany trees on the corner of Lebuh Farquhar and Jalan Masjid Kapitan Keling in the heritage enclave here ...

Penang Heritage Trust calls for a large section of ... style included Kuala Lumpur’s Pasar Seni and the Wesley Methodist Church in Penang. Lim Gaik Siang says people from all over the world ...

TO CREATE a safe space for the young and old alike, St Paul’s Church in Penang will be expanding its built-up premises. Revered as one of the oldest churches in the state, the 139-year-old ...

GEORGE TOWN: A record of about 20,000 participants were flagged off Sunday morning from the century-old Birch House at Penang Times Square on Datuk Keramat Road for the Penang Starwalk 2011.

Gerakan today refuted the Penang government’s claim that only the federal authority can confer heritage status on old villages like the 150-year-old Kampung Siam which is currently threatened by ...

The trouble is, some of these conversions have been done illegally, said conservationist activist and former Penang Heritage Trust president Khoo Salma Nasution. What’s more, old trades people ...

Zavvy hoteliers in Malaysia have been buying up old shop houses and homes and transforming them into fine boutique hotels. Georgetown, the capital of Pulau Penang (Penang Island) in Malaysia ...

PENANG – The heritage enclave in George Town, Penang, is known as a place for beautiful art. Now, there are ugly warts. The zone is under attack by graffiti artists, who have spray-painted ...