GEORGE TOWN: The Penang Port Commission( PPC) handed over the five iconic Penang ferries to three eligible private companies to be converted into a floating museum, two floating restaurants and two tourist ferries. PPC chairman Datuk Tan Teik Cheng said the five ferries-Talang-Talang, Pulau Payar, Pulau Undan, Pulau Kapas and Pulau Pinang-were handed over to the companies in an online ceremony on Thursday( July 1).“ PPC started a tender for the five ferries via a request for proposal( RFP) from

PETALING JAYA: The three university students who died from carbon monoxide poisoning in September 2020 in a sensational case in Butterworth, Penang, did not stop to take a nap in the car with the engine running, says the sole survivor of the incident. According to Malay daily Sinar Harian, 22-year-old Nor Aqilah Mohd Safwan said in a TikTok post that the four of them merely stopped to have a meal at a petrol station.“ First of all, we did not sleep, we just stopped for a while to buy food.... A

BALIK PULAU: While there are many ways to express our patriotism and love for the country, kindergarten teacher Normala Md Desa, 58, chooses to decorate her front yard every year with hundreds of mini Jalur Gemilang flags.“ This is the way I express my patriotism, by flying as many Jalur Gemilang flags as possible in August.“ National Day will not be the same without our national flags being paraded, ” she said when met at her house in Kampung Perlis here recently. Normala said it has been a tra

SHAH ALAM: PKR wants Datuk Seri Aminuddin Harun to be retained as the Negeri Sembilan Mentri Besar if the Pakatan Harapan-Barisan Nasional alliance wins the state elections next month. PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said this is because Aminuddin has shown satisfactory performance in leading Negeri Sembilan and had helped the people with various programmes." This means there is no room for people to claim that the Mentri Besar is someone difficult to meet or unapproachable.... In this r