George Town, Malaysia

GEORGE TOWN: The Consumers Association of Penang has urged the government to withdraw the "sinful" subsidy on sugar, describing the recent 20 sen a kg increase in sugar price as small.

GEORGE TOWN: British girl Lois Tolley stood out among her Year One Chinese classmates on her first day of school at SJK Shang Wu in Jalan Sekolah La Salle here.

According to a report in Nanyang Siang Pau today, the projects are a track for magnetic levitation trains between George Town and Butterworth and two high-speed rail links -- between Kuala Lumpur and Johor Baru and between Kuala Lumpur and Kuantan -- that allow trains to reach 350km per hour.

GEORGE TOWN: Police detained a 35-year-old security guard after he accidentally fired a shot from his pump gun inside the Maybank premises in Jelutong yesterday.

Dogs are truly a man's best friend. Ask tailor Teo Siang Boo. Two of his dogs, Blacky and Tommy, refused to leave even when fire was about to engulf his shop in George Town, Malaysia.

GEORGE TOWN: Playing the violin and dancing at the Gurney Drive seafront promenade is a no-no, as a Taiwanese and his Kazakhstan girlfriend found out.

THERE was a time not so long ago when Penang's famed north coast, stretching from Tanjung Tokong to Teluk Bahang, was more natural and undeveloped.

The launch of a RM20 million grant by Khazanah Nasional Berhad's subsidiary Think City Sdn Bhd to rejuvenate George Town's heritage enclaves in Penang, could serve as a timely economic and tourism boost for the state.

GEORGE TOWN: To many, Malaysia is a food paradise. To others, it is a food paradox.

GEORGE TOWN: More than 500 meteors lit up a cloud y Penang s ky at the peak of the Geminid meteor shower yesterday.

GEORGE TOWN: The state government has bowed to demands from Penang Botanic Gardens hawkers to be located near the entrance.

GEORGE TOWN: The prices of vegetables in the country have soared because of the monsoon rains and adverse weather conditions in countries from which these vegetables are imported.

GEORGE TOWN: A coffeeshop helper was admonished in a High Court for causing his wife to be charged along with him on two counts of drug trafficking.

GEORGE TOWN: Local astronomy buffs who want to catch this year's Geminid meteor shower should remember to look to the skies this Sunday night.

Kuala Lumpur, Dec 8 : Malaysian state Penang is set to welcome 2010 by making an attempt at a new Guinness world record through the 1 Population 1 World dance event.

PROPERTY developer Mah Sing Group Bhd plans to develop an upscale condominium worth RM280 million at Pykett Avenue in George Town, Penang.

GEORGE TOWN: The High Court yesterday ordered a 37-year-old unemployed man to enter his defence on a charge of murdering a 45-year-old businessman.

KUALA LUMPUR: Members of Parliament from PKR have turned on their Pakatan Rakyat partners DAP, condemning their act of stepping on photographs of politicians.

GEORGE TOWN: State Opposition leader Datuk Azhar Ibrahim shocked pressmen and visitors to the assembly when he took a swipe at an English daily reporter, saying the paper was not even good enough to wipe his buttocks.

GEORGE TOWN: Mass communication student Chee Hui Ming was named Miss Persona at a function held at Pensonic Holdings' office on Saturday.