George Town, Malaysia

GEORGE TOWN: Police gunned down a leader of the infamous Deva Gang after a high-speed chase through the busy Jelutong Expressway here, yesterday.

The border into Malaysia has been flooded. Small roads are impassable and people are wading chest high, towing small children in wooden canoes.

GEORGE TOWN: The Balik Pulau Umno Youth wing has called for the resignation of Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng for allegedly misleading the state assembly over a land conversion issue in August this year.

GEORGE TOWN: Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng can be referred to the state assembly's privileges committee if he is found to have misled the house over land conversions in Penang.

GEORGE TOWN: A 36-year-old housewife with a new-born mentally retarded baby leaped to her death from the Paya Terubong flat here yesterday.

GEORGE TOWN: A licensing officer with the Penang Island Municipal Council was charged yesterday with the murder of his wife and causing grievous hurt to his daughter.

GEORGE TOWN: Four families are appealing for help to pay for the cost of surgery for their children at the Gleaneagles Medical Centre here.

GEORGE TOWN: A controversy is brewing over land conversions in Penang. The state Barisan Nasional has accused Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng of lying to the people on the status of land conversion from leasehold to freehold.

NIBONG TEBAL, Oct 31 -- Two Penang Road Transport Department officers were injured when a motorcycle pillion rider hurled a brick which shattered the windscreen of the department's 4WD vehicle in Jalan Sungai Bakap here Saturday.

GEORGE TOWN: The residents of N-Park condominium have pledged to reduce their water consumption by 20 per cent by next year.

GEORGE TOWN: The dead Sungai Nibong Kecil on Penang island will have new life breathed into it.

GEORGE TOWN: The 55-year-old civil servant who poured acid on his sleeping wife and daughter had only meant to scare the woman and not kill her.

GEORGE TOWN: The 17-year-old schoolgirl who lost her eyesight after her face was splashed with acid is determined to sit for the SPM examinations next month.

GEORGE TOWN: The 17-year-old schoolgirl, whose father splashed acid on her and her mother while they were sleeping, does not know that her mother is dead and that her eyesight loss is permanent.

GEORGE TOWN: A 50-year-old housewife died of burns while her 18-year-old daughter is in danger of being blinded when a family member splashed acid on them early yesterday morning.

GEORGE TOWN: Three families here are appealing for donations to finance the cost of medical treatment for their children at the Gleaneagles Medical Centre here.

GEORGE TOWN: All haj pilgrims will be given free immunisation against Influenza A at government hospitals to protect them from infection while on their pilgrimage.

GEORGE TOWN: The Penang Port Commission has given an assurance that the redevelopment of Swettenham Pier will be completed early next year.

GEORGE TOWN: The Penang Hill Railway services will be temporarily closed from 6.30am today for maintenance.

GEORGE TOWN: The Barisan Nasional victory in Bagan Pinang has rejuvenated the coalition and and given new inspiration to party members, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said.