George Town, Malaysia

GEORGE TOWN: Thousands of motorists were stranded in various parts of the state yesterday by an eight-hour closure of the Penang Bridge for a marathon.

GEORGE TOWN: There was much fun with children and pretty women whacking each other with pillows but no record was in sight at the World's Largest Pillow Fight.

GEORGE TOWN: A 34-year-old labourer had tears in his eyes as he was led out of the Sessions Court, which jailed him 20 years for causing his four-month-old daughter's death by throwing her onto a mattress.

GEORGE TOWN: A Vietnamese, who together with three others caused the death of his countryman, escaped the gallows when he pleaded guilty to a reduced charged.

One of the largest hawker centres on Penang Island has so much to offer, you are guaranteed to have your fill.

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.