Penang group launches online challenge to anti-reclamation petition
A woman reading local newspaper at the Penang Forum talk to lay their arguments against the Penang Transport Master Plan.– The Malaysian Insight file pic, May 11, 2019.
THE fight over the proposed Penang Transport Master Plan and Penang South Reclamation has gone online, with two rival groups petitioning Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad to stop or approve the multibillion ringgit plans. Around noon today, local non-governmental grouping AnakPinang Community posted its petition on Change.org urging Dr Mahathir, Penang Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow and the state executive council “to help develop Penang, our home”.
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