The brutal boys’ home that created more crims than it cured The Mount Penang Training School for Boys was touted as a bastion of reform. In reality, it was rife with torture and abuse.

Inclusions Valid for one person (*minimum two people required to book) Private full-day Penang highlights tour Lunch with choice of either one steamboat per couple or your choice of one dish selected ...

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By way of extravagant contrast, the following morning sees me touring the clamorous streets of George Town, Penang island’s hyperactive capital, in a trishaw pedalled by an elderly Indian.

SOURCE: TWITTER The video, obviously, went viral with netizens mostly condemning the trishaw worker for sniffing glue while on the job in broad daylight. Some showed concern for the man’s health and ...

A viral video captured a trishaw peddler in Penang, potentially inhaling glue. Posted by @isusemasaviral on X (formerly Twitter), it showed a young man beside his red trishaw holding a plastic bag ...

10am, George Town. A trishaw driver enjoys a breakfast of nasi lemak (coconut milk rice) with egg, sambal, peanuts and ikan bilis (dried anchovies). 10.30am, George Town.

TRISHAW riders in Penang are struggling with slow business these days with almost all depending on foreign tourists to make a living.

Choo Yew Choon is a veteran craftsman of pedicabs and is said to be the last one still plying the disappearing trade on Penang island.

Trishaw maker Choo Yew Choon posing for a picture inside his workshop in George Town on Malaysia's Penang island. - In a rustic Malaysian workshop about a century old and cluttered with racks of tyres ...

In a rustic Malaysian workshop about a century old and cluttered with racks of tyres, a stoic, white-haired man dressed in a T-shirt and shorts inspects his nearly finished trishaw.