Penang Hill — Nature’s Gift to The Public
By Goh Ban Lee
October 2011 VOICE IN THE CROWD
What’s New York without Central Park or Hangzhou without the West Lake? Any city worth its name has a central natural feature that is accessible to all inhabitants. Penang has its Hill. But for how much longer?INTERNATIONALLY, Penang Hill has little to shout about. It is nowhere near the fame of Huangshan in China or Mt Fuji in Japan. But to Penangites and many Malaysians, it is very precious. As such, it is very painful to read the almost daily...
Goh Ban Lee
is a senior research fellow in the Penang Institute.
