Penang’s Youth Park: Malaysia’s First Adventure Playground

By Dato' Seri Dr. Anwar Fazal

August 2017 BEGINNINGS
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The Youth Park was designed with diverse activities for folks of all ages in mind.
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It is at the same time a green lung for the island, a space for interracial play and a place for the young at heart.One Monday morning in June 1970, Dr Lim Chong Eu, then Chief Minister of Penang, marched into his office at the top floor of the Tuanku Syed Putra Building in Downing Street, George Town. As usual, he had a newspaper under his arm and a few files in his hand, followed by his “office boy”, the...

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Dato' Seri Dr. Anwar Fazal

is a Penangite and the former President of the International Organisation of Consumers Union (IOCU). He is currently the President of the Dr. Wu Lien-Teh Society and is often described as a "Multiversity" for his vast and diverse interests and activism for over half a century.


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