THE EXISTENCE OF the countryside is key to city development. It balances urban stress and supplies the city's needs and sustenance. Urban resilience is almost i...
ENTERTAINMENT A CENTURY ago was found mainly in George Town. But in 1936, the Odeon cinema, founded by the Chiah family, opened to serve the Butterworth communi...
The 109.38-hectare (ha) George Town UNESCO World Heritage Site (WHS) contains more than 1,700 buildings, making it the largest collection of pre-war buildings i...