Cheah clan may lose 205-year-old clan house in Penang


Court order: Yusmizan putting up the writ of seizure and sale (inset) at the Seh Tek Tong Cheah Kongsi premises in George Town’s Armenian Street.

GEORGE TOWN: One of Penang’s oldest clanhouses – the Seh Tek Tong Cheah Kongsi – is under threat of being sealed and its assets seized in an ongoing legal spat with a deve­loper over breach of agreement.

The Kongsi has been given seven days to pay more than RM4.7mil to Hun Meng Development Sdn Bhd or risked the 205-year-old clanhouse being put up for public auction.

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