Greener touch to Qing Ming

Eng Ong Heong Trading shop owner Angeli Choo Ee Zan, 49, showing the private jet, yacht, superbike and bicycle made of papers at her shop in Burma Road, Penang./Picby: CHAN BOON KAI/The Star/23 March 2017

NEWS reports linking the annual Qing Ming festival to a spike in dengue cases have resulted in a rise in the sale of environmentally friendly joss stick urns in Penang.

Shopkeeper Ang Siew Siew said biodegradable urns had been selling like hot cakes for the past few weeks.