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Yeap was a Penang Heritage Trust Living Heritage award recipient.

WOODEN idol carver Yeap Siew Kay, a Penang Heritage Trust Living Heritage Award recipient, left us on Saturday. He was 76.

He slipped into a coma after collapsing at home on Feb 12. It turned out that the master carver was suffering from brain hemorrhage.

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