How a newspaper article helped save legend’s home

Omar posing with a clipping of his article at the P. Ramlee Gallery.

THE late Tan Sri P. Ramlee’s birthplace in Jalan P. Ramlee, Penang, would have disappeared had it not been for a journalist who discovered the landlord’s plans to demolish the building.

Omar Md Hashim, 67, better known as Omara, was then a part-time journalist with the now-defunct daily Bintang Timur when he broke the news about the planned demolition in 1980.