PENANG: After days of lying low in the face of growing anger, Penang Municipal Council president Datuk Abu Bakar Hassan came forward and apologised for his remark regarding the attire worn by a woman journalist at a council meeting.
He apologised to the New Straits Times journalist Melissa Darlyne Chow and other quarters for his statement.
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