PENANG: When veteran politician Dr Lim Chong Eu (now Tun) spoke about building a bridge linking Penang Island to Butterworth on the mainland way back in the 1950s and 60s, there were many sceptics.
They felt that such a massive infrastructural undertaking may not be feasible as no such bridge had been built in the region before.
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