‘Use NS camps to shelter migrants’


GEORGE TOWN: The state government has suggested that vacant National Service training camps be used as temporary shelters for the Rohingya migrants.

There are four such camps in Penang, and the state is ready to help in providing much needed shelter, Penang Welfare and Caring Society Committee chairman Phee Boon Poh told The Star.

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