Mixed feelings for Kenya-bound mayor


GEORGE TOWN: The email came in at 5.03am, and then the mayor of Penang Island City Council (MBPP) could not go back to sleep.

Datuk Maimunah Mohd Sharif then called Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and state Local Government Committee chairman Chow Kon Yeow and broke the news yesterday.

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