Penang homeless refuge taking shape


No place like home: This green space along Jalan Magazine will become the pocket park of the transit centre.

GEORGE TOWN: When the medical team rushed to his help, the elderly man still had the ability to say his name was “Liew Fok Tho”.

But early next morning, on Nov 16, the homeless man died in hospital of acute coronary syndrome.

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