Tropical Christmas for stranded couple


Seasoned guests: Gray playing with Christmas decorations at the E&O Hotel alongside his parents, Phillip and Jordan. — LIM BENG TATT/The Star

GEORGE TOWN: Despite being stuck in Penang due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Myanmar-based British marine engineer Phillip Prescott and his family are glad that they get to celebrate a tropical Christmas.

His wife Jordan, an international school teacher in Myanmar, even delivered their baby boy Gray Prescott Benson in May.

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