NGO: Save Tunku’s home


So much history: The current owner of Rumah Takdir has put it up for sale for RM62mil.

GEORGE TOWN: The mansion of the first prime minister of Malaysia, the late Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj, should be gazetted as a heritage building, says the Penang Malay Association (Pemenang).

“There is so much history and invaluable treasure in that house that the Tunku named ‘Rumah Takdir’, where he lived his private life for about 40 years, ” said its president Tan Sri Mohd Yussof Latiff.

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