Penang govt probe destruction of historic tomb


GEORGE TOWN: The Penang government will probe the demolition of a 138-year-old grave belonging to Foo Teng Nyong (estimated 1816 to 1874), the third wife of Kapitan Chung Keng Kwee.

State Tourism and Creative Economy Committee chairman Yeoh Soon Hin said a special licence was given by Penang Island City Council (MBPP) on March 18, 2022 as well as an official letter on the extension of the permit issued on July 26, 2022, to exhume the remains from the burial grounds but not to destroy the ancestral tomb.

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