Contractor vows to replace broken artwork

Damaged: Ong standing beside what is left of wooden sculptures of jigsaw puzzle pieces carved out of a large hardwood tree that fell during the 2017 storms in Penang.

GEORGE TOWN: In 2017, three terrible storms flayed Penang and gigantic roadside trees, some planted way before independence, fell.

They were sawn into logs and carted away but local authorities did not have the heart to simply throw them away because they were rare.