BUTTERWORTH: Kampung Manis sounds literally sweet, but it is really one of the poorest squatter communities in Penang.
It is the remnant of a pre-Independence settlement of labourers, built right beside the perimeter wall of Malayan Sugar Manufacturing (MSM), and that is how the village got the name Manis or sweet in English.
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