Kg Manis folk still waiting for changes

Space for development: The current landscape of Kampung Manis in Butterworth. — ZHAFARAN NASIB/The Star

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.