Brand new look for trishaw riders


Fitting choice: Trishaw riders selecting their new clothes while Ho (second from right) joins them. — LIM BENG TATT/The Star

GEORGE TOWN: A team of ­elderly trishaw riders here will be looking dandy this Chinese New Year.

Touted to be part of Penang’s living heritage, the 16 were each given festive attire worth RM200, thanks to a group of friends who paid the bill at a departmental store here recently.

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