QuickCheck: Is the grave of a powerful Penang woman from the 1800s currently at risk of exhumation?

THE descendants of Foo Teng Nyong (estimated 1816 to 1874) have said on social media that her grave off Jalan Bunga Telang in Fettes Park in Penang on a piece of land measuring roughly 0.25ha will be exhumed to make way for development.

On Tuesday (March 1), several of her descendants – including a great-grandson – said on social media that the present landowners had contacted them and requested that they exhume her grave to make way for development.