‘Just five minutes lah’ stops meet end of road


TRAFFIC came to a standstill along one of the busiest stretches in Penang during a recent holiday season.

After a 15-minute bumper- to-bumper crawl, I finally saw the cause: a car parked on the left lane, turning the two-lane road into a single lane.

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