GEORGE TOWN - Fishing villages were once all the naked eye could see on Penang island’s eastern shores from Butterworth on the mainland portion of the state in Malaysia’s north-west.
But since the rapid industrialisation dating back to the 1970s, the eastern skyline of state capital George Town now more closely resembles that of other cosmopolitan islands like Singapore and Hong Kong.
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