2007: 8

Aliran Monthly 27: 8 editor’s note

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Nov 172007
 

AM coverOur cover storey zooms in on an iconic monument to folly known as the Penang Global City Centre (PGCC) project with an eye-popping development value estimated at RM25 billion.

Critics, however, have dubbed it the Penang Graveyard and Crematorium Complex because of its proximity to a crematorium and a cemetery. Already the civil society campaign against the PGCC is gaining momentum as more and more Penangites become aware of its horrendous environmental implications.

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