The Star Online: Metro

Mobile traders turn road into night hawker centre

THE growing township of Puchong is fast making a name for itself as an unusual food promenade featuring mobile hawker vans turning one whole road into a sort of night food mall.

Kepong Baru traders in jitters over frequent thefts

A SPATE of break-ins at shoplots along Jalan Ambong Kanan in Kepong Baru, Kuala Lumpur, is causing fear among the business community in the area.

Glorious Malay fare

AUTHENTIC Malay cuisine cooked with tender loving care: this is what Baiti’s Restaurant in Taman Tun Dr Ismail, Kuala Lumpur, advocates.

Getting to know each other

ORIENTATION day yesterday for Year One pupils was a busy day for many parents as they witnessed the start of a new chapter in the life of their children who will start formal schooling on Monday.

Culprits may be trespassers

THE fire at the Jelutong dumpsite on Thursday and yesterday could have been caused by trespassers, said Penang Municipal Council’s (MPPP) Engineering Department director Khoo Say Boon.

Perak clearing land title backlog

THE Pakatan Rakyat government has cleared about 14,000 of the 16,000 applications for land titles since taking control of Perak in March.

Tough tussle to the top

BAHAROL Alam Football Club lived dangerously before successfully retaining their Penang Under-21 League champions title at the Polo Ground recently.

TRADITIONAL villages in Malacca such as the Portuguese Settlement, Kampung Chitty and Kampung Morten may be familiar tourist spots, but many are unaware that the state is also home to Malaysia’s oldest Catholic Chinese New Village.

Rise in travel levies affecting Malacca

The Malacca state is worried that the number of Indonesian tourists visiting Malacca will decline following plans by the Indonesian government to increase levies on those travelling abroad.