GEORGE TOWN: The aroma of freshly baked walnut, cranberry and nam yee (red beancurd) biscuits wafts from the kitchen of Tan Phaik Hwei’s flat as the housewife carefully arranges her latest batch of biscuits into jars to be given out to the underprivileged.
GEORGE TOWN: Fifteen years ago, a set of triplets nearly had to be given up for adoption from the day they were born as their parents were too poor to raise three babies then.
GEORGE TOWN: Concerned for the welfare of pupils at SK Seri Permai here, its parent-teacher association (PTA) gave out school uniforms and other necessities to about 200 needy students.
GEORGE TOWN: For the sake of convenience, some “home alone” elderly people with mobility problems just drop their bags of waste from the balconies of high-rise buildings.
GEORGE TOWN: Having foreign workers living next door has become a way of life in some parts of land-starved Penang, with as many as six to 15 of them sharing an apartment of two or three rooms.