GEORGE TOWN: A hot spell with lower rainfall is projected in Malaysia from now until March but Penang has already seen a “fiery” start to the year with a blaze that damaged a cemetery in Lorong Batu Lanchang and a peat fire at a landfill that caused the evacuation and closure of schools.
NIBONG TEBAL: The Pulau Burung landfill area, which is on fire, has been declared as a Level 1 disaster area based on a National Security Council directive, say police.
GEORGE TOWN, Jan 18 Barely a week after physical classes resumed this year, schools near the Pulau Burung landfill in mainland Penang have been ordered to close and switch to home-based teaching and learning for the rest of this week due to noxious fumes from a fire last week. Education chief.