Marina Emmanuel
New Straits Times
07-10-2004
Penang set for greater advances
Byline: Marina Emmanuel
Edition: The City Advertiser; 2*
Memo: Birthday of Penang's Yang di-Pertua Negeri.

AS its Yang di-Pertua Negeri Tun Abdul Rahman Abbas turns 66, Penang is set to chart a new course of economic development with a focus on information and communications technology and biotechnology, writes MARINA EMMANUEL.

TUN Abdul Rahman Abbas, who turns 66 today, has reason to smile as good fortune seems to belong to Penang.
The island State, which made its mark more than three decades ago as the "Silicon Island of the East" by serving as an offshore site for some of the world's top technological giants, is ...