New opportunities multiplying for Batu Kawan folk


Chew showing a photo of her old hawker stall which was in front of her house in Batu Kawan village. Now she has a booming restaurant business, partly thanks to the development in the area. — Filepic

IN the early 1990s, Chew Seok Ching was a hawker selling char koay teow, laksa and ais kacang from a stall outside her village home in Batu Kawan, Penang.

After several years of hardship, she saved enough to open a seafood restaurant in 1995, the first in the constituency.

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