Boat operators, fishermen, and local residents take their own initiative to dredge Sungai Merang in Setiu, Terengganu after they received no help from successive state governments. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, June 4, 2023.
BAYAS Island in Tasik Kenyir, Terengganu, which was mooted as a duty-free centre, should have become a new tourist attraction in the state but remains incomplete due to politics and change in state government, say tourism operators. They said the mega project kicked off during the Barisan Nasional administration in 2010 and was pegged at RM118 million.
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