“Among them is the grave of Datuk Jenaton, a Minangkabau leader who travelled from Batu Bara to Kedah and Penang before settling here in 1749, long before the arrival of Captain Francis Light, the ...

Captain Francis Light, a British explorer and naval officer credited as the founder of Penang, is a familiar name to most Malaysians. In George Town, where he was buried after dying from malaria ...