Bayan Baru has become one of the most fast-tracked developing towns on the island of Penang. This is in large part due to the establishment of the Bayan Lepas Free Industrial Zone which saw many multinational companies from around the world setting up operations there, creating a multiplicity of employment opportunities in the area. This in turn had prompted a boom in population in Bayan Lepas and the surrounding neighbourhoods as more and more people moved, worked and lived down south in those areas, out of Georgetown. (more)
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