The role played by Francis Light, an Englishman widely credited with founding modern Penang, was brought into question during a discourse on Kedah history today. The presenters said while Light ...

When you think of British explorers from centuries gone by, you tend to think of the likes of Sir Francis Drake ... the East Anglian man behind Penang. Light began his naval career in 1754 ...

But the interior remains “historical”. With Sir Francis Light (the founder of Penang) statue standing at the entrance “to welcome'' visitors, those who explore the museum can look forward ...

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 ...

Chandra Muzaffar thinks Francis Light did not discover Penang. He is both wrong and right. It is a question of how one looks at history. The truth is we are all colonisers in one way or another ...

where Penang’s founder Sir Captain Francis Light is buried. The cemetery had its last burial in 1892, with Cornelia Josephine Van Someren interred there. All burials since then have moved to ...

HISTORY: TOLD AS IT IS | Recently, the media has reported on the intense debate among both politicians and academicians pertaining to the acquisition of Penang island by Francis Light on behalf of ...

In 1786, merchant and former naval officer Francis Light claimed the Malaysian island Penang for the British. Fifty years later, in 1836, his son William, appointed surveyor-general of the colony ...