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Shaik Ismail Allaudin says the matter of compensation will be pursued after all the bodies have been sent back.

The 200 personnel called off the rescue operation after no more signs of other victims.

LETTER | Despite having agencies to oversee hill slope developments, we severely lack monitoring and enforcement.

UPDATED 11.45PM | Rescue team is still looking for another victim who was reported missing.  

UPDATED 4PM | This was exacerbated by heavy rains, says the Minerals and Geoscience Department.

SAR operations will be focused on the three sites identified by the tracker dog unit.

When the man realises it was his son he had pulled out, he hugged the body tight.

SAR deputy commander says it had to be suspended this morning for fear of more landslides.

NGO says it made two reports, claims when 14 concrete beams collapsed at site, no action was taken; questions MBPP's 'monitoring' of the works.

UPDATED 10:14PM | Two bodies have been retrieved; about 200 rescue personnel are at the site with K-9 sniffer dog unit on the way from Putrajaya.

UPDATED 5PM | Afternoon landslide at a construction site in Paya Terubong kills two, buries workers' lodging; 12 remain trapped. 

LETTER | Politicians can play with words and semantics, but not people’s lives.

UPDATED 12.58PM | Wan Junaidi, however, refuses to 'politicise' the Penang floods and says the state should prioritise flood mitigation projects.

Guan Eng says inquiry will seek causes of the landslide, and recommend action to be taken against those responsible.

The slopes are properly designed and endorsed by professionals, says city council geotechnical adviser.

Chief minister says the organiser, Penang Forum, can still write in to arrange a meeting. 

COMMENT | Lives were lost in the Penang landslide tragedy - is the issue being looked at intelligently?

ADUN SPEAKS | The Penang Forum dialogue can hardly be described as an informative one.

Ramasamy also queried if Penang Forum's event is 'a life and death thing' that everyone must attend.

Dialogue session moderator Ahmad Chik had to remind crowd the event is not a political meeting.

A measly fine will not deter repeated offences related to hillslope developments, says a lawyer.

The party reps were slammed for being ‘too busy’ to attend the talk organised by Penang Forum.

BUDGET 2018 | The meaning behind poem posted by Kepong MP Tan Seng Giaw is questioned by Najib.

MP SPEAKS | Mistruths about the tragedy are being spread, some deliberately.