Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng appeared to have outdone Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak today on announcing bonuses for civil servants in their 2018 budget.

Lim announced that the Penang civil servants with "good service records" would be getting a bonus of RM2,000 to be paid next month.

“We will be paying the amount by the end of this year, not next year,” he said.

The good service record is to be determined by state secretary Farizan Darus...