Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng has urged the public to make fun of him instead of flood victims.
"If you need to make fun (of someone), make fun of me. Don't laugh or make fun of flood victims," Lim told a press conference in Penang today.
Penang was inundated by floodwaters last weekend after a freak tropical storm. The floods claimed seven lives and displaced thousands on the island and the mainland.
Meanwhile, Lim again appealed to the federal government to release at least RM1 billion of the RM2.6 billion allocated for flood mitigation projects in the state...