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KEK Lok Si Temple’s project to construct a car park has apparently been welcomed by traders and residents but the plan has come under fire from non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Air Itam ...

A view of Kek Lok Si, the largest Buddhist temple in Malaysia, circa 2013. (Great Malaysian Railway Journeys pic) The Kek Lok Si temple in Ayer Itam, Penang, is located on a hillside offering fine ...

GEORGE TOWN: Days before Chinese New Year, some 500 resident tortoises at the Kek Lok Si Temple have been moved to a new home – the Oriental Garden at the foothill of the temple. The landscaped ...

That was why Kek Lok Si Temple here was all abuzz when receiving Buddha relics from Thailand on Sunday. The gift of the relics came from Wat Hong Rattamara Ratchaworawihan, a secondary royal ...

Tonight, the 126-year-old Kek Lok Si Temple in Air Itam, Malaysia, was all aglow as thousands of lights illuminated the biggest Buddhist temple complex in Southeast Asia. From up above ...

GEORGE TOWN, Feb 3 -- The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a lot of changes and even Penang’s iconic 130-year-old Kek Lok Si Temple in Air Itam has not been spared as its annual lighting-up ceremony will ...

The largest temple in south-east Asia, the 19th century Kek Lok Si Temple is best known for the seven-storey pagoda (which is as old as the temple), and a huge bronze statue of the Goddess of ...