Penang has been one of Malaysia's major industrial centres since the 1970s. It is not strange therefore that so many Penangites, male and female, on both the island and mainland, are or have been factory workers. This is the story of one of them.

THANKS TO THE Bayan Lepas Free Trade Zone (FTZ), Penang has been the major industrial zone in Malaysia for over three decades. Leading high-technology brands like Intel, Agilent, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Robert Bosch, Osram and Motorola have been operating there all these years.