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Dyera costulata, the jelutong, is a species of tree in the family Apocynaceae. It grows to approximately 60 metres (200 ft) tall with diameters of 2 metres (5 to 6 ft), or even to 80 m (260 ft) tall with diameters to 3 m (10 ft), [ 3 ] and boles clear and straight for 30 m (90 ft).
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Jelutong is a suburb of George Town in the Malaysian state of Penang. Located 3.2 km (2.0 mi) south of the city centre , Jelutong has been inhabited since as early as the late 18th century, when traders from Aceh and India settled around the area.
However, Jelutong was later carved out of the southernmost corner of the city centre as a separate mukim in 1966. [3] Prior to the independence of Malaya in 1957, George Town had been conferred city status by Queen Elizabeth II, making it the first city within the new nation. In the post-independence years, George Town remained the largest and ...
[44] [45] Direct British rule meant better enforcement of the rule of law, as Penang's police force was vastly improved and the secret societies that had plagued George Town during the preceding decades were gradually outlawed, although underground triads persisted in industrial areas such as Jelutong until well into the 1980s.
Jelutong is a federal constituency in Northeast Penang Island District, Penang, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Dewan Rakyat since 1974. The federal constituency was created in the 1974 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system.
Later, the expressway was extended northwards as the Jelutong Expressway, and southwards as the Bayan Lepas Expressway. On 7 December 2010, after former second Penang chief minister Lim Chong Eu died on 24 November 2010, the Penang state government renamed the expressway Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu Expressway in his honour.
Jelutong, Penang, is a suburb of Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia. Jelutong may also refer to: Jelutong (federal constituency), Penang, represented in the Dewan Rakyat;