GEORGE TOWN, March 9 -- There have been no incidents where temples or shrines had to be forcibly demolished in Penang over the past decades, said Penang Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow.

He said the state government has always sought peaceful solutions that involved relocating non-Islamic places of worship (RIBI) to make way for infrastructure projects or that were built on private lands.

"We have solutions that involved looking for suitable alternative sites and relocating RIBIs so the situation in Penang is under control," he said in a press conference after launching an AI for Manufacturing Programme and AI Sandbox at PSDC here today.

He said if RIBIs are located on lands to be developed, the state imposed conditions that the developers...