The Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court was told today that former Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng had informed the State Government Council meeting that the state’s major road and undersea tunnel project was awarded through open tender.

Former Penang state executive councillor Lim Hock Seng, 73, said that during the meeting on April 27, 2011, there was a note stating that Lim had said there was an open tender with regard to the project before he left for China...