GEORGE TOWN, March 22 — Residents of high rise buildings near the construction of a highway project in Penang on a precarious hill slope are living in fear of landslides due to large swatches of the hills being cleared for the project.

A residents’ association committee member from the Kingfisher Series Condominium, Richard Lim, said there are no guarantees by any of the authorities or project developer that the indiscriminate hill clearing will not lead to unwanted disasters.