MCA says response to Mao wallpaper too harsh, worries about China relations

MCA has expressed concern over the authorities reaction to a Penang restaurant that featured the caricature of communist revolutionary leader Mao Tse Tung, who is also the founder of the People's Republic of China.

MCA vice-president Tan Teik Cheng said the wallpapers at the Hunan cuisine restaurant in Bukit Mertajam, which was raided yesterday, were only decorations and the reaction was too harsh and "sensitive"...