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Conservationists fear renovation will drive out locals, killing George Town's unique cultural heritage. With its Chinese shophouses, colonial bungalows and Anglo-Indian mansions, the city has no peer among the region's ports. The central district is an Asian kaleidoscope, housing rich and poor, skilled and unskilled, and people worshipping a variety of gods and plying different trades. Living cheek by jowl are the descendants of immigrants from China, India and Indonesia, along with Burmese, Thais, Europeans and Arabs and more.