The verbal war between Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and MCA deputy president Wee Ka Siong over the undersea tunnel project in the northern state took a technological turn this afternoon.

During a presentation of an educational robot by Cytron Technologies, a question was posed to the chief minister, in jest, if he would use the robot to respond to Wee, since Lim had said he was tired of doing so.

Lim replied that the “robot's fuse would burn” if tasked with responding to the MCA leader's queries...