A queue forming outside a pawnshop in Kota Kinabalu yesterday. Most businesses can now operate under the conditional MCO but many desperate households are resorting to flogging off valuables and borrowing from loan sharks to survive. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Irwan Majid, May 19, 2020.
PUBLIC-SERVICE bureaus of political parties are dealing with desperate appeals for help from those who turned to loan sharks to get by during the movement-control order . Complainants come from all walks of life and are not limited to the unemployed, the heads of bureaus from MCA and DAP told The Malaysian Insight.
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