Kacang puteh seller may get a second bite


Gone to waste: Janaki sitting by the roadside after enforcement officers from Ipoh City Council prevented her from doing business.

IPOH: A kacang puteh seller whose snacks were pictured strewn on the ground outside the Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun here as she sat dejectedly by the roadside may get a reprieve.

Ipoh City Council (MBI) secretary Mohd Zakuan Zakaria said he had asked a city councillor to meet S. Selvajanaki, 41, and discuss her situation.

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