Bleak Deepavali ahead for family


GEORGE TOWN: Deepavali this year would be a happier one for a family of four if they get to move out from their wooden house which is often inundated whenever there is heavy rain.

Cleaner S. Jeyajothi, 41, said they had been residing in the dilapidated two-bedroom house in Air Itam for the past four years after moving here from Kedah to look for a job.

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