Showing compassion: A shopper giving money to a beggar whose right leg and arm have been amputated at the Bandar Baru Air Itam night market in Penang. — Photo: CHAN BOON KAI/The Star
MANY beggars in Penang are so well padded that in the night markets, they supply loose change to traders.
They are neither homeless nor impoverished, and state welfare officers have discovered that they are in it for the ‘thrill of begging’.
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