Licences finally given to Brickfields’ elderly traders


Zainal Abidin (second from right) with the seven traders who received their DBKL trading licences from him. – Photos: MUHAMAD SHAHRIL ROSLI/The Star

DBKL also assures them that there will be no more talk of relocation

Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) has finally issued trading licences to seven elderly traders operating in Little India, Brickfields, whose stalls were seized in a pre-dawn raid five years ago.

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