Let’s breathe easy at public parks


The public welcomes Selangor’s move to enforce the ban on smoking and drinking alcohol in parks and playgrounds in the coming months. Banners and updated signboards with QR codes have been set up to first educate the public. — Filepic

“Breathe in, breathe out,” instruct trainers to participants of an exercise group quietly gathered at a neighbourhood park in Subang Jaya.

However, the tranquillity of the morning is shattered by hooligans occupying a nearby gazebo smoke, drink and talk loudly.

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