So can they open for business or not?


Family business: A hardware shop owner arranging merchandise in Chulia Street, Penang. — LIM BENG TATT/The Star

GEORGE TOWN: Three days into the movement control order, many businesses still unsure whether they are allowed to operate have decided to shut down temporarily while others are forging ahead and hoping for the best.

The decades-old hardware shops in a lane along Chulia Street here are all open for business although none of them has applied to the International Trade and Industry Ministry (Miti) for approval.

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