Pandemic makes traditional ‘sugarcane feast’ low-key affair


MELAKA: The Melaka Portuguese community observed The Feast of the Assumption, also known as the “sugarcane feast”, minus the usual large crowds, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Local historian Joseph Sta Maria said the pandemic has forced the celebration to be a low-key affair with no church service at the Assumption Church along Praya Lane in Bandar Hilir, yesterday.

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