Entrepreneurs beating the odds, creating jobs during MCO


AFTER having to close their restaurant during the movement control order (MCO) period, husband- and-wife team Rosnizam Ishak and Roazian Md Noor (pic) were very worried as their source of livelihood had come to a halt.

The only foreseeable incoming money was the Bantuan Prihatin Nasional (BPN) cash aid which the government had announced in March as part of its RM260bil Prihatin economic stimulus package.

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