DBKL clears air over controversial notice barring refugees from wholesale market


KUALA Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) has come out to clear the air over an in-house notice that went viral over social media recently about a ban on refugees shopping at Pasar Borong Kuala Lumpur.

A DBKL spokesman clarified that they were not allowing refugees into the wholesale market to prevent them from buying goods that they would later resell outside.

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