Taking each day as it comes


No business: Four seafood restaurants in Kampong Sungai Temon along Sungai Danga in Perling, Johor Baru that were popular with Singaporeans before the border closure on March 18, 2020. In the background is Danga Bay. — ZAZALI MUSA/The Star

THE past two years have been extremely challenging for Johor’s Orang Seletar or Orang Laut.

Falling under the lower income bracket, these communities struggled to survive when the Covid-19 pandemic hit Malaysia in March 2020.

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