Off-campus students surviving on teh-o, Maggi during MCO


Diyana Ibrahim

A giant billboard urging Malaysians to ‘Stay Home’ in Kuala Lumpur during the movement-control order. The MCO has been extended until April 14. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Nazir Sufari, April 2, 2020.

COLLEGE student Ahmad Muaz Zahari’s only “meal” for four straight days was teh-o that he and his housemates made when the movement-control order was first imposed on March 18.

That was all that was left in their rented house in Negri Sembilan and that was all he and his housemate could afford as the day before, they used up all their cash to buy plane tickets back to Sabah.


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  • The one million ringgit Zuraidah spent on sanitizing our roads could have been used to feed these hungry students and the poor PPR flat occupants. What a pathetic waste of good money.

    Posted 3 years ago by Elyse Gim