The bank will look for us,” shouted a vegetable wholesaler in Padang Lalang near here when a team from The Star visited him. The wholesaler feared that the financial institutions would go after him over his debts. Only on Monday night did floodwaters in town recede fully, and only yesterday morning could the townsfolk begin cleaning up. “Losses are in the millions of ringgit,” said Penang Vegetable Wholesalers Association chairman Datuk Kang Peng Weng. “We don’t know how to rebuild our home again, but there is no point crying,” she said.

Source: The Star November 07, 2017 23:41 UTC