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                                <title><![CDATA[ I'm poor, but that's no licence for DBKL to treat me like garbage, says vendor as doctor warns of paralysis ]]></title>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Low-income Malaysians must work longer for basic food items, UM study reveals ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 01:52:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Low wages and income inequality limit households' ability to afford adequate and nutritious food. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ In Seremban, 'poorest of poor' tenants flee flats as city council breaks down doors ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 03:59:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Unable to pay their rent, they have taken to their heels, leaving even personal belongings behind. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ A CNY marked by poverty ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 08:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ While wealth and prosperity are a common theme in Chinese New Year greetings, many still celebrate the occasion with very little or nothing at all. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ A family's water problems ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 26 Dec 2024 05:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Chua Theam Kok and his family are forced to collect water in buckets but scramble to cope whenever the rain comes pouring through the leaks in their old wooden house. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ For poverty-stricken family in Perak, water a luxury as well as a bane ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2024 04:16:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ There is no clean water supply in the house, but whenever it rains during the monsoon season, their problems become worse. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Living with snakes and hoping for better next Deepavali ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2024 00:04:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ P Paramasivam and his family cannot afford to repair their rundown home. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Poverty dims Deepavali light for Tanjung Malim family ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2024 04:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ For S Mariamar and her family, it is all they can do just to survive. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Homeless amid rubble, Gombak villagers forced to live in tents ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2024 00:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The residents of Kampung Sri Makmur cannot accept the way they were treated by the authorities who came with their demolition machines. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Is Malaysia's poverty trap being institutionalised? ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2024 11:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
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