
Cheap sweets, costly toll: How junk food near schools is harming kids’ minds, bodies and future
KUALA LUMPUR, July 25 — “Do you want the 30 sen change or sweets?” a female vendor, who was selling homemade ice cream for 70 sen a stick, asked a schoolboy who handed her RM1. “Sweets,” replied the boy before walking away with his ice cream and sweets. …