The KL Hawkers and Petty Traders Association and e-commerce platform Shopee will be working together to bring Petaling Street traders online in time for the upcoming Chinese New Year (CNY)celebration.

The initiative called “Petaling Street Goes Ong-Line” will see participating traders being promoted under the “Buy Malaysia” initiative on Shopee, allowing their products to be marketed and sold nationwide.

Petaling Street, fondly known as Malaysia’s Chinatown, was earlier reported seeing their traders experiencing losses of up to 95 percent due to the ongoing movement control order (MCO) 2.0 in the country, as the daily announcement...