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Features : Five Months After Blaze, Kg Bahagia Residents Long To Return Home

Where a thousand wooden stilt houses once rose above the water, only blackened ruins remain. The floating village of Kampung Bahagia here was destroyed by a massive fire on April 19, leaving nearly 9,000 residents with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Against a backdrop of the charred remnants, rows of tents with white canopies – donated by non-governmental organisations – and huts made of…

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