People from Africa and South Asia often struggle with racism in Malaysia. Photo: Alamy
People from Africa and South Asia often struggle with racism in Malaysia. Photo: Alamy
Malaysia

Racism in Malaysia’s housing market: how landlords get away with barring African and South Asian tenants

Indian and mixed-race tenants reveal their flat-hunting woes in multicultural Malaysia, which has no law against racial discrimination and no plans to enact one, allowing property owners to run ads saying ‘Chinese only’ or ‘No African’

People from Africa and South Asia often struggle with racism in Malaysia. Photo: Alamy
People from Africa and South Asia often struggle with racism in Malaysia. Photo: Alamy
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