KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 20 -- Bars and restaurants in the Jalan Telawi area at Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur were left confused yesterday over allegedly different sets of instructions given by the police just hours apart on whether they could serve alcohol, a report has said.

News portal Free Malaysia Today (FMT) cited Joshua Billique who owns a bar as saying that the police had visited 30 such outlets at 4pm to ask them to cease serving alcohol, with the police citing the National Security Council (NSC) rules.

"They then came back at around 8.30pm to say we could serve alcohol but without bartenders and bar lights, so we were all confused," he was quoted as saying, claiming that only the area was affected while other areas in Kuala Lumpur such as D...