KUALA LUMPUR, May 5 -- The multiple heart-breaking photographs of many Malaysians queuing up in front of pawnshops on the first day of the conditional movement control order (CMCO) yesterday is a sign of a troubled economy, observed PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

In a Facebook Live video today, the opposition lawmaker pointed out that a study by Boston Consulting Group have also found that the national growth on health, education, income, comfort levels over the past decade have been very slow, without much improvement or development.

"Only one month of problems and we can see not just the B40, but the M40 were also queuing up at what? Seven to eight locations where people lined up in droves in front of pawnshops. This is despe...