It was a gloomy Year of the Snake for a couple in their 80s in Jalan Kolam Air, Kuala Lumpur, and the Year of the Horse does not look promising either.

Once the Lunar New Year holidays are over, the couple could lose their 60-year-old home and be rendered homeless due to a surveying discrepancy regarding their land.

Speaking on behalf of the family, one of the couple’s daughters, who wished to be known only as Lai, said her parents were issued an eviction notice nine months ago by the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) to make way for a road expansion project in the area.

The couple, who asked to be...