{"id":15902,"date":"2017-03-02T23:20:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T15:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=15902"},"modified":"2017-03-02T23:23:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T15:23:27","slug":"hike-in-sugar-and-imported-rice-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=15902","title":{"rendered":"Hike in sugar and imported rice prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the recent hike in sugar price and imported rice, SUPP Youth\u00a0Central Publicity Secretary Milton Foo issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>1. Due to the weak currency and foreign exchange loss, the cost of\u00a0sugar has increased, so as the cost of imported rice. The government\u00a0at this particular period should care more and understand the hardship\u00a0of the people by ensuring that the price of these daily necessity\u00a0items do not increase and to provide subsidies or even incentives\u00a0(such as tax deduction for example) to the manufacturer and importers\u00a0in order to reduce their costs, rather than to put the burden on the\u00a0people.<\/p>\n<p>2. The currency of Malaysian Ringgit is so weak and the government\u00a0needs to take drastic steps and comprehensive measures to revitalize\u00a0the economy of our country.<\/p>\n<p>3. People&#8217;s life is hard and living in pain. As a responsible and\u00a0caring government, it has a duty to ensure that the price of sugar and\u00a0white rice remain unchanged, as the increase in price may also cause\u00a0the price hike to other items rendering high inflation where people\u00a0will suffer at the end of the day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/image14.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15903\" alt=\"image1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/image14-300x279.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/image14-300x279.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/image14.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the recent hike in sugar price and imported rice, SUPP Youth\u00a0Central Publicity Secretary Milton Foo issued the following statement: 1. Due to the weak currency and foreign exchange loss, the cost of\u00a0sugar has increased, so as the cost of imported rice. The government\u00a0at this particular period should care more and understand the hardship\u00a0of the people by ensuring that the price of these daily necessity\u00a0items do not increase and to provide subsidies or even incentives\u00a0(such as tax deduction for example) to the manufacturer and importers\u00a0in order to reduce<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=15902\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15902"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15904,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15902\/revisions\/15904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}