{"id":23835,"date":"2019-01-24T16:54:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T08:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=23835"},"modified":"2019-02-04T11:55:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T03:55:41","slug":"price-decrease-in-food-not-due-to-sst-says-tan-kai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=23835","title":{"rendered":"Price decrease in food not due to SST, says Tan Kai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Political Secretary to the Chief Minister, Tan Kai asked Deputy Minister for Domestic Trade and Consumers Affairs Chong Chieng Jen to be logical and not to say that the implementation of SST has caused the prices of certain goods to go down.<\/p>\n<p>Tan Kai said he has studied the prices of vegetables and GST and SST is only 4 percent \u201cThere are various reasons caused the increase or decrease of goods\u2019 price, don\u2019t simply lie to cover the inability of the Federal Government.<\/p>\n<p>He said Chong\u2019s claims that 70% of goods are dropping price followed the implementation of SST is so out of reasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere could be other reason caused the drastic price drop of the vegetables, for example, it could be due to excessive production from China and India so for Chong to link the drastic drop in price of vegetables due to implementation of SST is ridiculous and he has become a laughing stock.If the deputy minister of domestic trade and consumer think that \u00a0implementation of SST is the right solution for the goods price to drop, then he should take a look at the price of seafood,\u201d said Tan Kai.<\/p>\n<p>He urged Chong to conduct a survey at the seafood market and he believed that the deputy minister will be surprised at the high price in sea foods especially fish and prawn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/unnamed-19.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-23836\" alt=\"unnamed (1)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/unnamed-19-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/unnamed-19-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/unnamed-19-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/unnamed-19.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Secretary to the Chief Minister, Tan Kai asked Deputy Minister for Domestic Trade and Consumers Affairs Chong Chieng Jen to be logical and not to say that the implementation of SST has caused the prices of certain goods to go down. Tan Kai said he has studied the prices of vegetables and GST and SST is only 4 percent \u201cThere are various reasons caused the increase or decrease of goods\u2019 price, don\u2019t simply lie to cover the inability of the Federal Government. He said Chong\u2019s claims that 70% of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=23835\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23900,"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\/23835"}],"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=23835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23837,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23835\/revisions\/23837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}