{"id":145634,"date":"2021-09-24T16:56:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T08:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=145634"},"modified":"2021-09-24T17:00:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T09:00:11","slug":"malaysias-inflation-up-two-percent-in-aug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=145634","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia&#8217;s Inflation Up Two Percent In Aug"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 24 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8211; Malaysia&#8217;s inflation, as measured by the consumer price index (CPI), rose two percent year on year in Aug, official data showed today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The transport group continued to record a double-digit increase since Mar, and edged up 11 percent in Aug, as compared to a year ago, the Department of Statistics Malaysia said, in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The food and non-alcoholic beverages were up 1.2 percent year on year in Aug.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels registered a marginal increase of 0.6 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the period Jan to Aug, the CPI increased by 2.3 percent compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Core index, which covers all goods and services except volatile items of fresh food, as well as, administered prices, rose 0.6 percent year on year, in Aug.&#8211; NNN-BERNAMA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 24 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8211; Malaysia&#8217;s inflation, as measured by the consumer price index (CPI), rose two percent year on year in Aug, official data showed today. The transport group continued to record a double-digit increase since Mar, and edged up 11 percent in Aug, as compared to a year ago, the Department of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":145636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,300,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145634"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}