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Malaysia’s inflation up 2.5 pct in 2021 on rising food, fuel prices

KUALA LUMPUR, June 1 (Xinhua) — Malaysia’s inflation, as measured by consumer price index (CPI), increased by 2.5 percent in 2021 from a year earlier, driven by rising food and fuel prices, official data showed Wednesday.

The increase was also higher as compared to 0.7 percent recorded during the pre-pandemic year of 2019, the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) said in a statement.

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