Keyword: "food prices"

The March index gained 2.44% from December 2025 and posted a 4.65% year-on-year hike, the highest March reading in five years.

Malaysia’s national debt has reached an alarming level, with total domestic and external borrowings amounting to 1.3 trillion MYR (310 billion USD) as of June, representing 64.7% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) - just shy of the statutory debt ceiling of 65%.

Major contributors to the four-month CPI hike included food and catering services, which rose by 3.86% year-on-year and contributed 1.3 percentage points to the overall CPI growth, according to the National Statistics Office.

The Indonesian Government has been working toward adequate stocks of cooking oil, meat, and rice to keep their prices stable, Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman said.

Food prices are expected to remain high for the rest of the year as the El Niño weather phenomenon affects production in Indonesia and other countries, the National Food Agency (Bapanas) has said.

Domestic food producers are facing increased costs while trying to keep prices down to stimulate sales, said industry insiders and experts.

HSBC has lowered its forecast on Vietnam’s inflation rate in 2022 to 3.5 percent from its earlier prediction of 3.7 percent due to the stable domestic food price, which is expected to help curb the country’s headline inflation, according to a report released by the bank on June 14.

Malaysia's Consumer Price Index (CPI) in November 2021 increased 3.3 percent year-on-year to 124 points, according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DoSM).

Consumer price index (CPI) of Ho Chi Minh City in November decreased 0.17 percent over October, but rose 1.83 percent compared to the same time last year.

The consumer price index (CPI) rose by 1.82 percent year on year between January and September, the slowest hike since 2016, the General Statistics Office has announced.

The August consumer price index (CPI) went up 0.25 percent from July, 2.51 percent from December 2020, and 2.82 percent from the same period last year. However, the eight-month CPI rose by only 1.79 percent year on year, the slowest pace since 2016.

The consumer price index (CPI) climbed 3.85 percent year-on-year between January and September, the highest nine-month CPI growth over the last five years, the General Statistics Office reported.

The surged consumption demand during the long Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday made the consumer price index (CPI) grow in February.

Foreign capital inflows to the Indonesian financial market doubled to over 46 trillion IDR (3.54 billion USD) by the end of January, compared to 17 trillion IDR in the same period last year.

Consumer price index (CPI) in May dropped by 0.53 percent from the previous month mostly due to a sharp fall in food prices, the General Statistics Office (GSO) said on May 29.

Medicine and healthcare services prices this August post the sharpest monthly hike, 6.18 percent, compared to five other goods and services categories that share the same upward trend.