Restaurants hit hard but ‘it’s not like we use a lot for one roti canai’


Making careful choices: Puteri Sriwani, 33, buying cooking oil at a hypermarket in Damansara. For many, they have to be prudent since the subsidies were removed.

PETALING JAYA: Malaysians entered November having to recalibrate their budgets following the reduction in cooking oil subsidy and the 15 sen increase in fuel prices.

Over in Johor, Singaporeans had to do calculations of their own as the first day of this month marked the start of the RM20 road charge (RC) for foreign-registered vehicles crossing the Causeway into Malaysia.

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