Guan Eng says probe necessary into high cement prices in Sarawak


  • Nation
  • Sunday, 23 Jun 2019

PUTRAJAYA (Bernama): Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng says an investigation is necessary to determine whether the practice of local industrial monopoly in Sarawak resulted in high cement prices in the state.

Although the government managed to curb rising cement prices in Peninsular Malaysia last week, the price of the commodity in Sarawak is significantly higher, he said in a statement Sunday (June 23).

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