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KUALA LUMPUR (April 18): Malaysia's inflation, as measured by the consumer price index (CPI), rose 1.3% in March 2018 from a year earlier on costlier items including food and non-alcoholic beverages besides healthcare, according to the Statistics Department.

In a statement today, the department's chief statistician Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Uzir Mahidin said the CPI's food and non-alcoholic beverage segment rose 2.8% while the health portion climbed 2%.

Uzir said, "The overall index was also affected by the drop in the transport group by 1.5% in March 2018. Other groups which also showed decreases were clothing & footwear (-0.7%) and communication (-0.7%)."

"Meanwhile, the CPI for the period January-March 2018 increased 1.8% as compared to the same period last year," he said.

For February 2018, Malaysia's CPI rose 1.4% from a year earlier, the department said.

 

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