Panel to study living costs


KUALA LUMPUR: Several ministers will be part of a high-level committee tackling the rise in living costs when it meets in January.

Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said he would be heading the committee, which would look into views from various non-governmental organisations.

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