Bread and butter issues cut deepest wound


Going strong: Umno delegates, seen here at the opening ceremony of Umno’s 70th general assembly. — AZLINA ABDULLAH

ROHANA (not her real name) sells kuih in her kampung in Pekan and the rise in the price of sugar and cooking oil has eaten away at her profit margin.

“I can’t raise prices because then people in my kampung will not buy my kuih.

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