Chicken prices ‘going up’

LONG queues at stalls selling a popular chicken dish, increasing prices and warnings about supply disruptions – Singaporeans are in a flap due to curbs on poultry exports from neighbouring Malaysia.

Malaysia’s move to halt exports of 3.6 million chickens a month, which kicked in on Wednesday, is the latest protectionist move in Asia aimed at tackling domestic shortages and taming surging inflation.