KUALA LUMPUR: Higher food prices continued to be a main factor for the hike in inflation as the consumer price index, which saw the consumer price index (CPI) rising 1.3% in October from a year ago.
The Statistics Department said on Friday the CPI rose to 105.4 in October 2012 from 104.0 a year ago as the index for food & non-alcoholic beverages and non-food increased 2.0% and 1.1% respectively.
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