KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s inflation rose by 1% in December last year, in line with a Bloomberg forecast, underpinned by higher food prices, with Kuala Lumpur exceeding the national average.
According to the Statistics Department, the consumer price index (CPI) increased by 1% in December to 122.3 compared with 121.1 a year ago.
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