KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim (pic) assured that the government is not sitting idle and will do everything in its power to ease the burden of the people affected by the current increase in global rice prices.
He said this included the various intervention measures announced by Agriculture and Cost of Living Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Sabu on Monday (Oct 2) to ease the people's concern regarding the increase in the price of imported white rice and the rise in demand for local white rice.
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