Food prices up 1.6 pct in April

5 July 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
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Cambodia saw a one per cent rise in inflation in April compared with the same month last year, according to the latest data from the National Institute of Statistics (NIS).

Sim Ly, an official at the NIS said there was a slight increase in food and beverage prices during that month, a time of celebration in Cambodia, when demand for food increases during the Khmer New Year. …

The NIS’s data showed that the price of food and non-alcoholic beverages rose by 2.1 per cent – mainly due to to an increase of 1.6 per cent for the price of rice. …

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