Petrol Price Decrease by 15 sen

Hahhh... I am glad. Petrol price reduce again. I am really glad.

So, petrol price goes down, would other prices (of foods, services, consumables) also be reduced?

Well, let us just see. Chances are, it will remain unchanged. So, keep on the program and effort to lower our expenditures. May be we can try to reduce leisure dinner and lunch at the hotels and switch to lunch and dinner at the stall?

But I am sure not everyone will agree. But that is everyone right. Do what you think is best!

Mobile Phone Changes

019 for Celcom, 012 for Maxis, 016 for DiGi.

They are no more applicable. You can now register any number at any of the service provider.

Let say, you have a 019 number but you are very unsatisfied with Celcom service. Just bring you SIM card and your existing no to DiGi and re-register it there. After that you will be using the same 019 mobile phone number but subscribe to DiGi as a service provider.

So, what are you waiting for. If you have been disappointed with your current service provider, why not change it? You can still retain your existing number.

Restaurateurs explain why food won’t get cheaper

Food at restaurants and hawker stalls will not be cheaper despite the price cut of consumer goods by hypermarkets.

“It does not make sense for us to reduce the price of food at restaurants unless the petrol price is reverted to RM1.92,” said Malaysian Muslim Restaurant Owners Associa­tion president Jamarulkhan Kadir.

“All this while, we have been absorbing higher costs as we haven’t been increasing our food prices even after the price hikes. So I don’t see why we should lower our prices now,” he told The Star yesterday.

Malaysian Indian Restaurant Owners Association president Datuk Ramalingam Pillai also felt that the petrol price reduction did not justify restaurants charging their customers less.

“The question of us cutting our prices does not arise as we have always maintained our prices,” he said, adding that it was only fair that restaurants made up for their reduced profits now.

Taiping Hawkers Association chair­man Tan Thian Kooi said it was un­­likely that hawkers would lower their prices because suppliers were reluctant to reduce the price of ingre­dients.

“It is difficult for hawker food prices to change according to petrol prices as they are also dependent on the cost of supplies,” he said.

Tan added that the high electricity tariff would deter factories producing the ingredients to lower prices.

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Government to relook and shelve some projects

The Government will review and shelve some projects including those in the economic corridors in view of the global economic slowdown, said Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

The Prime Minister said the Government would decide which projects should go ahead and which could be put on hold.

“We have made the decision to review the projects once again. We need to postpone some projects which have yet to start construction,” he said at Akademi Kenegaraan’s closing ceremony for the Spirit of Merdeka 2008.

Abdullah said the action was appropriate because these were big projects and involved huge sums of money.

“The review involves all projects including those in the economic corridors. We will implement those we can afford and hold back those which can be postponed,” he said.

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