Same in Malaysia. A big bowl of noodles cost RM $3.50 
early last year. Now it cost RM $4.00. It depends on
the location you are at. I live in Selangor. Pricing
is just mad. Chinese tea used to be 30 cents now 50
cents...... 

John Chung


--- Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc@gmail.com> wrote:

> This year I am "in charger of" buying the food items
> for Chinese New Year
> and the price is going up by quite a bit. Singapore
> government is saying
> that this is mainly due to the fact that a lot of
> food items here are from
> China and Australia. Due to some unfavorable nature
> conditions the
> import price from China/Australia have gone up. It
> is said that CPI
> will get even higher after Chinese New Year.
> 
> And my mom told me the price in China goes up even
> higher than here.
> 
> That is for basic food items. Housing price in
> Singapore gets significant
> higher in year 2007. The same for China.
> 
> How about other places?
> 
> Xiaofan
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