Price hikes: The poor need a lifeline, not empty calls to support subsidy cuts

With the impending price increase of RON 95, a round of price hikes involving other goods is also imminent. Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has urged the general population to be thrifty and to do some belt-tightening. But for the nation's poor, the way the belt is being tightened, it is almost to suffocation point and they need oxygen and a life-line. Not empty exhortations for austerity