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This photo illustration shows a customer smoking at a vape store in Manila on November 20, 2019. - Just hours after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced he would ban e-cigarette use, police were ordered on November 20 to begin arresting people caught vaping in public and to confiscate the devices. (Photo by DANTE DIOSINA JR / AFP)

In a report on the global debt themed "A threat to government fiscal stability”, it said a weaker economy with higher inflation and interest rates would jeopardise government fiscal space and revenue sources. - AFP pic

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob waving hand as he left after opening the 2022 National Security Conference (PKN22) held in conjunction with National Security Month celebration today. - BERNAMA

BNM is expected to increase the Overnight Policy Rate OPR by another 25 basis points this year, likely in the next Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting on Sept 8, said OCBC Bank.

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The increase comes amid surge in food prices

Economists said an increase in interest rate is inevitable due to skyrocketing prices of food and goods at the moment which has become the main bone of contention among Malaysians. - Photo: BERNAMA

Messages of healing are written in chalk on the sidewalk in front of Highland Park Presbyterian Church, site of a prayer vigil for the victims of the July 4 shooting in Highland Park, Illinois on July 5, 2022. - (Photo by MAX HERMAN / AFP)

Datin Seri Sunita Rajakumar (third from right) during the launch of Nomura Asset Management Malaysia’s first Global Sustainable Equity Fund.