Some citizens would get social welfare and livelihood support while the Department of Trade and Industry was directed to monitor \u201cunreasonable price increases on basic necessities\u201d, the Administration said.<\/p>\n
Asia Media Centre media adviser Carla Teng-Westergaard, a former journalist in the Philippines, said the move was needed for the country\u2019s working poor who have \u201cno savings buffer, no credit card, and no government safety net\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou are talking about a jeepney driver who cannot afford to fill his tank, so he doesn\u2019t work, so his children don\u2019t eat.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added that government declarations, however well-designed, are only as strong as the systems that deliver them.<\/p>\n
Private drivers in Slovenia are restricted to 50 litres a day. Photo \/ Corey Fleming<\/p>\n
In Europe, Slovenia has become the first country in the European Union to enact fuel rationing because of the war \u2013 but not because it is running out.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet me reassure you that there is enough fuel in Slovenia, the warehouses are full, and there will be no fuel shortages,\u201d Prime Minister Robert Golob said at the weekend, the BBC reported.<\/p>\n
Regulated fuel prices in Slovenia have kept fuel nearly 25% cheaper than neighbouring Austria, leading to \u201cfuel tourism\u201d, with drivers crossing the border to save money.<\/p>\n
Slovenia\u2019s Government has said private motorists are now limited to 50 litres of fuel per day.<\/p>\n
The Minister of the Environment, Climate and Energy, Bojan Kumer, said the Government would further reduce the excise duty to \u201csignificantly lower price increases than they would otherwise be\u201d.<\/p>\n
State institutions have introduced a four-day work week in Sri Lanka. Photo \/ Sandy Galabada on Unsplash<\/p>\n
In Sri Lanka, fuel prices have risen by a third since the war began nearly four weeks ago, AFP reported. The Government announced guidelines to reduce consumption by 25% to manage energy supply.<\/p>\n
Government spokesman Nalinda Jayatissa said state institutions had introduced a four-day work week and brought back work-from-home arrangements, according to Sri Lankan broadcaster News 1st.<\/p>\n
The Government has limited the use of air conditioning and said it must be maintained at 26C or higher.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hope the private sector too will abide by the guidelines,\u201d Jayatissa said.<\/p>\n
Most street lights, neon signs and billboard lights have been ordered to stay off at night, leaving much of the city dark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some citizens would get social welfare and livelihood support while the Department of Trade and Industry was directed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[95,665,806,138,6694,537,19398,154296,3806,219,15974,184418,1667,2678,26477,10110,2683,3556,111,139,69,22126,4291,10112,104498,5034,54895,61,48849,102,377],"class_list":["post-346567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-and","tag-around","tag-as","tag-business","tag-countries","tag-crisis","tag-declaring","tag-deepens","tag-east","tag-economy","tag-emergency","tag-enacting","tag-energy","tag-fuel","tag-leaders","tag-middle","tag-move","tag-national","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-petrol","tag-philippines","tag-power","tag-ration","tag-response","tag-restrictions","tag-to","tag-usage","tag-with","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}