{"id":238136,"date":"2025-11-01T16:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T16:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/238136\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T16:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T16:59:09","slug":"why-subsidise-sugar-when-cheaper-options-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/238136\/","title":{"rendered":"Why subsidise sugar when cheaper options exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SPECIAL REPORT | Why is the sugar subsidy, which burdens the government\u2019s coffers by up to RM500 million a year, being continued &#8211; especially when diabetes has already become a national crisis?<\/p>\n<p>And why does the government maintain the subsidy when there are companies that can sell it at a cheaper price even without subsidies?<\/p>\n<p>The above are among the questions confusing even officers within the Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Madani government\u2019s decision to continue the sugar subsidy is baffling,\u201d said one ministry officer, who requested anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>The view was shared by several other officers who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPECIAL REPORT | Why is the sugar subsidy, which burdens the government\u2019s coffers by up to RM500 million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-238136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}