KUALA LUMPUR: The Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs is reviewing the necessary essential goods to be listed in the price control scheme, says Datuk Seri Alexander Nanta Linggi(pic).

       As such, the Minister said, the types of goods to be included in the list of price schemes for the festive season in conjunction with Hari Raya could be less or more.

       However, he said, the list of items would be based on the people’s need to prepare for the festival.

       "Now that the price control scheme for chicken and eggs has been implemented, by Aidilfitri, we will add various more items for the price control. The list will be announced soon,” he said at a press conference after launching the Companies Commission of Malaysia’s (SSM) 20th anniversary celebration at Menara SSM here.

       Apart from that, he said the ministry was prepared to assist the Transport Ministry address the issue of the increase in the price of air and bus fares, especially with the coming Hari Raya celebration.

       Yesterday, the media reported that express bus fare would be increased by almost 10 per cent to 10.2 sen per kilometre starting at the end of this month, ahead of the Hari Raya celebration.

       Earlier in his speech at the opening of the event, Nanta said during the two decades of SSM's establishment, over 8.5 million businesses, 31,168 Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs) and 1,446,196 companies were registered as of March 31 last year.

       He said he ministry and SSM were optimistic that the number of business and company registrations would increase this year in line with the recovery of the economic sector, as well as the current transition to the endemic phase. - Bernama