Johor stops S'poreans from buying palm oil-based cooking oil
KUALA LUMPUR - THE Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Department of Malaysia's southern Johor state has stopped Singaporeans from buying palm oil-based cooking oil, local media reported on Monday.
Officers have been deployed at Johor-Singapore Causeway and Malaysia-Singapore Second Link to check Singapore vehicles leaving the country, Enforcement Director Fahmi Kassin said.
'We have also instructed supermarkets and shops to put up signs saying that palm oil-based, subsidised cooking oil is only for Malaysia.
However, Singaporeans are allowed to buy other types of oil,' the New Straits Times quoted Mr Fahmi as saying.
The measure was imposed after the shortage of palm oil-based cooking oil in parts of Johor state became acute on Friday.
The shortage was especially bad in rural areas and smaller sundry shops as these traders generally did not have large stocks, Mr Fahmi said.
Checks at a supermarket and a hypermarket revealed that their stocks of oil were quickly snapped up as soon as they opened for business.
It is learnt that at the hypermarket, shoppers bought the 5kg bottles of palm oil-based cooking oil as soon as workers unpacked them and loaded them onto shelves. -- XINHUA
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