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Hike in price of cooking gas hits pockets

The price of cooking gas increases by one baht a kilogramme on Friday, raising the cost of a 15kg cylinder refill from 318 baht to 333 baht. The LPG price will rise one baht per kilogramme per month for three months, until June. (Bangkok Post file photo)

The cost of cooking gas rose by one baht a kilogramme on Friday, and people called on the government to better control consumer prices as incomes remained stagnant or dropped.

Rujipas Saengcharoenthana owns a cooking gas shop in Charansanitwong.

He told reporters the price of a 15kg cylinder of liquified propane gas (LPG) increased by one baht per kilogramme, from 318 baht to 333 baht, on Friday.

Under government policy it would continue to rise by one baht a month until June….

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