On inflation in Asia.

• Author: Rees, Matthew
• Position: Brief article

"China, which has been a net oil importer since 1994, last week reported a fall in consumer price inflation. But that was the one small piece of good news on prices in the region for months. For developing Asia as a whole, consumer price inflation hit 7.5 percent in April, close to a nine-and-a-half-year high and more than double the 3.6 percent pace of a...