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Taiwan Raising Its Fuel Prices   台灣提高燃料價格

  Anchor:A surprise announcement by the country's cabinet has Taiwanese crowding petrol stations around the island to fill up before the government raises fuel price.

  新聞主播:台灣內閣突然宣佈提高油價,使得台灣人蜂擁至全島的加油站,為了在政府提高油價之前加油。

  STORY:Taiwan's decision to raise fuel prices marks the latest move by Asian economies, such as Indonesia and Sri Lanka who are doing the same.

  新聞內容:台灣決定提高燃料價格,代表亞洲經濟體的最新行動,像是印尼與斯里蘭卡也正在這麼做。

  Kaohsiung Resident:「I have trucks capable of 20 tons, five tons and three tons, but these buckets will only last about three weeks.」

  一位高雄居民說:「我有20噸、5噸與3噸的卡車,但這些桶油僅能夠持續用約三個禮拜。」

  Taiwan is among many Asian countries facing the double blow of slowing economic growth and rising inflation.

  台灣是在許多亞洲國家之列,同時面臨經濟成長遲緩與通膨上升的雙重打擊。

  Liu Chao-shiuan, Taiwan Premier:

  「We are only reflecting the cost of international oil gas prices and to avoid the psychological impact of inflation, the inflation will become effective starting from midnight of May 28.」

  台灣閣揆劉兆玄說:「我們僅僅是反映國際油價成本,並且避免漲價的心理衝擊,調漲將會自5月28日深夜起生效。」

  Economists expected May's Consumer Price Index to climb by 4.4 percent from a year earlier, higher than April's figure, and has a current forecast of 2.8 percent for the full year.

  經濟學家預期5月份消費者物價指數,比4月份的數字高,較去年同期上揚4.4個百分點,目前預測全年的指數是2.8個百分點。

  The government will also lift power prices on July 1st.

  台灣政府也將在7月1日提高電費價格。

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