Former finance minister Lim Guan Eng has asked Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Alexander Nanta Linggi if he is prepared to resign if he could not reverse the soaring prices of basic necessities, like vegetables increasing by more than 100 percent.

"This morning I distributed nearly 400 food parcels to needy residents in my Bagan constituency badly affected by the price increase of basic necessities.

"Never before have Malaysians seen such high prices of...