By Jessica Lim

PRICES of eggs from Malaysia have been on the rise in recent weeks, bucking the downward trend in the cost of other staples such as wheat and rice.

Prices of wheat, for example, slid to about US$5.40 (S$8.26) a bushel yesterday, down from about US$13 a bushel in February; Thai fragrant rice prices slid to US$827 a tonne this week, down from US$1,222 in May.

In the wet markets, however, a pack of 10 large eggs now goes for $1.90, up 15 cents from three weeks ago.

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