This is an attempt to record all the price hikes reported in Singapore for the year 2008. Readers are welcome to contribute to the list via the comments form, and I will update the list.

I hope this will become a useful tool for Singaporeans who are skeptical of official statistics on Consumer Price Index and inflation rates, in getting a better ‘ground-level’ gauge of how much living costs have gone up by against your own wages.

I will try to find some time to search for information on price hikes dating back to the beginning of this year, so that we can have a temporal representation of the hikes. For starters, I have defined some categories to begin with.

Basic Food Items (i.e. rice, cooking oil, etc)

Hawker/Canteen Food

July - NUS canteen food prices go up by 20% ($1.50/$1.80 noodles now cost $1.80/$2.00)

Electricity

Fuel

Transportation

7 July - Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) rates to be increased
16 July - ComfortDelGro introduces 30 cents fuel surcharge for taxi rides
Coming in October - forseeable public transport fare hikes!