Premier Cho defends 12.5 percent electricity rate increase

Premier Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰) on Tuesday defended the decision to raise electricity rates for industrial customers starting mid-October, noting that enterprises would be helped to reduce energy consumption to offset the higher costs.

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