{"id":165388,"date":"2026-04-07T12:12:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=165388"},"modified":"2026-04-07T12:12:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:12:04","slug":"laundry-sector-left-holding-bag-by-diesel-cost-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=165388","title":{"rendered":"Laundry sector &#8216;left holding bag by diesel cost surge&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsstatic.rthk.hk\/images\/mfile_1850086_1_M_20260406120556.jpg\" alt=\"news image\"><br \/>The recent rise in fuel prices caused by the ongoing Middle East conflict has hit Hong Kong&#8217;s laundry sector hard, an industry representative said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Dragon Kong, a board member of the Hong Kong Laundry Services Association, said the price of industrial diesel has surged from HK$6 per litre at the end of February to HK$17.50 this month &ndash; a rise of more than 190 percent&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.rthk.hk\/rthk\/en\/component\/k2\/1850086-20260406.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#38405;&#35835;&#26356;&#22810;&#65288;Read More&#65289;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent rise in fuel prices caused by the ongoing Mi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-localnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}