Philippine inflation soars to fresh high of 5.7 pct in July

  A customer buys vegetables inside a public market in Manila, the Philippines, on Aug. 7, 2018. Headline inflation in the Philippines continued to accelerate for the seventh month hitting a fresh high of 5.7 percent in July due to sustained elevated prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Rouelle Umali)