Editor’s Note: This article has been amended to better reflect the context of Anwar’s comments and add more details about the tariff increase.

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim today said that electricity tariffs must rise in the second half of this year.

“The decision is to me something which needs to be done because prices have to rise according to the capacity in the price at the particular period,” he told attendees at a Chinese New Year celebration with business leaders at the Shangri-La Hotel in Kuala Lumpur...