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Kien Giang (VNA) – Representatives from Cambodian localities and agencies have paid visits to the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang on the occasion of the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) festival. During their meetings with Kien Giang’s leaders, officials of the provinces of Takeo, Kampot, Preah Shihanouk, Koh Kong, and Kep, together with those from the Royal Cambodian Gendarmerie and the General Department of the National Police, highlighted and appreciated cooperation results between Cambodian localities and Kien Giang. They expressed their admiration for socio-economic-cultural achievements recorded by the Vietnamese locality in 2019. Heads of the Cambodian delegations said they hope that on the basis of the fine relations and extensive cooperation between Kien Giang and Cambodian localities, the two sides will continue to enhance their bonds in the coming time. For their part, leaders of Kien Giang province wished for everlasting friendship and cooperation … [Read more...] about Cambodia’s delegations pay Tet visits to Kien Giang

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Starting from this year, Vietnam is going to implement the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA). Accordingly, sugar products from countries in the ASEAN imported into Vietnam will not be imposed quotas so there is a high possibility that the price of imported sugar will be cheaper than the domestic one. Moreover, the domestic sugar industry has been always facing difficulties because of smuggled sugar so this is expected to be a rough year for the domestic sugar industry. Last year, Thailand exported more than 1 million tons of sugar to Cambodia but only 200,000 tons of sugar were consumed here so the rest 800,000 tons of sugar might be smuggled into Vietnam. On average, Vietnam needs 1.45 million tons of sugar annually which can be provided sufficiently by the domestic sugar industry. However, cheap smuggled sugar competes with domestic sugar, hurting the domestic sugar industry. At a meeting on prevention of sugar smuggling, Mr. Truong Van Ba, Deputy Chief of the Standing Office … [Read more...] about Vietnam’s sugar industry expected to face more difficulties this year