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Cigarette smuggling from Cambodia to Vietnam abounds

15 February 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Economy and commerce / Exports / Imports / Trade
555 / ARA / British American Tobacco (BAT) / Cambodian markets / Chinese aid / Cigarette / CPP Senator / customs department / Department of General Customs and Excise / domestic market / ERC International Plc / Hero / Hero King Co Ltd / Hub Shipping Sdn Bhd / Hudson Tobacco / Indonesia / Jet / Laos / London / Ly Yong Phat / LYP Group / Malaysian aid / Marlboro / Ministry of Economics and Finance / Ministry of Finance / Phnom Penh Autonomous Port / Pt Sumatra Tobacco Trading Company / sihanoukville / Tariffs / Thai Boon Roong Co Ltd / Thailand / Theng Bunma / Thomson CompuMark / Thomson Reuters / tobacco industry / tobacco manufacturer / Trade / Turkey / Value Added Tax / Vietnam Tobacco Association / Vietnamese / World Health Organization

A pair of cigarette brands distributed by two of the Kingdom’s most prominent businessmen are being smuggled from Cambodia to Vietnam at an estimated rate of more than 300 million packs a year, contributing to tobacco manufacturer losses of nearly $200 million annually, according to ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013021561384/Business/cigarette-smuggling-from-cambodia-to-vietnam-abounds.html

WHO Urges Higher Taxes On Tobacco

18 September 2012
The Cambodia Daily
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economy and commerce / Trade
farming / Framework Convention on Tobacco Control / Ministry of Finance / public health / Tax revenues / taxation / Tobacco / tobacco control / tobacco farmers / tobacco industry / tobacco products / tobacco prodution / tobacco taxes / World Health Organization (WHO)

The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday urged Cambodia to increase taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products-currently the lowest in the world-in order to raise revenue and deter smokers. Ayda Yurekli, coordinator of the WHO’s tobacco control economics unit, said during a workshop in Phnom Penh ...

Factory Suspends Operations After Complaints Over Fumes

7 September 2012
The Cambodia Daily
Economy and commerce / Investment / Trade
BAT / British American Tobacco (BAT) / British American Tobacco (Cambodia) Co. / crops / Factories / foreign companies / foreign investors / Ministry of Industry / Tobacco / tobacco factory / tobacco industry / tobacco plant

British American Tobacco (Cambodia) Co. (BAT), which produces the cigarette brand ARA, suspended operations at its re-drying plant in Kandal province’s Takhmao commune yesterday, in order to allow time to redesign its air filtration system following repeated complaints about fumes that were allegedly spewing from ...

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Factory Suspends Operations After Complaints Over Fumes

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