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Sweet flavors for Tet 

January 22, 2012
Sweet flavors for Tet 

  Mứt Tết (Tet candied fruits) is an indispensable treat during the Lunar New Year Tet is a time when everyone prepares a box of colorful candied fruits, or mứt Tết, at home to give visitors, gift to friends and family, and offer to ancestors. A typical visitor would munch on a candy and roasted [...]

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Sugar producers claim high prices necessary

January 26, 2010
Sugar producers claim high prices necessary

VietNamNet Bridge – Sugar sale prices have remained high, despite orders by MARD to slash prices to affordable levels.   Sugar manufacturers claim that they must raise prices because the world’s prices have escalated. In previous years, government agencies endured big headaches to fight imports smuggled over the Cambodian border. At that time, illegal sugar imports [...]

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No problem with our prices say domestic sugar producers

January 16, 2010
No problem with our prices say domestic sugar producers

LookAtVietnam – MARD said it is unreasonable that domestic sugar is more expensive than imports. However, sugar producers are denying the charge. In recent months the sugar price has climbed to a new height of 21,000-22,000 dong per kilo. Domestic sugar producers, while admitting that the price is now high, say the high price is reasonable. [...]

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Sugar prices a bitter pill for sweetmeat makers

January 11, 2010
Sugar prices a bitter pill for sweetmeat makers

Many enterprises are very worried about rising sugar prices as they prepare for the peak production period of the year with the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival just weeks away.  LookAtVietnam – Many enterprises are very worried about rising sugar prices as they prepare for the peak production period of the year with the Tet [...]

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Sugar prices a bitter pill for sweetmeat makers

January 9, 2010
Sugar prices a bitter pill for sweetmeat makers

Despite the recent hike, sugar prices in the country are not that high compared to the regional market. Many enterprises are very worried about rising sugar prices as they prepare for the peak production period of the year with the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival just weeks away. On December 30, sugar was priced at [...]

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Sugar rush blamed on low sugar cane output

December 25, 2009
Sugar rush blamed on low sugar cane output

LookAtVietnam – A prolonged ‘sugar fever’ has been blamed on a shortage of sugar cane. We ask how it could have occurred. The view from Tay Ninh Tay Ninh and Thanh Hoa are two provinces which have the biggest sugar cane growing areas in the south and north. If the three sugar plants in Tay Ninh [...]

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Who decides the price of sugar?

December 4, 2009
Who decides the price of sugar?

LookAtVietnam – Though the Vietnam Sugar and Sugar Cane Association protests that sugar is in plentiful supply, the sugar price still keeps escalating. Sugar cane price decides sugar price Last month, the wholesale price of white sugar increased by another 1,000 dong per kilo, to 16,500.  HCM City residents now have to pay 19,500-20,000 dong per [...]

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More sweet talk on sugar shortage

October 19, 2009
More sweet talk on sugar shortage

LookAtVietnam – The sugar shortage has not been alleviated and yet MARD still refuses to admit the scarcity of sugar in Vietnam. Tien Phong newspaper reported that the retail price of sugar has increased by 1000 dong in the last month.  At Intimex supermarket, consumers pay 18,000 dong per kilo for Bien Hoa sugar, whereas [...]

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Ministries lock horns over sugar quota as prices surge

October 5, 2009
Ministries lock horns over sugar quota as prices surge

MOIT has floated plans to allow enterprises to import more sugar, while MARD which argues that soaring prices only reflect a temporary shortage of domestic supply. According to a report in Tuoi Tre newspaper, Agroinfo, a Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Information (MARD) wire, says that refined sugar prices in Hanoi are now 60 [...]

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Vietnam plans to increase sugar import quota

September 30, 2009
Vietnam plans to increase sugar import quota

The Ministry of Industry and Trade plans to allow local companies to import another 10,000 tons of sugar this year to ease the sugar shortage in Vietnam. Although the Vietnam Sugar Association has always claimed it has sufficient sugar supplies, many firms can’t buy enough sugar for production and prices are really high, the Tien [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...