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Cigarette Smuggling Into Vietnam on the Rise

October 24, 2014 by admin News 0 comments

The smuggling of illegal cigarettes from Cambodia into Vietnam is on the rise, according to recent Vietnamese media reports, which names one of the most-smuggled brands as Hero—distributed in Cambodia by prominent CPP lawmaker Ly Yong Phat.

On Monday, VietnamNet, an online news site in Vietnam—where media outlets are strictly regulated by the communist government—quoted Pham Kien Nghiep, the secretary-general of the Vietnam Tobacco Association, as saying that the number of smugglers along the Cambodian-Vietnamese border has risen drastically this year.

 

http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/cigarette-smuggling-into-vietnam-on-the-rise-70853/

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