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Sweetening the palm sugar sector
Sok Chan

With 30 bamboo containers on his shoulder, May Vuth from Phnom Touch commune in Oudong district, Kampong Speu stares into his plantation, rueing how palm sugar production is a dying industry in Cambodia. It no longer attracts youngsters although it was once the pride of the farming sector in the Kingdom.

Oil majors expand alliances and investments in Belt, Road economies

China National Petroleum Corp, the country’s biggest oil and gas company, is planning to step up cooperation with countries and regions participating in the Belt and Road Initiative to further major project investments, oil and gas trade, engineering services, and new energy cooperation.