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Article: Sweet and sour
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- New Straits Times
- Article date:
- August 7, 2009
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New Straits Times
08-07-2009
Sweet and sour
Edition: Main/Lifestyle
Section: Main Section
Type: Editorial
SHORTAGE? What shortage? The disappearing stocks of sugar on retail shelves in the north of the peninsula may have less to do with diminishing supply than rising demand - except that the demand in this case is north of the border. It's Economics 101: if a kilo of sugar costs RM1.50 here and RM2.70 in Thailand, expect people to do the math and truck the commodity across in handbags and suitcases to do a little cost-defraying business for themselves. Look not to international smuggling syndicates and criminal cartels as the culprits, but common folk - housewives and day-trippers from among ...
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