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Article: Bangladesh's first local beer debuts
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- October 13, 2009
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Bangladesh's first local beer debuts
DHAKA, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- A local company has launched the first
Bangladeshi-brewed beer earlier this month to compete with high-
priced imported peers.
The brewer -- Crown Beverage Ltd, a concern of Bangladesh's
leading Jamuna Group -- started brewing beer after receiving a
license from the country's Department of Narcotics Control (DNC)
this year, said a report of the leading English newspaper the Daily
Star Tuesday.
Quoting officials of the department, it said the company would be
able to sell its beer to off-shops, bars, clubs and hotels that have
a permission to sell this as the Muslim majority South Asian country
does not allow free sale and ...