Malaysia ban threat set to shake local industry

Gavin Lipsith

15-Oct-2004

Travel-retail lobbyists have warned that a proposal to ban duty-free tobacco sales in the country could be "very serious"

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The health ministry proposal, reported in The Malaysia Star earlier this month, has yet to be confirmed, although European Travel Retail Confederation secretary-general Keith Spinks told DFNI that a subsequent

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