Hanoi builds sugar mill

Hanoi builds sugar mill

HANOI (AFP): Singapore's Kecepe Limited has won a license to build a US$30 million sugar plant in a central Vietnamese province, a report said Saturday.

The plant to be built in Thua Thien Hue will produce refined sugar and derivatives from sugar, the Lao Dong newspaper said. Construction will start at the end of this month and production is expected to begin in 1999.

The plant will have an initial capacity of 2,500 tons of sugar cane per day which will be expanded to 5,000 by 2000.