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Fiji sugar corporation says financial crisis won't affect market
15:45:46, 9 October 2008, Radio Australia News
The Fiji Sugar Corporation Limited says the financial crisis in the US will have no real effect on Fiji's sugar markets abroad, at least in the medium term.
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