4 tobaccoasia Issue 5, December 2020 / January 2021
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CONTENTS
Publisher/Founding Editor
Glenn Anthony John
gaj@octobermultimedia.com
Associate Editor
Nattira Medvedeva
nam@octobermultimedia.com
Contributing Editor
Thomas Schmid
ths@octobermultimedia.com
Correspondents
Allen Liao (China)
Dr. Iqbal Lambat (Global)
Art Director
Somjet Thitasomboon
Translations
Tobaccochina Online
Office Assistant
Aek Jekaram
Subscriptions/Administration
Malisa Kongkatitum
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Editorial/Circulation
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10 Q&A: Eric Piras
The Future of Premium
Cigars in Asia
FRONT FEATURES
16 Have Governments
Forgotten Dialogue?
20 HK Unfazed by US
Trade Privileges Loss
22 PMTAs: Where Will the
Chips Fall?
PRODUCT FEATURES
30 Premium Cigars Dawn
Over Africa
38 Chinese E-Cig Producers'
and US FDA's PMTAs
42 China Cigarette Market
and Covid-19
MANUFACTURING FEATURES
48 TMQS: Spare Parts and
(Much, Much) More
LEAF TOBACCO FEATURES
56 Indonesia: The Big
JEMBERee
CLOSING FEATURE
64 WHO Mines Covid-19 for
Anti-Tobacco Strategies
68 Closing the Gap in GAP
Features
Departments
6 From the Editor
12 Front Page News
26 Product News
46 Manufacturing News
52 Leaf News
62 Closing News
72 Events
74 Patents
75 Advertisers Index
Cover: Air-and-sun curing of Jatim
(Credit: PT. Mangli Djaya Raya)
Tobacco Asia Issue 5, 2020 (December 2020 / January 2021)
