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More than a thousand furniture plants ordered to shut down

[:en]The government has ordered some 1,154 family-unit furniture plants across the country to shut down their illegal operations, a government spokesman announced yesterday. Additionally, more than 20 wood processing plants located in or near conservation and protected forests areas were also ordered to close down. The order was approved at the meeting between Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith and his deputies that took place on August 29 when the Task Force Committee reported its findings in relation to the illegal operations.[:]