Xinhua world economic news summary at 0900 GMT, April 10

HANOI — Vietnam earned 113 million U.S. dollars from exporting livestock products in the first three months of this year, up 4.8 percent year on year, Vietnam News reported Wednesday, citing the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Export of meat and edible offal reached 38.2 million dollars while that of milk and milk products was estimated at 36.8 million dollars. (Vietnam-Livestock-Export)
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PHNOM PENH — Cambodia exported products worth 6.26 billion U.S. dollars in the first quarter, up 18 percent from 5.3 billion dollars over the same period last year, said General Department of Customs and Excise (GDCE) in a report released on Wednesday.
Main exported products included apparel, footwear, and travel goods, bicycles, and a number of agricultural goods such as rice, rubber, cassava, bananas and mangoes, the report said. (Cambodia-Export)
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WELLINGTON — New Zealand’s central bank on Wednesday left the Official Cash Rate (OCR) at 5.5 percent to further contain inflation.
New Zealand’s current consumer price inflation remains above the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) Monetary Policy Committee’s 1 to 3 percent target range, said a RBNZ statement. (New Zealand-Official Cash Rate)
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SINGAPORE — Singaporean authority registered 9,783 e-commerce scam cases in 2023, more than doubling the 4,762 cases in 2022, according to a report issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs on Wednesday.
Nearly 50 percent of e-commerce scams last year took place on the social platform Facebook, where the scam cases surged to 4,550 from 1,138 in 2022, according to the E-commerce Marketplace Transaction Safety Ratings report.(Singapore-Ecommerce-Scams) Enditem