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Rice losing place on Asian plate as diets improve (Reuters)

                   
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May 18, 2008
        
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By Niu Shuping and Mayank Bhardwaj 1 minute ago BEIJING/NEW DEHLI (Reuters) - Rice prices have surged this year for many reasons, but unlike most other commodities, fast-growing Chinese and Indian demand isn't one of them. If Chinese rice demand follows the trend seen in wealthy Japan it could... [read full story]                    

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Rice and Baloney

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Rice losing place on Asian plate as diets improve

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Rice and Baloney

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May 21, 2008
        

By Sebastian Mallaby (THE WASHINGTON POST, 19/05/08): We are now several months into the global food crisis, which is a much bigger deal than the subprime meltdown for most people in the world. Food prices have almost doubled in three years, threatening to push 100 million people into absolute...

                   

Sources: RP may import 300,000T Thai rice

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May 21, 2008
        

Reuters MANILA - The Philippines is studying a proposal to buy 300,000 tons of rice from Thailand as part of a bilateral deal between the two Southeast Asian neighbors, officials from the state grain agency said on Tuesday. No decision has been reached yet on whether the proposal will go through...

                   

Japan's Rice Stockpiles Could Ease Food Crisis (U.S. News & World Report)

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May 20, 2008
        

U.S. News & World Report - In the mid-1990s, under pressure from other countries, Japan began importing rice for the first time in at least a generation. Since then it has imported hundreds of thousands of tons of rice, much of it from the United States. But little of the rice has been consumed...

                   

Malaysia's Rice Diplomacy

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May 20, 2008
        

By Dr.Abdul Ruff Colachal Kuala Lumpur has been hard put these days on account of scarcity in essential commodities, particularly rice. As a result, Asian commodity and currency markets could be plunged into chaos after the Malaysian government threatened to abandon standard trading channels in...

Japan gets US nod to end rice hoarding

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May 20, 2008
        

Japan gets US nod to end rice hoarding The US and Japan are poised to strike a deal that will remove one of the most reviled distortions in global rice markets and could send prices plummeting in the coming weeks. Senior government sources in Tokyo said Japan had received permission from...

                   

RP mulls importing 300,000T rice from Thailand - sources

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May 20, 2008
        

Reuters The Philippines is studying a proposal to buy 300,000 tons of rice from Thailand as part of a bilateral deal between the two Southeast Asian neighbors, officials from the state grain agency said on Tuesday. No decision has been reached yet on whether the proposal will go through or when,...

                   

Sebastian Mallaby: Governments pile on the food crisis

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May 20, 2008
        

We are now several months into the global food crisis, which is a much bigger deal than the subprime meltdown for most people in the world. A new paper from the Center for Global Development describes how Japan's government imports rice in order to comply with its global trade commitments but...

                   

Irrational policies feed world food crisis

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May 20, 2008
        

We are now several months into the global food crisis, which is a much bigger deal than the subprime meltdown for most people in the world. A new paper from the Center for Global Development describes how Japan’s government imports rice in order to comply with its global trade commitments but...

                   

Making the food crisis worse

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May 20, 2008
        

We are now several months into the global food crisis, which is a much bigger deal than the subprime meltdown for most people in the world. Food prices have almost doubled in three years, threatening to push 100 million people into absolute poverty, undoing much of the development progress of the...

                   

Wealthy Nations Aggravate Food Crisis

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May 20, 2008
        

We are now several months into the global food crisis, which is a much bigger deal than the subprime meltdown for most people in the world. Food prices have almost doubled in three years, threatening to push 100 million people into absolute poverty, undoing much of the development progress of the...

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