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Rice Farm
Agriculture   Economy   Food   Photos   Society		  Examiner 
High demand, price of rice good news to US farmers
WILLIAMS, Calif. (Map, News) - Dipping its left wing, a canary-yellow biplane makes a sharp turn and dives over a flooded field, showering rice on the shallow water fifteen feet below. It's aerial... (photo: Creative Commons / miya)
INDIA-FRUIT-MARKET
Asia   BIo Fuel   Food   Inflation   Photos		  The Manila Times 
Surging food prices bite across Asia
From the rice paddies of Asia to the wheat fields of Australia, the soaring prices of food are breaking the budgets of the poor and raising the specters of hunger and unrest, experts warn. A billion... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
RICE - FOOD - COMMODITY  Canada Dot Com 
Rice crisis a 'silent tsunami'

BANGKOK - When cyclone Nargis swept through the Irrawaddy Delta, it shattered both Myanmar's famed rice bowl as well as any hope Asia's rice crisis might abate anytime soon. It's not that the isolated... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo)
Bangkok   Crisis   Myanmar   Photos   Rice
Bangladesh Cyclone  The Australian 
Deadly power of 'delicate daffodil'
NARGIS, the name of the killer cyclone that has devastated Burma, was revealed by Indian officials yesterday to be an Urdu language word meaning "delicate daffodil". BP Yadav, director of the Indian... (photo: AP Photo / Pavel Rahman)
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UAE rice importers call for 25% subsidy

Abu Dhabi: Rice importers in the UAE are demanding at least a 25 per cent subsidy for rice as international prices continue to rise and stocks come under pressure. The... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
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The week's best travel bargains around the globe, by land, sea and air. . Save up to 40 percent on all-inclusive vacations at Occidental Grand and Allegro resorts in... (photo: Creative Commons / mona)
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A Myanmar soldier, right, pauses and he and his colleagues unload bags of supplies aid, donated by Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej, from a Thai military plane onto a truck at Yangon airport in Myanmar Sunday, May 11, 2008. More food reached Myanmar's hungry cyclone victims as roads were cleared of fallen trees, but a British aid group warned that up to 1.5 million face death if they do not get clean water and sanitation soon Philadelphia Daily News
Boat carrying Myanmar aid sinks; toll climbs beyond 28,000

The Associated Press YANGON, Myanmar - A Red Cross boat carrying rice and drinking water for cyclone victims sank Sunday, while the death toll jumped to more than 28,000... (photo: AP / Apichart Weerawong)
Aid   Disaster   Myanmar   Photos   Red Cross
Myanmar soldiers unload boxes of supplies from a Thai transport plane at Yangon airport in Myanmar Tuesday, May 6, 2008. Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta, where nearly 22,000 people perished, remained largely cut off from the rest of the world Tuesday, four days after a cyclone unleashed winds, floods and high tidal waves on the densely populated regio USA Today
More aid finally reaching Burma's cyclone victims

Posted  | Comment  | Recommend | | | Rangoon, Burma (AP) — Food and water reached cyclone victims in greater amounts Sunday after many roads were... (photo: AP / )
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'Disease disaster' in Myanmar

Bangkok, Thailand - Getting supplies to survivors of a brutal cyclone in Myanmar is now a "race against time" to prevent a disease disaster, as many impoverished victims... (photo: GFDL)
Asia   Cyclone   Disaster   Disease   Health   Myanmar   Photos
Agriculture Fram rice farming rice field.(ai1) Bahrain Tribune
Saudis to grow rice in Thailand

DUBAI (Reuters) Saudi Arabia, one of the world's top rice buyers, is likely to start investing in rice farms in Thailand by the end of 2008 in a move to boost... (photo: WN / Ady )
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