Everyone’s Still Talking about Rice Vietnamese leaders have rejected Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej’s assertion that a Southeast Asian rice price-fixing cartel was soon to be in business. According to the Vietnamese government, the Thai negotiators who were scheduled to visit them in Vietnam to thrash out the issue last month had never even shown up. [...]
May
3
Everyone’s Still Talking about Rice
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Apr
25
Japan Says No to Thai Rice Because Price Not Nice
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Japan Says No to Thai Rice Because Price Not Nice After the price of rice doubled in one month, Japanese importers have decided to decline an order for 60,000 tons of Thai rice, according to the Thai Rice Exporters Association. For centuries, Japan did not import rice at all, so that their local farmers could [...]
Apr
8
Price of Rice Not Nice in Hong Kong
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Price of Rice Not Nice in Hong Kong (1com Thai News) A rice shortage is to Hong Kong what Godzilla is to Tokyo. A 30 per cent rise in the cost of rice has led to hoarding and panic buying among residents of Hong Kong as the specter of living a day without rice casts [...]
