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Asia's vendors grapple with rising costs of ever-present plasticsRising plastic costs: Asian food vendors are struggling with soaring plastic costs, a direct consequence of the Middle East energy crisis. ...- Charting the Global Economy: Factory activity sags on inflationGlobal economic activity is slowing, with manufacturing contracting in many regions due to persistent inflation and the ongoing energy crun...
- How Asia-Pacific is fighting a fuel shock that could get worseAsian nations are grappling with prolonged energy supply strains due to the Middle East conflict, prompting governments to implement costly...
- Rice has become a major crisis point for the Japanese government and people — here's what’s happeningRice is getting too expensive in Japan. Many people can’t afford it, and it’s becoming a big problem. The government is trying to fix it, b...
- Action plans for banana, mangoes exports among 20 agricultural products in works“We have identified 20 products. At present, India’s share is low in global exports. We are working on a detailed action for all these prod...
- US, EU flay India's rice export curbsAt a Committee on Agriculture meeting at the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Wednesday, Japan, Australia, Brazil, the EU, the UK and the ...
- Rice ban export is regulation rather than restriction for food security: India to WTO's agri committee meetIndia has defended its export ban on rice, stating that it is a regulation rather than a restriction and is necessary for the food security...
- India faces heat at WTO over rice export curbsAt a meeting on Thursday, the United States, the European Union and Senegal posed questions about the decision's adverse effect on global m...
- India supplies another 40,000 metric tonnes of diesel to crisis-hit Sri LankaOn Friday, the mission here said that an Indian ship laden with urgent relief supplies like rice, medicines and milk powder for the people ...
- Lanka crisis: India, Japan to provide relief supplies as threat of severe food shortage loomsAn Indian ship laden with urgent relief supplies like rice, medicines and milk powder for the people of crisis-hit Sri Lanka is scheduled t...
- Pricey rice to feed on shortage-hit worldThe 2008-09 global rice market is likely to remain tight, with higher overall consumption pushing up prices for the commodity despite an es...
- Japan announces $ 50 mn in food aid for developing nationsJapan announced Friday it will provide $50 million in new emergency food aid to help developing countries cope with the impact of soaring f...
- G8 foreign ministers open meet in JapanForeign ministers of the Group of Eight rich nations opened two days of talks in Japan Thursday set to focus on the North Korean and Irania...
- G8 foreign ministers gather for talks on NKorea, IranForeign ministers of the Group of Eight rich nations gathered Thursday in Japan in the shadow of North Korea, which was expected to give a ...
- World looks to Japan's rice mountain to ease crisisWorld leaders looking for ways to ease global food shortages may have found one answer in warehouses dotted around Japan where a rice mount...
- Myanmar crisis not a matter of politics: RiceUS Secretary of State Condolezza Rice on Wednesday urged cyclone-hit Myanmar to admit international disaster relief, saying it was a humani...
- Philippine rice tender fails with only 1 bidderThe Philippine government failed to buy rice Monday after a tender to increase its buffer stock attracted only one bidder, highlighting glo...
- ADB to meet amid food crisis, growing povertyThe Asian Development Bank holds its annual meeting this weekend reeling from a global food crisis that has led to stinging criticism of it...
- Food crisis sparks role reversal in WTOThe food crisis is bringing about a role reversal in the World Trade Organization: traditionally liberal major food exporters are now impos...
- Forget Bear Stearns, inflation is the real riskPrice increase of rice, the staple food for about 3 billion people, to a record last week, is creating a crisis.
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