GLOBAL: Export controls curtail aid for hungry neighbours IRINnews web | Photo: Abdullah Shaheen/IRIN JOHANNESBURG, - Government attempts to control food supplies to ensure that their people have enough to eat are hampering efforts by the World Food Programme (WFP) to source cheap food for the hungry. | The UN agency has been trying to reduce costs by procuring foo...
Kuan Yew: Asean will be like EU The Star | SINGAPORE: Former Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew predicted that the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) eventually would allow people and money to move freely within the region like the European Union (EU). | 'It may take 50 years, 100 years, I don’t know, but that’s the futu...
How to make a bad crisis worse International Herald Tribune | : The crisis over the rising cost of food has sparked a flurry of contradictory, if not inane, responses in Asia - as elsewhere - that will do nothing to stabilize prices in the short term or lead to higher production in the long term. All they do ...
Kuan Yew: Asean will be like EU The Star | SINGAPORE: Former Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew predicted that the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) eventually would allow people and money to move freely within the region like the European Union (EU). | 'It may take 50 y...
Rice exporters talk of cartel to control prices The Washington Times | MANILA (AP) - A billion poor people in Asia require food aid and sound fiscal policies to help them cope with skyrocketing food prices, the Asian Development Bank said yesterday as four rice-exporting nations prepared to discuss a proposed cartel t...
Asian rice market plunges into uncertainty ahead of meeting on possible cartel San Diego MANILA, Philippines - A billion poor people in Asia require food aid and sound fiscal policies to help them cope with skyrocketing food prices, the Asian Development Bank said Monday. Four rice-exporting nations meanwhile prepared to discuss a propos...
Asian rice market plunges into uncertainty ahead of meeting on possible cartel International Herald Tribune | : Asia's rice market plunged into uncertainty Monday as the world's biggest importer failed in an attempt to boost its stocks and four rice-exporting nations prepared to discuss a proposed cartel to control the staple grain. | Prices have more than...
ASEAN committed to free trade pact with Australia, NZ: minister Turkish Press | US Trade Representative Susan Schwab, seen in February in Washington DC. ASEAN was showing strong commitment to try to wrap up negotiations on a free trade pact between the regional grouping, Australia and New Zealand, Australian Trade Minister Sim...
Thailand proposes Opec-style cartel for exporters of rice The Independent | In an attempt to halt the soaring rice price crisis confronting Asia, a number of regional nations have proposed setting up an Opec-style cartel for exporters of the staple on which billions of people depend every day. | At a meeting of Asian natio...
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Thailand proposes Opec-style cartel for exporters of rice The Independent | In an attempt to halt the soaring rice price crisis confronting Asia, a number of regional nations have proposed setting up an Opec-style cartel for exporters of the staple on wh...
Rice price overshadow Southeast Asian trade ministers meeting Gulf News | Nusa Dua, Indonesia: Southeast Asian trade ministers met yesterday for talks on how to respond to soaring rice prices, after US President George W. Bush proposed $770 million in ...
Thailand considers starting 5-nation rice cartel International Herald Tribune | : The prime minister of Thailand, Samak Sundaravej, said Wednesday that his government would try to create a cartel of rice-producing countries in partnership with Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos. | "We don't aspire to be like OPEC, but we hope...
Ban creates food task force, urges end to export curbs Daily Star Lebanon | By Agence France Presse (AFP) | Wednesday, April 30, 2008 | William French | Agence France Press | | BERN: UN head Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday ordered a top level task force to take on the global crisis caused by rising food prices and urged key ...
UN chief orders task force to tackle food crisis Turkish Press | A prospective Indian buyer checks the quality of wheat grain at a wholesale grain market in New Delhi on April 24. United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced he was forming a UN task force on the food crisis, bringing together heads of ...
Asian leaders' rice-cartel plan goes against grain Ohio | Until last week, the next oil - the crucial resource growing ever scarcer and prompting desperate behavior to ensure supplies - was water. Turns out, it's rice. | That's at least what some Asian leaders think. Hence a plan in Southeast Asia to create an OPEC-like cartel to manage rice supplies amid record prices. Thailand and Vietnam account for ...
