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 billi... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
The Australian Pakistan's parallel courts proposal 'farcical' | ATTEMPTS to reinstate Pakistan's anti-Musharraf judges approached high farce yesterday when proposals were mooted for parallel supreme courts as the only way out of the impasse. | With another deadl... (photo: AP/Anjum Naveed)
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 isol... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo) BangkokCrisisMyanmarPhotosRice
Khaleej Times UAE rice importers call for 25 pct subsidy | ABU DHABI - Rice importers in the United Arab Emirates are demanding at least a 25 percent subsidy for rice as international prices continue to rise and stocks come und... (photo: WN / patricia) EconomyFoodPhotosTradeUAE
TVNZ Restaurant cooks for Myanmar cause May 11, 2008 6:35 PM | Donations have been pouring in from around the globe for the deepening crisis in Myanmar but it's not just collection buckets that are helping to r... (photo: Creative Commons / /) FoodHealthPhotosSocietyWeekend
Knox News Johnson: Spoiled by cheap food | High food prices are killing people - literally. At least five people died in Somalia last week when violent protests erupted over rising food prices and a collapsing c... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo) FoodKillingPhotosPricesSomalia
