L'Express (Port Louis)
25 April 2008
Rice prices in Thailand, the world's top exporter, surged to $1,000 a tonne yesterday as concerns about food security first triggered by a handful of Asian export bans spread as far as the United States. This week's 5 % jump takes prices to nearly three times their level at the start of the year, intensifying fears of social unrest in Asia as millions of the region's poor find themselves ...
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