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 Manila Times
Transport groups to hold strike; govt ready By Nora O. Gamolo, Senior Desk Editor and Ruben D. Manahan 4TH and James Konstantin Galvez, Reporters | Transport groups led by the 200,000-member Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng Tsuper at Opereytor Nati... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo)The Manila Times
PASG seizes smuggled sugar By William B. Depasupil, Reporter | SOME 22,000 sacks of smuggled imported sugar worth P30 million were uncovered by the Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group (PASG)in Meycauayan, Bulacan. | The PASG head... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo)The Manila Times JusticeManilaPhilippinesPhotosSugar
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)Canada Dot Com BangkokCrisisMyanmarPhotosRice
NFA rice worth P6M 'missing' in Maguindanao | GENERAL SANTOS CITY: President Gloria Arroyo has ordered the National Food Authority (NFA) in Manila to investigate the alleged loss of nine truckloads of government ri... (photo: WN / Janice Sabnal)The Manila Times ArroyoEconomyFoodNfaPhotos
