Surging food prices bite across Asia
From the rice paddies of Asia to the wheat fields
of Australia, the soaring price of food is breaking the budgets of
the poor and raising the spectres of hunger and unrest, experts
warn.
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Agencies rush emergency aid to Myanmar cyclone victims
Aid agencies Monday rushed emergency food and
water into Myanmar after a cyclone tore into the southwest of the
impoverished nation, killing more than 350 people and leaving tens
of thousands homeless.
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Bombs wound 16 in Thai south
Sixteen people including three girls were
wounded in two separate bomb blasts among the latest separatist
violence in insurgency-wracked southern Thailand, police said
Monday.
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