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Rice soars to two-year high in Asia
Bloomberg News, Published on 11/07/2023
» Rice prices in Asia have surged to the highest level in more than two years as importers build up stockpiles on fears that the onset of El Niño will parch plantations and damage crops.
Rice glut will be put to test with El Niño’s return
Bloomberg News, Published on 15/06/2023
» The world is awash in rice with global stockpiles at close to record levels. El Niño’s arrival will put those reserves to the test.
Higher sugar prices pose new threat to food inflation
Bloomberg News, Published on 30/03/2023
» Sugar, consumed in everything from chocolate to fizzy drinks and baked products, is becoming ever more expensive, raising costs for the industry and keeping up pressure on global food inflation.
Canned-tuna giant Thai Union may exit Red Lobster chain
Bloomberg News, Published on 10/03/2023
» Thai Union Group Public Company Limited, one of the world’s biggest makers of canned tuna, is considering an exit from its loss-making Red Lobster unit less than three years after boosting its stake in the United States restaurant chain.
World’s food supply faces new threat
Bloomberg News, Published on 03/08/2022
» Rice could emerge as the next challenge for global food supply as a shortage of rain in parts of India, by far the world’s biggest exporter, has caused planting area to shrink to the smallest in about three years.
Crisis to crisis: What Asia learned from the financial chaos of 1997
Bloomberg News, Published on 02/07/2022
» Twenty-five years ago this month marked the beginning of economic, political and financial market turmoil that would become known as the Asian Financial Crisis. Currencies and stock markets tumbled. Governments were overthrown. Poverty rates soared.
50 costliest places for expats to live, work
Bloomberg News, Published on 29/06/2022
» Hong Kong is the world’s most expensive place for employees sent abroad to work, according to a new study comparing the prices of 200 goods and products in more than 400 cities.
Palm oil soars on Indonesia ban in risk to global food inflation
Bloomberg News, Published on 25/04/2022
» Palm oil rallied after top producer Indonesia said it will ban all exports of cooking oil, a surprise move that threatens to worsen global food inflation and aggravate volatility in crop markets still reeling from the war.
Pork shortage prompts switch to chicken on restaurant menus
Bloomberg News, Published on 12/01/2022
» Demand for chicken is soaring as more diners opt for the meat, amid a severe shortage of pork that has seen prices double.
Pork exports soar as neighbours reel from deadly disease
Bloomberg News, Published on 15/03/2021
» Thailand’s pork industry is bringing home the bacon after a deadly pig-killing disease wiped out millions of hogs across Asia.