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Bid to break the jinx lies in a bottle of ketchup
Business, Reuters, Published on 11/02/2015
» TOKYO: For Tokyo-based condiments maker Kagome Co Ltd, and perhaps for Japan's government, the challenge of breaking with a decade and a half of deflation boils down to the price of a bottle of ketchup.
Consumerism booms as Cambodia embraces once-forbidden capitalism
Published on 01/10/2014
» PHNOM PENH — Chy Sila has come a long way since he invested his $500 life savings in a small shop in Cambodia's capital to sell bootleg music and pirated movies.
Malaysia's once-nomadic Penan caught between two worlds
AFP, Published on 11/12/2013
» Through eons spent roaming Borneo's rainforests, Malaysia's Penan people became supremely adapted to surviving, and thriving, in the wild.
China to buy 1 million tonnes of Thai rice
Published on 11/10/2013
» China has agreed to buy one million tonnes of Thai rice over the next five years, Deputy Commerce Minister Yanyong Phuangrach said on Friday.
Cambodia exporters shrug off Thai rice price cut
Published on 21/06/2013
» The Thai government's decision to lower the guaranteed price of rice to Thai farmers will not affect Cambodian rice exports, according to Sok David, vice president of Golden Rice Cambodia in Phnom Penh.
Global rice glut set to grow
Bloomberg News, Published on 05/03/2013
» Farmers are preparing to plant a record rice crop that will boost inventories held by the world's biggest exporters to the highest ever.