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The bitter taste of rising food prices

Asia News Network writers discuss the repercussions of soaring food prices. Here are excerpts.

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Food ministry must do better to control prices of rice

Editorial
The Daily Star, Bangladesh

The Food Ministry has clearly a lot to answer for, its failure to control prices of food, especially rice, being prominent among them.
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