Asia Cambodia & Rice Brides and other exports.
I belong to news groups and this came in today. When I heard that they were going to stop the export of rice from Cambodia, just like the export of brides, it seemed to be a knee jerk reaction fueled by the press, which really, I think needs to take a look at what they are doing.
In Cambodia inflation is going through the roof on everything it seems but rice, and the talk about it I thought for sure was going to cause a run on it. I do really hope that some rich people bought some rice to speculate on and got burned instead of the little guy for a change.
The bride’s thing had too affected legitimate people more than the marriage brokers. I know for a fact that days after the announcement that people that wanted to get married were being told Just leave Cambodia. The press was only pointing out a problem with Korea mail order brides that were basically as I understand it long time leases on sexy domestic engineers more than marriages. The marriages to other places I have not heard of a problem I know a few couples that got married and they are all very happy, some living in the west getting educations and living much better than they would be living here, and the couples are more importantly truly in love! I love happy endings!
2008-05-26 14:59:15
Cambodian government ends 2-month ban on rice exports
The Cambodian government said it will resume rice exports after its two-month ban came to an end Monday.
Prime Minister Hun Sen said there was no rice shortage in Cambodia and that the ban, imposed March 26 to ensure a stable supply of the country's staple food, had helped stabilize domestic prices.
Beginning Tuesday, rice exports can be resumed for some 1 million tons of milled rice Cambodia has in excess of its needs for domestic consumption, he said.
Cambodia produced a surplus of nearly 1.6 million tons of milled rice from last year's farming season, he said. But he added that exports must not exceed the total amount of surplus until the new harvesting season begins in December.
Hun Sen said that more than 500,000 tons had already been exported before he imposed the two-month ban.
The export ban primarily stopped rice from flowing to neighboring Thailand and Vietnam. Since the end of the harvest early this year, Cambodian farmers living in provinces bordering the two countries have been selling rice in large quantities across the borders, attracted by high prices.
In Phnom Penh markets over the weekend, a kilo of low-grade rice was selling for between 1,800 riel (US$0.45; EURO.29) and 2,000 riel (US$0.50; EURO.32), little changed from before when the ban was imposed. Earlier this year, rice of this quality cost about 1,300 riel (US$0.30; EURO 0.19) a kilo.
Cambodia is a minor rice exporter, shipping about 450,000 tons of milled rice last year, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture estimate. Neighboring Thailand exported 8.5 million tons, it said.
Hun Sen's government has also advocated creation of a cartel of rice-exporting countries with Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. But the idea appeared stalled after Thailand dropped out.
In Cambodia inflation is going through the roof on everything it seems but rice, and the talk about it I thought for sure was going to cause a run on it. I do really hope that some rich people bought some rice to speculate on and got burned instead of the little guy for a change.
The bride’s thing had too affected legitimate people more than the marriage brokers. I know for a fact that days after the announcement that people that wanted to get married were being told Just leave Cambodia. The press was only pointing out a problem with Korea mail order brides that were basically as I understand it long time leases on sexy domestic engineers more than marriages. The marriages to other places I have not heard of a problem I know a few couples that got married and they are all very happy, some living in the west getting educations and living much better than they would be living here, and the couples are more importantly truly in love! I love happy endings!
2008-05-26 14:59:15
Cambodian government ends 2-month ban on rice exports
The Cambodian government said it will resume rice exports after its two-month ban came to an end Monday.
Prime Minister Hun Sen said there was no rice shortage in Cambodia and that the ban, imposed March 26 to ensure a stable supply of the country's staple food, had helped stabilize domestic prices.
Beginning Tuesday, rice exports can be resumed for some 1 million tons of milled rice Cambodia has in excess of its needs for domestic consumption, he said.
Cambodia produced a surplus of nearly 1.6 million tons of milled rice from last year's farming season, he said. But he added that exports must not exceed the total amount of surplus until the new harvesting season begins in December.
Hun Sen said that more than 500,000 tons had already been exported before he imposed the two-month ban.
The export ban primarily stopped rice from flowing to neighboring Thailand and Vietnam. Since the end of the harvest early this year, Cambodian farmers living in provinces bordering the two countries have been selling rice in large quantities across the borders, attracted by high prices.
In Phnom Penh markets over the weekend, a kilo of low-grade rice was selling for between 1,800 riel (US$0.45; EURO.29) and 2,000 riel (US$0.50; EURO.32), little changed from before when the ban was imposed. Earlier this year, rice of this quality cost about 1,300 riel (US$0.30; EURO 0.19) a kilo.
Cambodia is a minor rice exporter, shipping about 450,000 tons of milled rice last year, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture estimate. Neighboring Thailand exported 8.5 million tons, it said.
Hun Sen's government has also advocated creation of a cartel of rice-exporting countries with Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. But the idea appeared stalled after Thailand dropped out.
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