The Manila Times Surging food prices bite across Asia From the rice paddies of Asia to the wheat fields of Australia, the soaring prices of food are breaking the budgets of the poor and raising the specters of hunger and unrest, experts warn. A billion... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
Canada Dot Com Rice crisis a 'silent tsunami' BANGKOK - When cyclone Nargis swept through the Irrawaddy Delta, it shattered both Myanmar's famed rice bowl as well as any hope Asia's rice crisis might abate anytime soon. It's not that the isolated... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo) BangkokCrisisMyanmarPhotosRice
The Australian Tear down Burma's bamboo curtain Thousands more will die if aid does not start flowing THERE seems to be no underestimating the brutality of Burma's regime as millions of people struggle to stay alive in... (photo: AP / ) BurmaDisasterPhotosSocietyUN
Lexington Herald-Leader Centering on healthy pregnancies MADISONVILLE -- As they arrive, the women step on a scale and then take their own blood pressure. Some of them can still hide the baby growing inside; others have the... (photo: Public Domain Photo) DiseaseHealthPhotosSocietyWomen
The Australian Grief is compounded by desperation BURMA'S great Irrawaddy river runs flat and muddy. It twines and forks through kilometres of rich delta and has always given nurture and good fortune to the people of... (photo: US Marine Corp / Ezekiel R. Kitandwe) AidBurmaDisasterPhotosSociety
