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Rice

Energy & Commodities

World’s biggest rice buyer Philippines to prolong import ban

Indonesia’s Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the mainboard-listed company’s earlier acquittal in a graft case involving palm oil export permits.
Companies & Markets
BROKERS’ TAKE

Wilmar closes 1.4% down on corruption verdict; RHB downgrades stock to ‘sell’

The world will reap a record rice harvest of about 541 million tonnes in 2025 to 2026.
Opinion & Features

Rice can feed the world – even with fewer farmers

Workers harvesting rice in Thailand using their sickles, before the threshing and winnowing. With climate change, rising sea levels are threatening rice fields and the region’s supply of the grain will come under more pressure.
Energy & Commodities

Thailand to meet this year's rice export target by focusing on strong markets

A rice mill employee serves a customer in Tokyo, Japan, July 18, 2025. Under a WTO “minimum access” framework introduced in 1995, Japan imports about 770,000 metric tons of rice tariff-free every year. Last fiscal year, the US accounted for 45 per cent of the total.
International

Japan vows more US rice imports within tariff-free quota

US President Donald Trump’s comments on social media - over what he called Japan’s reluctance to accept US rice exports - came after his top economic advisor separately signalled plans to finalise deals with countries in the coming days.
International

Trump threatens tariffs on Japan over rice exports

Some 10,600 metric tons of staple rice, which is consumed at meals, were imported by companies such as trading firms and wholesalers despite high levies.
Consumer & Healthcare

Japan private-sector rice imports soar in May

Renewed rise in food prices, particularly a 90 per cent spike in the price of rice, is pushing up not just headline but underlying inflation, which is typically influenced mostly by improvements in the economy and a tight job market, Kazuo Ueda said.
Consumer & Healthcare

Japan curry shops see record bankruptcies as rice prices soar

Philippines is facing a 17 per cent duty on its goods to the US, the lowest rate in South-east Asia – after Singapore – under US President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff agenda.
ASEAN Business

Philippines eyes India, Thailand rice to cut Vietnam reliance

Japan's government will sell 300,000 metric tons of stockpiled rice via discretionary contracts to retailers, the farm ministry said.
International

Japan aims to slash stockpiled rice prices to 2,000 yen per 5kg: farm ministry

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