Asian leaders' rice-cartel plan goes against grain | Until last week, the next oil - the crucial resource growing ever scarcer and prompting desperate behavior to ensure supplies - was water. Turns out, it's rice. | That's at least what some Asian lea... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)Ohio
Local man honored: Helped U.S. in WWII | For the half century or so he has lived in Seattle, Mac Shin didn't want to draw much attention to his collaboration and friendship with Ho Chi Minh, the revolutionary father of Vietnamese independe... (photo: Other Service / -)Seattle Post
Genetically modified crops get mixed response in Asia | A researcher inspects rice specimens inside a Philippines rice gene bank in Los Banos, south of Manila on May 2. With food prices hitting record highs the debate in Asia about whether genetically mo... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo)Turkish Press AsiaCropsFoodPhilippinesPhotos
Johnson: Spoiled by cheap food | High food prices are killing people - literally. At least five people died in Somalia last week when violent protests erupted over rising food prices and a collapsing currency. The U.N. Food and Agr... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo)Knox News FoodKillingPhotosPricesSomalia
